30When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she became jealous of her sister. So she said to Jacob, "Give me children, or I'll die!"H7354H7200H3205H3290H7354H7065H269H559H3290H3051H1121H369H41912Jacob became angry with her and said, "Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?"H3290H639H2734H7354H559H430H4513H6529H9903Then she said, "Here is Bilhah, my servant. Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and I too can build a family through her."H559H519H1090H935H3205H1290H11294So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife. Jacob slept with her,H5414H1090H8198H802H3290H9355and she became pregnant and bore him a son.H1090H2029H3205H3290H11216Then Rachel said, "God has vindicated me; he has listened to my plea and given me a son." Because of this she named him Dan.H7354H559H430H1777H8085H6963H5414H1121H7121H8034H18357Rachel's servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.H1090H7354H8198H2029H3205H3290H8145H11218Then Rachel said, "I have had a great struggle with my sister, and I have won." So she named him Naphtali.H7354H559H430H5319H6617H269H3201H7121H8034H53219When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took her servant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.H3812H7200H5975H3205H3947H2153H8198H5414H3290H80210Leah's servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son.H2153H3812H8198H3205H3290H112111Then Leah said, "What good fortune!" So she named him Gad.H3812H559H1409H935H7121H8034H141012Leah's servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.H2153H3812H8198H3205H3290H8145H112113Then Leah said, "How happy I am! The women will call me happy." So she named him Asher.H3812H559H837H1323H833H7121H8034H83614During wheat harvest, Reuben went out into the fields and found some mandrake plants, which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."H7205H3212H3117H2406H7105H4672H1736H7704H935H517H3812H7354H559H3812H5414H1121H173615But she said to her, "Wasn't it enough that you took away my husband? Will you take my son's mandrakes too?" "Very well," Rachel said, "he can sleep with you tonight in return for your son's mandrakes."H559H4592H3947H376H3947H1121H1736H7354H559H7901H3915H8478H1121H173616So when Jacob came in from the fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him. "You must sleep with me," she said. "I have hired you with my son's mandrakes." So he slept with her that night.H3290H935H7704H6153H3812H3318H7125H559H935H7936H7936H1121H1736H7901H391517God listened to Leah, and she became pregnant and bore Jacob a fifth son.H430H8085H3812H2029H3205H3290H2549H112118Then Leah said, "God has rewarded me for giving my servant to my husband." So she named him Issachar.H3812H559H430H5414H7939H834H5414H8198H376H7121H8034H348519Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a sixth son.H3812H2029H3205H3290H8345H112120Then Leah said, "God has presented me with a precious gift. This time my husband will treat me with honor, because I have borne him six sons." So she named him Zebulun.H3812H559H430H2064H2896H2065H6471H376H2082H3205H8337H1121H7121H8034H207421Some time later she gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah.H310H3205H1323H7121H8034H178322Then God remembered Rachel; he listened to her and enabled her to conceive.H430H2142H7354H430H8085H6605H735823She became pregnant and gave birth to a son and said, "God has taken away my disgrace."H2029H3205H1121H559H430H622H278124She named him Joseph, and said, "May the LORD add to me another son."H7121H8034H3130H559H3068H3254H312H112125After Rachel gave birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me on my way so I can go back to my own homeland.H7354H3205H3130H3290H559H3837H7971H3212H4725H77626Give me my wives and children, for whom I have served you, and I will be on my way. You know how much work I've done for you."H5414H802H3206H2004H5647H3212H3045H5656H564727But Laban said to him, "If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you."H3837H559H4672H2580H5869H5172H3068H1288H155828He added, "Name your wages, and I will pay them."H559H5344H7939H541429Jacob said to him, "You know how I have worked for you and how your livestock has fared under my care.H559H3045H834H5647H834H473530The little you had before I came has increased greatly, and the LORD has blessed you wherever I have been. But now, when may I do something for my own household?"H4592H6440H6555H7230H3068H1288H7272H4970H6213H100431"What shall I give you?" he asked. "Don't give me anything," Jacob replied. "But if you will do this one thing for me, I will go on tending your flocks and watching over them:H559H5414H3290H559H5414H3972H6213H1697H7725H7462H8104H662932Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb and every spotted or speckled goat. They will be my wages.H5674H6629H3117H5493H5348H2921H7716H2345H7716H3775H2921H5348H5795H793933And my honesty will testify for me in the future, whenever you check on the wages you have paid me. Any goat in my possession that is not speckled or spotted, or any lamb that is not dark-colored, will be considered stolen."H6666H6030H3117H4279H935H7939H6440H3605H5348H2921H5795H2345H3775H158934"Agreed," said Laban. "Let it be as you have said."H3837H559H3863H169735That same day he removed all the male goats that were streaked or spotted, and all the speckled or spotted female goats (all that had white on them) and all the dark-colored lambs, and he placed them in the care of his sons.H5493H3117H8495H6124H2921H5795H5348H2921H3836H2345H3775H5414H3027H112136Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob continued to tend the rest of Laban's flocks.H7760H7969H3117H1870H3290H3290H7462H3498H3837H662937Jacob, however, took fresh-cut branches from poplar, almond and plane trees and made white stripes on them by peeling the bark and exposing the white inner wood of the branches.H3290H3947H4731H3892H3839H3869H6196H6478H3836H6479H3836H4286H473138Then he placed the peeled branches in all the watering troughs, so that they would be directly in front of the flocks when they came to drink. When the flocks were in heat and came to drink,H3322H4731H6478H5227H6629H7298H4325H8268H6629H935H8354H3179H935H835439they mated in front of the branches. And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.H6629H3179H4731H3205H6629H6124H5348H292140Jacob set apart the young of the flock by themselves, but made the rest face the streaked and dark-colored animals that belonged to Laban. Thus he made separate flocks for himself and did not put them with Laban's animals.H3290H6504H3775H5414H6440H6629H413H6124H2345H6629H3837H7896H5739H7896H3837H662941Whenever the stronger females were in heat, Jacob would place the branches in the troughs in front of the animals so they would mate near the branches,H7194H6629H3179H3290H7760H4731H5869H6629H7298H3179H473142but if the animals were weak, he would not place them there. So the weak animals went to Laban and the strong ones to Jacob.H6629H5848H7760H5848H3837H7194H329043In this way the man grew exceedingly prosperous and came to own large flocks, and female and male servants, and camels and donkeys.H376H6555H3966H3966H7227H6629H8198H5650H1581H2543