Genesis 30:38 - Exposition

And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flecks in the gutters ( רִחָטִים ; literally, the canals or channels through which the water ran , from a root signifying to run) in the watering troughs ( שִׁקֲתוֹת , i . e . the troughs which contained the water, to which the animals approached) when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive (literally, and they became warm, in the sense expressed in the A . V .) when they cams to drink —this was Jacob's first artifice to overreach Laban.