Igitur quando primo tempore ascendebantur oves, ponebat Jacob virgas in canalibus aquarum ante oculos arietum et ovium, ut in earum contemplatione conciperent:
So when the ewes went first to ram, Jacob put the rods in the troughs of water before the eyes of the rams, and of the ewes, that they might conceive while they were looking upon them.
Ergo quando primo tempore oves ascende, Iacobo pone virgas in canales de aquas ante oculos de arietis et de oves, ut in illas contemplatione concipe: