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Genesis 30
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30But Rachel had not borne Jacob any children, and so she became jealous of her sister and said to Jacob, "Give me children, or I will die."H7354H7200H3205H3290H7354H7065H269H559H3290H3051H1121H369H4191
2Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, "I can't take the place of God. He is the one who keeps you from having children."H3290H639H2734H7354H559H430H4513H6529H990
3She said, "Here is my slave Bilhah; sleep with her, so that she can have a child for me. In this way I can become a mother through her."H559H519H1090H935H3205H1290H1129
4So she gave Bilhah to her husband, and he had intercourse with her.H5414H1090H8198H802H3290H935
5Bilhah became pregnant and bore Jacob a son.H1090H2029H3205H3290H1121
6Rachel said, "God has judged in my favor. He has heard my prayer and has given me a son"; so she named him Dan.H7354H559H430H1777H8085H6963H5414H1121H7121H8034H1835
7Bilhah became pregnant again and bore Jacob a second son.H1090H7354H8198H2029H3205H3290H8145H1121
8Rachel said, "I have fought a hard fight with my sister, but I have won"; so she named him Naphtali.H7354H559H430H5319H6617H269H3201H7121H8034H5321
9When Leah realized that she had stopped having children, she gave her slave Zilpah to Jacob as his wife.H3812H7200H5975H3205H3947H2153H8198H5414H3290H802
10Then Zilpah bore Jacob a son.H2153H3812H8198H3205H3290H1121
11Leah said, "I have been lucky"; so she named him Gad.H3812H559H1409H935H7121H8034H1410
12Zilpah bore Jacob another son,H2153H3812H8198H3205H3290H8145H1121
13and Leah said, "How happy I am! Now women will call me happy"; so she named him Asher.H3812H559H837H1323H833H7121H8034H836
14During the wheat harvest Reuben went into the fields and found mandrakes, which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."H7205H3212H3117H2406H7105H4672H1736H7704H935H517H3812H7354H559H3812H5414H1121H1736
15Leah answered, "Isn't it enough that you have taken away my husband? Now you are even trying to take away my son's mandrakes." Rachel said, "If you will give me your son's mandrakes, you can sleep with Jacob tonight."H559H4592H3947H376H3947H1121H1736H7354H559H7901H3915H8478H1121H1736
16When Jacob came in from the fields in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, "You are going to sleep with me tonight, because I have paid for you with my son's mandrakes." So he had intercourse with her that night.H3290H935H7704H6153H3812H3318H7125H559H935H7936H7936H1121H1736H7901H3915
17God answered Leah's prayer, and she became pregnant and bore Jacob a fifth son.H430H8085H3812H2029H3205H3290H2549H1121
18Leah said, "God has given me my reward, because I gave my slave to my husband"; so she named her son Issachar.H3812H559H430H5414H7939H834H5414H8198H376H7121H8034H3485
19Leah became pregnant again and bore Jacob a sixth son.H3812H2029H3205H3290H8345H1121
20She said, "God has given me a fine gift. Now my husband will accept me, because I have borne him six sons"; so she named him Zebulun.H3812H559H430H2064H2896H2065H6471H376H2082H3205H8337H1121H7121H8034H2074
21Later she bore a daughter, whom she named Dinah.H310H3205H1323H7121H8034H1783
22Then God remembered Rachel; he answered her prayer and made it possible for her to have children.H430H2142H7354H430H8085H6605H7358
23She became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She said, "God has taken away my disgrace by giving me a son.H2029H3205H1121H559H430H622H2781
24May the LORD give me another son"; so she named him Joseph.H7121H8034H3130H559H3068H3254H312H1121

Jacob’s Bargain with Laban

25After the birth of Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Let me go, so that I can return home.H7354H3205H3130H3290H559H3837H7971H3212H4725H776
26Give me my wives and children that I have earned by working for you, and I will leave. You know how well I have served you."H5414H802H3206H2004H5647H3212H3045H5656H5647
27Laban said to him, "Let me say this: I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you.H3837H559H4672H2580H5869H5172H3068H1288H1558
28Name your wages, and I will pay them."H559H5344H7939H5414
29Jacob answered, "You know how I have worked for you and how your flocks have prospered under my care.H559H3045H834H5647H834H4735
30The little you had before I came has grown enormously, and the LORD has blessed you wherever I went. Now it is time for me to look out for my own interests."H4592H6440H6555H7230H3068H1288H7272H4970H6213H1004
31"What shall I pay you?" Laban asked. Jacob answered, "I don't want any wages. I will continue to take care of your flocks if you agree to this suggestion:H559H5414H3290H559H5414H3972H6213H1697H7725H7462H8104H6629
32Let me go through all your flocks today and take every black lamb and every spotted or speckled young goat. That is all the wages I want.H5674H6629H3117H5493H5348H2921H7716H2345H7716H3775H2921H5348H5795H7939
33In the future you can easily find out if I have been honest. When you come to check up on my wages, if I have any goat that isn't speckled or spotted or any sheep that isn't black, you will know that it has been stolen."H6666H6030H3117H4279H935H7939H6440H3605H5348H2921H5795H2345H3775H1589
34Laban answered, "Agreed. We will do as you suggest."H3837H559H3863H1697
35But that day Laban removed the male goats that had stripes or spots and all the females that were speckled and spotted or which had white on them; he also removed all the black sheep. He put his sons in charge of them,H5493H3117H8495H6124H2921H5795H5348H2921H3836H2345H3775H5414H3027H1121
36and then went away from Jacob with this flock as far as he could travel in three days. Jacob took care of the rest of Laban's flocks.H7760H7969H3117H1870H3290H3290H7462H3498H3837H6629
37Jacob got green branches of poplar, almond, and plane trees and stripped off some of the bark so that the branches had white stripes on them.H3290H3947H4731H3892H3839H3869H6196H6478H3836H6479H3836H4286H4731
38He placed these branches in front of the flocks at their drinking troughs. He put them there, because the animals mated when they came to drink.H3322H4731H6478H5227H6629H7298H4325H8268H6629H935H8354H3179H935H8354
39So when the goats bred in front of the branches, they produced young that were streaked, speckled, and spotted.H6629H3179H4731H3205H6629H6124H5348H2921
40Jacob kept the sheep separate from the goats and made them face in the direction of the streaked and black animals of Laban's flock. In this way he built up his own flock and kept it apart from Laban's.H3290H6504H3775H5414H6440H6629H413H6124H2345H6629H3837H7896H5739H7896H3837H6629
41When the healthy animals were mating, Jacob put the branches in front of them at the drinking troughs, so that they would breed among the branches.H7194H6629H3179H3290H7760H4731H5869H6629H7298H3179H4731
42But he did not put the branches in front of the weak animals. Soon Laban had all the weak animals, and Jacob all the healthy ones.H6629H5848H7760H5848H3837H7194H3290
43In this way Jacob became very wealthy. He had many flocks, slaves, camels, and donkeys.H376H6555H3966H3966H7227H6629H8198H5650H1581H2543


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