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Genesis 30
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30WHEN RACHEL saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister, and said to Jacob, Give me children, or else I will die!H7354H7200H3205H3290H7354H7065H269H559H3290H3051H1121H369H4191 2And Jacob became very angry with Rachel and he said, Am I in God's stead, Who has denied you children?H3290H639H2734H7354H559H430H4513H6529H990 3And she said, See here, take my maid Bilhah and have intercourse with her; and [when the baby comes] she shall deliver it upon my knees, that I by her may also have children.H559H519H1090H935H3205H1290H1129 4And she gave him Bilhah her maid as a [secondary] wife, and Jacob had intercourse with her.H5414H1090H8198H802H3290H935 5And Bilhah became pregnant and bore Jacob a son.H1090H2029H3205H3290H1121 6And Rachel said, God has judged {and} vindicated me, and has heard my plea and has given me a son; so she named him Dan [judged].H7354H559H430H1777H8085H6963H5414H1121H7121H8034H1835 7And Bilhah, Rachel's maid, conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.H1090H7354H8198H2029H3205H3290H8145H1121 8And Rachel said, With mighty wrestlings [in prayer to God] I have struggled with my sister and have prevailed; so she named him [this second son Bilhah bore] Naphtali [struggled].H7354H559H430H5319H6617H269H3201H7121H8034H5321 9When Leah saw that she had ceased to bear, she gave Zilpah her maid to Jacob as a [secondary] wife.H3812H7200H5975H3205H3947H2153H8198H5414H3290H802 10And Zilpah, Leah's maid, bore Jacob a son.H2153H3812H8198H3205H3290H1121 11Then Leah said, Victory {and} good fortune have come; and she named him Gad [fortune].H3812H559H1409H935H7121H8034H1410 12Zilpah, Leah's maid, bore Jacob [her] second son.H2153H3812H8198H3205H3290H8145H1121 13And Leah said, I am happy, for women will call me blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied); and she named him Asher [happy].H3812H559H837H1323H833H7121H8034H836 14Now Reuben went at the time of wheat harvest and found some mandrakes (love apples) in the field and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray you, some of your son's mandrakes.H7205H3212H3117H2406H7105H4672H1736H7704H935H517H3812H7354H559H3812H5414H1121H1736 15But [Leah] answered, Is it not enough that you have taken my husband without your taking away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Jacob shall sleep with you tonight [in exchange] for your son's mandrakes.H559H4592H3947H376H3947H1121H1736H7354H559H7901H3915H8478H1121H1736 16And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him and said, You must sleep with me [tonight], for I have certainly paid your hire with my son's mandrakes. So he slept with her that night.H3290H935H7704H6153H3812H3318H7125H559H935H7936H7936H1121H1736H7901H3915 17And God heeded Leah's [prayer], and she conceived and bore Jacob [her] fifth son.H430H8085H3812H2029H3205H3290H2549H1121 18Leah said, God has given me my hire, because I have given my maid to my husband; and she called his name Issachar [hired].H3812H559H430H5414H7939H834H5414H8198H376H7121H8034H3485 19And Leah became pregnant again and bore Jacob [her] sixth son.H3812H2029H3205H3290H8345H1121 20Then Leah said, God has endowed me with a good marriage gift [for my husband]; now will he dwell with me [and regard me as his wife in reality], because I have borne him six sons; and she named him Zebulun [dwelling].H3812H559H430H2064H2896H2065H6471H376H2082H3205H8337H1121H7121H8034H2074 21Afterwards she bore a daughter and called her Dinah.H310H3205H1323H7121H8034H1783 22Then God remembered Rachel and answered her pleading and made it possible for her to have children.H430H2142H7354H430H8085H6605H7358 23And [now for the first time] she became pregnant and bore a son; and she said, God has taken away my reproach, disgrace, {and} humiliation.H2029H3205H1121H559H430H622H2781 24And she called his name Joseph [may he add] and said, May the Lord add to me another son.H7121H8034H3130H559H3068H3254H312H1121 25When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, Send me away, that I may go to my own place and country.H7354H3205H3130H3290H559H3837H7971H3212H4725H776 26Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know the work which I have done for you.H5414H802H3206H2004H5647H3212H3045H5656H5647 27And Laban said to him, If I have found favor in your sight, I pray you [do not go]; for I have learned by experience {and} from the omens in divination that the Lord has favored me with blessings on your account.H3837H559H4672H2580H5869H5172H3068H1288H1558 28He said, State your salary and I will give it.H559H5344H7939H5414 29Jacob answered him, You know how I have served you, and how your possessions, your cattle {and} sheep {and} goats, have fared with me.H559H3045H834H5647H834H4735 30For you had little before I came, and it has increased {and} multiplied abundantly; and the Lord has favored you with blessings wherever I turned. But now, when shall I provide for my own house also?H4592H6440H6555H7230H3068H1288H7272H4970H6213H1004 31[Laban] said, What shall I give you? And Jacob said, You shall not give me anything, if you will do this one thing for me [of which I am about to tell you], and I will again feed {and} take care of your flock.H559H5414H3290H559H5414H3972H6213H1697H7725H7462H8104H6629 32Let me pass through all your flock today, removing from it every speckled and spotted animal and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and such shall be my wages.H5674H6629H3117H5493H5348H2921H7716H2345H7716H3775H2921H5348H5795H7939 33So later when the matter of my wages is brought before you, my fair dealing will be evident {and} answer for me. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and black among the sheep, if found with me, shall be counted as stolen.H6666H6030H3117H4279H935H7939H6440H3605H5348H2921H5795H2345H3775H1589 34And Laban said, Good; let it be done as you say.H3837H559H3863H1697 35But that same day [Laban] removed the he-goats that were streaked and spotted and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white on it, and every black lamb, and put them in charge of his sons.H5493H3117H8495H6124H2921H5795H5348H2921H3836H2345H3775H5414H3027H1121 36And he set [a distance of] three days' journey between himself and Jacob; and Jacob was then left in care of the rest of Laban's flock.H7760H7969H3117H1870H3290H3290H7462H3498H3837H6629 37But Jacob took fresh rods of poplar and almond and plane trees and peeled white streaks in them, exposing the white in the rods.H3290H3947H4731H3892H3839H3869H6196H6478H3836H6479H3836H4286H4731 38Then he set the rods which he had peeled in front of the flocks in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. And since they bred {and} conceived when they came to drink,H3322H4731H6478H5227H6629H7298H4325H8268H6629H935H8354H3179H935H8354 39The flocks bred {and} conceived in sight of the rods and brought forth lambs {and} kids streaked, speckled, and spotted.H6629H3179H4731H3205H6629H6124H5348H2921 40Jacob separated the lambs, and [as he had done with the peeled rods] he also set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the dark in the [new] flock of Laban; and he put his own droves by themselves and did not let them breed with Laban's flock.H3290H6504H3775H5414H6440H6629H413H6124H2345H6629H3837H7896H5739H7896H3837H6629 41And whenever the stronger animals were breeding, Jacob laid the rods in the watering troughs before the eyes of the flock, that they might breed {and} conceive among the rods.H7194H6629H3179H3290H7760H4731H5869H6629H7298H3179H4731 42But when the sheep {and} goats were feeble, he omitted putting the rods there; so the feebler animals were Laban's and the stronger Jacob's.H6629H5848H7760H5848H3837H7194H3290 43Thus the man increased {and} became exceedingly rich, and had many sheep {and} goats, and maidservants, menservants, camels, and donkeys.H376H6555H3966H3966H7227H6629H8198H5650H1581H2543


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