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Genesis 30
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Rachel’s Children by Bilhah

30Rachel noticed that she was not bearing children for Jacob, so out of envy of her sister Leah, she said to Jacob, "If you don't give me sons, I'm going to die!"H7354H7200H3205H3290H7354H7065H269H559H3290H3051H1121H369H4191
2That made Jacob angry with Rachel, so he asked in response, "Can I take God's place, who has withheld from you fruit of the womb?"H3290H639H2734H7354H559H430H4513H6529H990
3But she responded, "Here's my handmaid Bilhah. Go have sex with her. She can bear them on my knees so I can have children through her."H559H519H1090H935H3205H1290H1129
4So she gave Jacob her woman servant Bilhah to be his mistress, and Jacob had sex with her.H5414H1090H8198H802H3290H935
5Bilhah conceived and bore a son for Jacob.H1090H2029H3205H3290H1121
6Then Rachel said, "God has judged me and has heard my voice. He gave me a son." Therefore, she named him Dan.H7354H559H430H1777H8085H6963H5414H1121H7121H8034H1835
7Rachel's servant conceived again and bore a second son for Jacob,H1090H7354H8198H2029H3205H3290H8145H1121
8so Rachel said, "I've been through a mighty struggle with my sister and won." She named him Naphtali.H7354H559H430H5319H6617H269H3201H7121H8034H5321
9When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing children, she took her woman servant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a mistress.H3812H7200H5975H3205H3947H2153H8198H5414H3290H802
10Leah's servant Zilpah bore a son to Jacob,H2153H3812H8198H3205H3290H1121
11and Leah remarked, "How fortunate!" So she named him Gad.H3812H559H1409H935H7121H8034H1410
12Later, Leah's servant Zilpah bore a second son to Jacob.H2153H3812H8198H3205H3290H8145H1121
13She said, "How happy I am, because women will call me happy." So she named him Asher.H3812H559H837H1323H833H7121H8034H836

Jacob and the Mandrakes

14Some time later, during the wheat harvest season, Reuben went out and found some mandrakes in the field and brought them back for his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me your son's mandrakes."H7205H3212H3117H2406H7105H4672H1736H7704H935H517H3812H7354H559H3812H5414H1121H1736
15In response, Leah asked her, "Wasn't it enough that you've taken away my husband - Now you also want to take my son's mandrakes!" But Rachel replied, "Okay, let's let Jacob sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son's mandrakes."H559H4592H3947H376H3947H1121H1736H7354H559H7901H3915H8478H1121H1736
16When Jacob came from the field that evening, Leah went to meet him. Then she said, "You're having sex with me tonight. I traded my son's mandrakes for you!" So he slept with her that night.H3290H935H7704H6153H3812H3318H7125H559H935H7936H7936H1121H1736H7901H3915
17God heard what Leah had said, so she conceived and bore a fifth son for Jacob.H430H8085H3812H2029H3205H3290H2549H1121
18Then Leah said, "God has paid me for giving my servant to my husband as a mistress." So she named him Issachar.H3812H559H430H5414H7939H834H5414H8198H376H7121H8034H3485
19Later, Leah conceived again and bore a sixth son for Jacob.H3812H2029H3205H3290H8345H1121
20Then Leah said, "God has given me a good gift. This time my husband will exalt me, because I've borne him six sons." So she named him Zebulun.H3812H559H430H2064H2896H2065H6471H376H2082H3205H8337H1121H7121H8034H2074
21After that, Leah conceived, bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.H310H3205H1323H7121H8034H1783

Rachel’s Son Joseph is Born

22Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb,H430H2142H7354H430H8085H6605H7358
23so she conceived, bore a son, and remarked, "God has removed my shame."H2029H3205H1121H559H430H622H2781
24Because she had been asking, "May God add another son for me," she named him Joseph.H7121H8034H3130H559H3068H3254H312H1121

Jacob and Laban’s Livestock

25After Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me off so that I can go back to my place and country.H7354H3205H3130H3290H559H3837H7971H3212H4725H776
26Give me my wives and children for whom I've served you. Then I'll leave, since you're aware of my service with which I've served you."H5414H802H3206H2004H5647H3212H3045H5656H5647
27Then Laban responded, "If I've found favor in your sight, please stay with me, because I've learned through divination that the Lord has blessed me because of you."H3837H559H4672H2580H5869H5172H3068H1288H1558
28Name your wage," Laban added, "and I'll give it to you."H559H5344H7939H5414
29But Jacob replied to Laban, "You know how I've served you and how your cattle thrived under my care.H559H3045H834H5647H834H4735
30What you had previously was only a few head, but the herd has now multiplied, because the Lord has blessed you through my efforts. But now, when am I going to be able to provide for my own household?"H4592H6440H6555H7230H3068H1288H7272H4970H6213H1004
31"What do I have to give you?" Laban asked. Jacob responded, "You don't have to give me anything. Just do this for me: Let me tend your flock again and watch over it.H559H5414H3290H559H5414H3972H6213H1697H7725H7462H8104H6629
32Let me walk among your flocks today and remove every speckled or spotted sheep, every black lamb, and let me do the same with the speckled and spotted goats. These will be my wages.H5674H6629H3117H5493H5348H2921H7716H2345H7716H3775H2921H5348H5795H7939
33In times to come, you'll be able to verify my honesty because, when you come to check what I've earned, if you find a goat that's not speckled or spotted or a sheep that's not black, then it will have been stolen by me."H6666H6030H3117H4279H935H7939H6440H3605H5348H2921H5795H2345H3775H1589
34"Okay," Laban replied. "We'll do it the way you've asked."H3837H559H3863H1697
35That very day, Laban removed the male goats that were striped or spotted, all the female goats that were speckled or spotted - that is, every one that had white on them - and all the black lambs and placed them into the care of his sons.H5493H3117H8495H6124H2921H5795H5348H2921H3836H2345H3775H5414H3027H1121
36He sent them as far away from Jacob as a three day's journey could take them. Meanwhile, Jacob kept tending the rest of Laban's flock.H7760H7969H3117H1870H3290H3290H7462H3498H3837H6629
37Jacob took branches from white poplar trees, freshly cut almond trees, and some other trees, stripped off their bark to make white streaks, and uncovered the white part inside the branches.H3290H3947H4731H3892H3839H3869H6196H6478H3836H6479H3836H4286H4731
38Then he placed the branches that he had stripped bare in all the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. He placed the branches in front of the flock, and they went into heat as they came to drink.H3322H4731H6478H5227H6629H7298H4325H8268H6629H935H8354H3179H935H8354
39When the flocks mated in front of the branches, they would bring forth offspring that were striped, speckled, or spotted.H6629H3179H4731H3205H6629H6124H5348H2921
40Jacob kept the lambs separate, facing the striped and entirely black ones that belonged to Laban's flock. He set his own herd by itself and would not let them be with Laban's flock.H3290H6504H3775H5414H6440H6629H413H6124H2345H6629H3837H7896H5739H7896H3837H6629
41Whenever the more vigorous of the flock came into heat, Jacob would place the branches in the troughs in front of the flock to make them mate by the branches.H7194H6629H3179H3290H7760H4731H5869H6629H7298H3179H4731
42But he didn't put the branches in front of any of the feeble members of the flock. As a result, the feeble ones belonged to Laban, but the stronger ones belonged to Jacob.H6629H5848H7760H5848H3837H7194H3290
43Therefore the man prospered so much that he had large flocks, female and male servants, as well as camels and donkeys.H376H6555H3966H3966H7227H6629H8198H5650H1581H2543


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