《圣经》（新旧约全书）

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又使自己和雅各相离三天的路程。雅各就牧养拉班其馀的羊。

And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks

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雅各拿杨树，杏树，枫树的嫩枝，将皮剥成白纹，使枝子露出白的来，

And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chestnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods

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将剥了皮的枝子，对着羊群，插在饮羊的水沟里和水槽里，羊来喝的时候，牝牡配合。

And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink

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羊对着枝子配合，就生下有纹的，有点的，有斑的来。

And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted

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雅各把羊羔分出来，使拉班的羊与这有纹和黑色的羊相对，把自己的羊另放一处，不叫他和拉班的羊混杂。

And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle

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到羊群肥壮配合的时候，雅各就把枝子插在水沟里，使羊对着枝子配合。

And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods

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只是到羊瘦弱配合的时候就不插枝子。这样，瘦弱的就归拉班，肥壮的就归雅各。

But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's

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于是雅各极其发大，得了许多的羊群，仆婢，骆驼，和驴。

And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses

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雅各听见拉班的儿子们有话说，雅各把我们父亲所有的都夺了去，并藉着我们父亲的，得了这一切的荣耀（荣耀或作财）。

And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory

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雅各见拉班的气色向他不如从前了。

And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before