Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Gen 30:37 — And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which [was] in the rods.
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Jacob   Gen 31:9-13
green poplar   Livneh is the white poplar, so called from the whiteness of its leaves, bark, and wood, from lavan to be white.
hazel   "Jerome, Hiller, Celsius, Dr. Shaw, Bochart, and other learned men, say, that luz is not the ""hazel"" but the almond-tree, as the word denotes both in Arabic and Syriac."
chesnut tree   "The Heb. word armon, signifies ""the plane-tree,"" so called from the bark naturally peeling off, and leaving the trunk naked, as its root aram, signifies. Eze 31:8"
Correlating Passages
Jacob
Gen 31:9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given [them] to me.
Gen 31:10 And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle [were] ringstraked, speckled, and grisled.
Gen 31:11 And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, [saying], Jacob: And I said, Here [am] I.
Gen 31:12 And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle [are] ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
Gen 31:13 I [am] the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, [and] where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.
chesnut tree
Eze 31:8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.

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Scott, Thomas. "Genesis 30:37," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Gen/30/37.html>.

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