< Genesis 30 >

1 And she saw Rachel that not she had borne children to Jacob and she was jealous Rachel of sister her and she said to Jacob give! to me children and if not [am] about to die I. 2 And it burned [the] anger of Jacob on Rachel and he said ¿ in place of God [am] I who he has withheld from you fruit of [the] womb. 3 And she said here! maidservant my Bilhah go into her so she may bear children on knees my so I may be built up also I from her. 4 And she gave to him Bilhah maidservant her to a wife and he went into her Jacob. 5 And she conceived Bilhah and she bore to Jacob a son. 6 And she said Rachel he has vindicated me God and also he has listened to voice my and he has given to me a son there-fore she called name his Dan. 7 And she conceived again and she bore Bilhah [the] maidservant of Rachel a son second to Jacob. 8 And she said Rachel wrestling of God - I have wrestled with sister my also I have prevailed and she called name his Naphtali. 9 And she saw Leah that she had stopped from bearing children and she took Zilpah maidservant her and she gave her to Jacob to a wife. 10 And she bore Zilpah [the] maidservant of Leah to Jacob a son. 11 And she said Leah (it has come good fortune *QK) and she called name his Gad. 12 And she bore Zilpah [the] maidservant of Leah a son second to Jacob. 13 And she said Leah in happiness my for they will call happy me daughters and she called name his Asher. 14 And he went Reuben in [the] days of [the] harvest of wheat and he found mandrakes in the field and he brought them to Leah mother his and she said Rachel to Leah give please to me some of [the] mandrakes of son your. 15 And she said to her ¿ small taking you husband my and to take also [the] mandrakes of son my and she said Rachel therefore he will lie with you this night for [the] mandrakes of son your. 16 And he came Jacob from the field in the evening and she went out Leah to meet him and she said into me you will come for certainly I have hired you for [the] mandrakes of son my and he lay with her in the night that. 17 And he listened God to Leah and she conceived and she bore to Jacob a son fifth. 18 And she said Leah he has given God reward my that I gave maidservant my to husband my and she called name his Issachar. 19 And she conceived again Leah and she bore a son sixth to Jacob. 20 And she said Leah he has endowed me God - me an endowment good this time he will honor me husband my for I have borne to him six sons and she called name his Zebulun. 21 And after she bore a daughter and she called name her Dinah. 22 And he remembered God Rachel and he listened to her God and he opened womb her. 23 And she conceived and she bore a son and she said he has removed God reproach my. 24 And she called name his Joseph saying may he add Yahweh to me a son another. 25 And it was just as she had borne Rachel Joseph and he said Jacob to Laban send off me so let me go to place my and to land my. 26 Give! wives my and children my whom I have served you for them so I may go for you you know service my which I have served you. 27 And he said to him Laban if please I have found favor in eyes your I have learned by divination and he has blessed me Yahweh on account of you. 28 And he said designate! wage[s] your on me so let me give [it]. 29 And he said to him you you know how I have served you and how it has been livestock your with me. 30 For a little which it be[longed] to you before me and it has increased to abundance and he has blessed Yahweh you to foot my and now when? will I work also I for own household my. 31 And he said what? will I give to you and he said Jacob not you will give to me anything if you will do for me the thing this I will return I will tend flock your I will protect [it]. 32 Let me pass in all flock your this day I will remove from there every sheep - speckled and spotted and every sheep dark among the lambs and [the] spotted and [the] speckled among the goats and it will be wage[s] my. 33 And it will testify for me righteousness my on a day in future time for you will come on wage[s] my before you all that not [is] it speckled and spotted among the goats and dark among the lambs [is] stolen it with me. 34 And he said Laban there! if let it be according to word your. 35 And he removed on the day that the male goats striped and spotted and all the female goats speckled and spotted all that white [was] on it and every dark [one] among the lambs and he gave [them] in [the] hand of sons his. 36 And he put a journey of three days between himself and between Jacob and Jacob [was] pasturing [the] flock of Laban which remained. 37 And he took for himself Jacob branch[es] of poplar freshly cut and almond and plane tree and he stripped on them strips white [the] peeling of the white [wood] which [was] on the branches. 38 And he placed the branches which he had stripped in the drinking troughs in [the] watering channels of water which they came the flock to drink to before the flock and they mated when came they to drink. 39 And they mated the flock to the branches and they bore the flock striped [ones] speckled [ones] and spotted [ones]. 40 And the lambs he separated Jacob and he set [the] faces of the flock to [the] striped and every dark [one] among [the] flock of Laban and he made for himself flocks to only him and not he put them with [the] flock of Laban. 41 And it was in all [the] being in heat of the sheep vigorous [female] and he put out Jacob the branches to [the] eyes of the sheep in the drinking troughs to mate her at the branches. 42 And when was feeble the sheep not he put [them] out and it was the enfeebled ones [belonged] to Laban and the vigorous [ones] [belonged] to Jacob. 43 And he increased the man very very and it be[longed] to him sheep many and female servants and [male] servants and camels and donkeys.

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