Genesis 30:37 (KJV)

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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. Ge 31:9-13

chestnut 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

green poplar.{Livneh} is the white poplar, so called from the whiteness of its leaves, bark, and wood, from {lavan} to be white. hasel.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.

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