New American Standard Bible (NASB)
Genesis 30
38 He set the rods which he had peeled in front of the flocks in the gutters, even in the watering troughs, where the flocks came to drink; and they mated when they came to drink.
39 So the flocks mated by the rods, and the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted.
40 Jacob separated the lambs, and made the flocks face toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban; and he put his own herds apart, and did not put them with Laban’s flock.
41 Moreover, whenever the stronger of the flock were mating, Jacob would place the rods in the sight of the flock in the gutters, so that they might mate by the rods;
42 but when the flock was feeble, he did not put them in; so the feebler were Laban’s and the stronger Jacob’s.
43 So the man became exceedingly prosperous, and had large flocks and female and male servants and camels and donkeys.
Genesis 31
1 Now Jacob heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, "Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s, and from what belonged to our father he has made all this wealth."
2 Jacob saw the attitude of Laban, and behold, it was not friendly toward him as formerly.
3 Then the Lord said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers and to your relatives, and I will be with you."
4 So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to his flock in the field,
5 and said to them, "I see your father’s attitude, that it is not friendly toward me as formerly, but the God of my father has been with me.
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