Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'rods' occurs 16 times in the standard works.

12 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'rods' in the standard works and contain 75% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 6 minutes to read the entire list.

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Gen. 30:37-41 (6 in 5 verses)

 30:37 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.

 30:38 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.

 30:39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.

 30:40 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.

 30:41 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.




Num. 17:6-9 (4 in 4 verses)

Ezek. 19:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 14 8 22
Gen. 6 0 6
Ex. 1 0 1
Num. 5 0 5
Deut. 0 1 1
1 Sam. 0 7 7
Ezek. 2 0 2
NT 1 0 1
BM 0 0 0
DC 1 0 1
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 16 8 24

Gen. 30:37
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.

Gen. 30:38
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.

Gen. 30:39
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.

Gen. 30:41
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.