Genesis 30:17 - Prayer Tents

Genesis 30

The Sons of Jacob

30Now when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she became jealous of her sister; and she said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else I die."H7354H7200H3205H3290H7354H7065H269H559H3290H3051H1121H369H41912Then Jacob's anger burned against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"H3290H639H2734H7354H559H430H4513H6529H9903And she said, "Here is my maid Bilhah, go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, that through her I too may have children."H559H519H1090H935H3205H1290H11294So she gave him her maid Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.H5414H1090H8198H802H3290H9355And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.H1090H2029H3205H3290H11216Then Rachel said, "God has vindicated me, and has indeed heard my voice and has given me a son." Therefore she named him Dan.H7354H559H430H1777H8085H6963H5414H1121H7121H8034H18357And Rachel's maid Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.H1090H7354H8198H2029H3205H3290H8145H11218So Rachel said, "With mighty wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, [and] I have indeed prevailed." And she named him Naphtali.H7354H559H430H5319H6617H269H3201H7121H8034H53219When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, she took her maid Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.H3812H7200H5975H3205H3947H2153H8198H5414H3290H80210And Leah's maid Zilpah bore Jacob a son.H2153H3812H8198H3205H3290H112111Then Leah said, "How fortunate!" So she named him Gad.H3812H559H1409H935H7121H8034H141012And Leah's maid Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.H2153H3812H8198H3205H3290H8145H112113Then Leah said, "Happy am I! For women will call me happy." So she named him Asher.H3812H559H837H1323H833H7121H8034H83614Now in the days of wheat harvest Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."H7205H3212H3117H2406H7105H4672H1736H7704H935H517H3812H7354H559H3812H5414H1121H173615But she said to her, "Is it a small matter for you to take my husband? And would you take my son's mandrakes also?" So Rachel said, "Therefore he may lie with you tonight in return for your son's mandrakes."H559H4592H3947H376H3947H1121H1736H7354H559H7901H3915H8478H1121H173616When Jacob came in from the field in the evening, then Leah went out to meet him and said, "You must come in to me, for I have surely hired you with my son's mandrakes." So he lay with her that night.H3290H935H7704H6153H3812H3318H7125H559H935H7936H7936H1121H1736H7901H391517And God gave heed to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.H430H8085H3812H2029H3205H3290H2549H112118Then Leah said, "God has given me my wages, because I gave my maid to my husband." So she named him Issachar.H3812H559H430H5414H7939H834H5414H8198H376H7121H8034H348519And Leah conceived again and bore a sixth son to Jacob.H3812H2029H3205H3290H8345H112120Then Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good gift; now my husband will dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons." So she named him Zebulun.H3812H559H430H2064H2896H2065H6471H376H2082H3205H8337H1121H7121H8034H207421And afterward she bore a daughter and named her Dinah.H310H3205H1323H7121H8034H178322Then God remembered Rachel, and God gave heed to her and opened her womb.H430H2142H7354H430H8085H6605H735823So she conceived and bore a son and said, "God has taken away my reproach."H2029H3205H1121H559H430H622H278124And she named him Joseph, saying, "May the LORD give me another son."H7121H8034H3130H559H3068H3254H312H1121

Jacob Prospers

25Now it came about when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my own place and to my own country.H7354H3205H3130H3290H559H3837H7971H3212H4725H77626"Give [me] my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me depart; for you yourself know my service which I have rendered you."H5414H802H3206H2004H5647H3212H3045H5656H564727But Laban said to him, "If now it pleases you, [stay with me;] I have divined that the LORD has blessed me on your account."H3837H559H4672H2580H5869H5172H3068H1288H155828And he continued, "Name me your wages, and I will give it."H559H5344H7939H541429But he said to him, "You yourself know how I have served you and how your cattle have fared with me.H559H3045H834H5647H834H473530"For you had little before I came, and it has increased to a multitude; and the LORD has blessed you wherever I turned. But now, when shall I provide for my own household also?"H4592H6440H6555H7230H3068H1288H7272H4970H6213H100431So he said, "What shall I give you?" And Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything. If you will do this [one] thing for me, I will again pasture [and] keep your flock:H559H5414H3290H559H5414H3972H6213H1697H7725H7462H8104H662932let me pass through your entire flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted sheep, and every black one among the lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and [such] shall be my wages.H5674H6629H3117H5493H5348H2921H7716H2345H7716H3775H2921H5348H5795H793933"So my honesty will answer for me later, when you come concerning my wages. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and black among the lambs, [if found] with me, will be considered stolen."H6666H6030H3117H4279H935H7939H6440H3605H5348H2921H5795H2345H3775H158934And Laban said, "Good, let it be according to your word."H3837H559H3863H169735So he removed on that day the striped and spotted male goats and all the speckled and spotted female goats, every one with white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the care of his sons.H5493H3117H8495H6124H2921H5795H5348H2921H3836H2345H3775H5414H3027H112136And he put [a distance of] three days' journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.H7760H7969H3117H1870H3290H3290H7462H3498H3837H662937Then Jacob took fresh rods of poplar and almond and plane trees, and peeled white stripes in them, exposing the white which [was] in the rods.H3290H3947H4731H3892H3839H3869H6196H6478H3836H6479H3836H4286H473138And he set the rods which he had peeled in front of the flocks in the gutters, [even] in the watering troughs, where the flocks came to drink; and they mated when they came to drink.H3322H4731H6478H5227H6629H7298H4325H8268H6629H935H8354H3179H935H835439So the flocks mated by the rods, and the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted.H6629H3179H4731H3205H6629H6124H5348H292140And Jacob separated the lambs, and made the flocks face toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban; and he put his own herds apart, and did not put them with Laban's flock.H3290H6504H3775H5414H6440H6629H413H6124H2345H6629H3837H7896H5739H7896H3837H662941Moreover, it came about whenever the stronger of the flock were mating, that Jacob would place the rods in the sight of the flock in the gutters, so that they might mate by the rods;H7194H6629H3179H3290H7760H4731H5869H6629H7298H3179H473142but when the flock was feeble, he did not put [them] in; so the feebler were Laban's and the stronger Jacob's.H6629H5848H7760H5848H3837H7194H329043So the man became exceedingly prosperous, and had large flocks and female and male servants and camels and donkeys.H376H6555H3966H3966H7227H6629H8198H5650H1581H2543