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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