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

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.

And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drave before those other cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.

He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.

How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.