GE-30:1  And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children,

Rachel envied

her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.

GE-30:2  And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he

said, [Am] I in

God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?

GE-30:3  And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her;

and she shall

bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.

GE-30:4  And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob

went in unto

her.

GE-30:5  And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.

GE-30:6  And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also

heard my voice,

and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.

GE-30:7  And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bare

Jacob a second

son.

GE-30:8  And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled

with my

sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.

GE-30:9  When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took

Zilpah her maid,

and gave her Jacob to wife.

GE-30:10  And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son.

GE-30:11  And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name

Gad.

GE-30:12  And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son.

GE-30:13  And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call

me blessed:

and she called his name Asher.

GE-30:14  And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and

found mandrakes in

the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel

said to Leah,

Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.

GE-30:15  And she said unto her, [Is it] a small matter that

thou hast taken

my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes also?

And Rachel

said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son's

mandrakes.

GE-30:16  And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and

Leah went out to

meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have

hired thee

with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.

GE-30:17  And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and

bare Jacob the

fifth son.

GE-30:18  And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I

have given my

maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.

GE-30:19  And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.

GE-30:20  And Leah said, God hath endued me [with] a good dowry;

now will my

husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and she

called his

name Zebulun.

GE-30:21  And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her

name Dinah.

GE-30:22  And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her,

and opened her

womb.

GE-30:23  And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath

taken away my

reproach:

GE-30:24  And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD

shall add to me

another son.

GE-30:25  And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that

Jacob said

unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and

to my

country.

GE-30:26  Give [me] my wives and my children, for whom I have

served thee, and

let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.

GE-30:27  And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found

favour in

thine eyes, [tarry: for] I have learned by experience that the

LORD hath

blessed me for thy sake.

GE-30:28  And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give

[it].

GE-30:29  And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served

thee, and how

thy cattle was with me.

GE-30:30  For [it was] little which thou hadst before I [came],

and it is

[now] increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee

since my

coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?

GE-30:31  And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said,

Thou shalt not

give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will

again feed [and]

keep thy flock.

GE-30:32  I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing

from thence all

the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among

the sheep, and

the spotted and speckled among the goats: and [of such] shall be

my hire.

GE-30:33  So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to

come, when it

shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that [is] not

speckled and

spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall

be counted

stolen with me.

GE-30:34  And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according

to thy word.

GE-30:35  And he removed that day the he goats that were

ringstreaked and

spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted,

[and] every one

that had [some] white in it, and all the brown among the sheep,

and gave

[them] into the hand of his sons.

GE-30:36  And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and

Jacob: and Jacob

fed the rest of Laban's flocks.

GE-30:37  And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the

hazel and

chestnut tree; and pilled white streaks in them, and made the

white appear

which [was] in the rods.

GE-30:38  And he set the rods which he had pilled before the

flocks in the

gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink,

that they

should conceive when they came to drink.

GE-30:39  And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought

forth cattle

ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted.

GE-30:40  And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of

the flocks

toward the ringstreaked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban;

 and he put

his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's

cattle.

GE-30:41  And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle

did conceive,

that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the

gutters, that

they might conceive among the rods.

GE-30:42  But when the cattle were feeble, he put [them] not in:

so the

feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.

GE-30:43  And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle,

 and

maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.

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