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30When Rachel realized that she wasn't having any children for Jacob, she became jealous of her sister. She told Jacob, "Give me sons or I'll die!"H7354H7200H3205H3290H7354H7065H269H559H3290H3051H1121H369H4191 2Jacob got angry with Rachel and said, "Am I God? Am I the one who refused you babies?"H3290H639H2734H7354H559H430H4513H6529H990 3Rachel said, "Here's my maid Bilhah. Sleep with her. Let her substitute for me so I can have a child through her and build a family."H559H519H1090H935H3205H1290H1129 4So she gave him her maid Bilhah for a wife and Jacob slept with her.H5414H1090H8198H802H3290H935 5Bilhah became pregnant and gave Jacob a son.H1090H2029H3205H3290H1121 6Rachel said, "God took my side and vindicated me. He listened to me and gave me a son." She named him Dan (Vindication).H7354H559H430H1777H8085H6963H5414H1121H7121H8034H1835 7Rachel's maid Bilhah became pregnant again and gave Jacob a second son.H1090H7354H8198H2029H3205H3290H8145H1121 8Rachel said, "I've been in an all-out fight with my sister—and I've won." So she named him Naphtali (Fight).H7354H559H430H5319H6617H269H3201H7121H8034H5321 9When Leah saw that she wasn't having any more children, she gave her maid Zilpah to Jacob for a wife.H3812H7200H5975H3205H3947H2153H8198H5414H3290H802 10Zilpah had a son for Jacob.H2153H3812H8198H3205H3290H1121 11Leah said, "How fortunate!" and she named him Gad (Lucky).H3812H559H1409H935H7121H8034H1410 12When Leah's maid Zilpah had a second son for Jacob,H2153H3812H8198H3205H3290H8145H1121 13Leah said, "A happy day! The women will congratulate me in my happiness." So she named him Asher (Happy).H3812H559H837H1323H833H7121H8034H836 14One day during the wheat harvest Reuben found some mandrakes in the field and brought them home to his mother Leah. Rachel asked Leah, "Could I please have some of your son's mandrakes?"H7205H3212H3117H2406H7105H4672H1736H7704H935H517H3812H7354H559H3812H5414H1121H1736 15Leah said, "Wasn't it enough that you got my husband away from me? And now you also want my son's mandrakes?" Rachel said, "All right. I'll let him sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son's love-apples."H559H4592H3947H376H3947H1121H1736H7354H559H7901H3915H8478H1121H1736 16When Jacob came home that evening from the fields, Leah was there to meet him: "Sleep with me tonight; I've bartered my son's mandrakes for a night with you." So he slept with her that night.H3290H935H7704H6153H3812H3318H7125H559H935H7936H7936H1121H1736H7901H3915 17God listened to Leah; she became pregnant and gave Jacob a fifth son.H430H8085H3812H2029H3205H3290H2549H1121 18She said, "God rewarded me for giving my maid to my husband." She named him Issachar (Bartered).H3812H559H430H5414H7939H834H5414H8198H376H7121H8034H3485 19Leah became pregnant yet again and gave Jacob a sixth son,H3812H2029H3205H3290H8345H1121 20saying, "God has given me a great gift. This time my husband will honor me with gifts—I've given him six sons!" She named him Zebulun (Honor).H3812H559H430H2064H2896H2065H6471H376H2082H3205H8337H1121H7121H8034H2074 21Last of all she had a daughter and named her Dinah.H310H3205H1323H7121H8034H1783 22And then God remembered Rachel. God listened to her and opened her womb.H430H2142H7354H430H8085H6605H7358 23She became pregnant and had a son. She said, "God has taken away my humiliation."H2029H3205H1121H559H430H622H2781 24She named him Joseph (Add), praying, "May GOD add yet another son to me."H7121H8034H3130H559H3068H3254H312H1121 25After Rachel had had Joseph, Jacob spoke to Laban, "Let me go back home.H7354H3205H3130H3290H559H3837H7971H3212H4725H776 26Give me my wives and children for whom I've served you. You know how hard I've worked for you."H5414H802H3206H2004H5647H3212H3045H5656H5647 27Laban said, "If you please, I have learned through divine inquiry that GOD has blessed me because of you."H3837H559H4672H2580H5869H5172H3068H1288H1558 28He went on, "So name your wages. I'll pay you."H559H5344H7939H5414 29Jacob replied, "You know well what my work has meant to you and how your livestock has flourished under my care.H559H3045H834H5647H834H4735 30The little you had when I arrived has increased greatly; everything I did resulted in blessings for you. Isn't it about time that I do something for my own family?"H4592H6440H6555H7230H3068H1288H7272H4970H6213H1004 31"So, what should I pay you?" Jacob said, "You don't have to pay me a thing. But how about this? I will go back to pasture and care for your flocks.H559H5414H3290H559H5414H3972H6213H1697H7725H7462H8104H6629 32Go through your entire flock today and take out every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, every spotted or speckled goat. They will be my wages.H5674H6629H3117H5493H5348H2921H7716H2345H7716H3775H2921H5348H5795H7939 33That way you can check on my honesty when you assess my wages. If you find any goat that's not speckled or spotted or a sheep that's not black, you will know that I stole it."H6666H6030H3117H4279H935H7939H6440H3605H5348H2921H5795H2345H3775H1589 34"Fair enough," said Laban. "It's a deal."H3837H559H3863H1697 35But that very day Laban removed all the mottled and spotted billy goats and all the speckled and spotted nanny-goats, every animal that had even a touch of white on it plus all the black sheep and placed them under the care of his sons.H5493H3117H8495H6124H2921H5795H5348H2921H3836H2345H3775H5414H3027H1121 36Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob. Meanwhile Jacob went on tending what was left of Laban's flock.H7760H7969H3117H1870H3290H3290H7462H3498H3837H6629 37But Jacob got fresh branches from poplar, almond, and plane trees and peeled the bark, leaving white stripes on them.H3290H3947H4731H3892H3839H3869H6196H6478H3836H6479H3836H4286H4731 38He stuck the peeled branches in front of the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. When the flocks were in heat, they came to drinkH3322H4731H6478H5227H6629H7298H4325H8268H6629H935H8354H3179H935H8354 39and mated in front of the streaked branches. Then they gave birth to young that were streaked or spotted or speckled.H6629H3179H4731H3205H6629H6124H5348H2921 40Jacob placed the ewes before the dark-colored animals of Laban. That way he got distinctive flocks for himself which he didn't mix with Laban's flocks.H3290H6504H3775H5414H6440H6629H413H6124H2345H6629H3837H7896H5739H7896H3837H6629 41And when the sturdier animals were mating, Jacob placed branches at the troughs in view of the animals so that they mated in front of the branches.H7194H6629H3179H3290H7760H4731H5869H6629H7298H3179H4731 42But he wouldn't set up the branches before the feebler animals. That way the feeble animals went to Laban and the sturdy ones to Jacob.H6629H5848H7760H5848H3837H7194H3290 43The man got richer and richer, acquiring huge flocks, lots and lots of servants, not to mention camels and donkeys.H376H6555H3966H3966H7227H6629H8198H5650H1581H2543


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