And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted.
WEB
they mated in front of the branches. And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.
YLT
and the flocks conceive at the rods, and the flock beareth ring-streaked, speckled, and spotted ones.
DBT
And the flock was ardent before the rods; and the flock brought forth ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentGenesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.
- Author
- Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
- Date
- Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)