Gen 30
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And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and
she said to Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
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And Jacob`s anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God`s stead, who
has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?
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And she said, Behold, my maid Bilhah, go in to her; that she may bear upon my knees,
and I also may obtain children by her.
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And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in to her.
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And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.
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And Rachel said, God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me
a son: therefore called she his name Dan.
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And Bilhah Rachel`s handmaid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son.
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And Rachel said, With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed:
and she called his name Naphtali.
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When Leah saw that she had left off bearing, she took Zilpah her handmaid, and gave
her to Jacob to wife.
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And Zilpah Leah`s handmaid bare Jacob a son.
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And Leah said, Fortunate! and she called his name Gad.
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And Zilpah Leah`s handmaid bare Jacob a second son.
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And Leah said, Happy am I! for the daughters will call me happy: and she called his
name Asher.
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And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and
brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray you, of
your son`s mandrakes.
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And she said to her, Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? and
would you take away my son`s mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie
with you to-night for your son`s mandrakes.
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And Jacob came from the field in the evening, and 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. And he
lay with her that night.
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And God hearkened to Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob a fifth son.
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And Leah said, God has given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband:
and she called his name Issachar.
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And Leah conceived again, and bare a sixth son to Jacob.
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And Leah said, God has endowed me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with
me, because I have borne him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun.
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And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
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And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.
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And she conceived, and bare a son: and said, God has taken away my reproach:
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and she called his name Joseph, saying, YHWH add to me another son.
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And it came to pass, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, Send
me away, that I may go to mine own place, and to my country.
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Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go: for you
know my service wherewith I have served you.
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And Laban said to him, If now I have found favor in your eyes, [tarry]: [for] I have
divined that YHWH has blessed me for your sake.
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And he said, Appoint me your wages, and I will give it.
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And he said to him, You know how I have served you, and how your cattle have fared
with me.
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For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude;
and YHWH has blessed you wherever I turned: and now when shall I provide for mine
own house also?
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And he said, What shall I give you? And Jacob said, You shall not give me anything:
if you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.
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I will pass through all your flock to-day, removing from there every speckled and
spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among
the goats: and [of such] shall be my hire.
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So shall my righteousness answer for me hereafter, when you shall come concerning
my hire that is before you: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats,
and black among the sheep, that [if found] with me, shall be counted stolen.
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And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to your word.
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And he removed that day the he-goats that were ringstreaked and spotted, and all the
she-goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all
the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons;
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and he set three days` journey between himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of
Laban`s flocks.
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And Jacob took him rods of fresh poplar, and of the almond and of the plane-tree.
And peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
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And he set the rods which he had peeled over against the flocks in the gutters in
the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink; and they conceived when they
came to drink.
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And the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth ringstreaked,
speckled, and spotted.
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And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstreaked
and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and put
them not to Laban`s flock.
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And it came to pass, whenever the stronger of the flock did conceive, that Jacob laid
the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among
the rods;
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but when the flock were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban`s, and
the stronger Jacob`s.
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And the man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, and maid-servants and men-servants,
and camels and asses.