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 30:1  And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children,
Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me
children, or else I die.
 30:2  And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he
said, [Am] I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the
fruit of the womb?
 30:3  And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and
she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by
her.
 30:4  And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob
went in unto her.
 30:5  And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.
 30:6  And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard
my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his
name Dan.
 30:7  And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bare Jacob
a second son.
 30:8  And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled
with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name
Naphtali.
 30:9  When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah
her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
 30:10  And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son.
 30:11  And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name
Gad.
 30:12  And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son.
 30:13  And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call
me blessed: and she called his name Asher.
 30:14  And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found
mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah.
Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's
mandrakes.
 30:15  And she said unto her, [Is it] a small matter that thou
hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's
mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with
thee to night for thy son's mandrakes.
 30:16  And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and
Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me;
for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he
lay with her that night.
 30:17  And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and
bare Jacob the fifth son.
 30:18  And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I
have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name
Issachar.
 30:19  And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.
 30:20  And Leah said, God hath endued me [with] a good dowry;
now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six
sons: and she called his name Zebulun.
 30:21  And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name
Dinah.
 30:22  And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her,
and opened her womb.
 30:23  And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath
taken away my reproach:
 30:24  And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD
shall add to me another son.
 30:25  And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that
Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine
own place, and to my country.
 30:26  Give [me] my wives and my children, for whom I have
served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I
have done thee.
 30:27  And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found
favour in thine eyes, [tarry: for] I have learned by experience
that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake.
 30:28  And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give
[it].
 30:29  And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served
thee, and how thy cattle was with me.
 30:30  For [it was] little which thou hadst before I [came],
and it is [now] increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath
blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for
mine own house also?
 30:31  And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said,
Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing
for me, I will again feed [and] keep thy flock.
 30:32  I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from
thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown
cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the
goats: and [of such] shall be my hire.
 30:33  So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to
come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one
that [is] not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown
among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
 30:34  And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according
to thy word.
 30:35  And he removed that day the he goats that were
ringstreaked and spotted, and all the she goats that were
speckled and spotted, [and] every one that had [some] white in
it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave [them] into the
hand of his sons.
 30:36  And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and
Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
 30:37  And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the
hazel and chestnut tree; and pilled white streaks in them, and
made the white appear which [was] in the rods.
 30:38  And he set the rods which he had pilled before the
flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks
came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to
drink.
 30:39  And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought
forth cattle ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted.
 30:40  And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of
the flocks toward the ringstreaked, and all the brown in the
flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and
put them not unto Laban's cattle.
 30:41  And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did
conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the
cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.
 30:42  But when the cattle were feeble, he put [them] not in:
so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
 30:43  And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle,
and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.