## before the eyes of the flock ## "so that the flock could see them" ## so that they might conceive among the sticks ## "to increase the chances that they would conceive among the sticks" ## might conceive ## "might breed" or "might mate" ## among the sticks ## "in front of the sticks" ## the feebler animals ## "the weaker animals" ## so the feebler animals were Laban's, and the stronger were Jacob's. ## "So the weaker offspring belonged to Laban, while the stronger offspring belonged to Jacob." You can make this even more explicit: "So the weaker offspring did not have stripes or spots and so belonged to Laban, while the stronger offspring did have stripes or spots and so belonged to Jacob." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]]).