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30:1And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister and said to Jacob, Give me children, or else I die. Compare
30:2And Jacob's anger burned against Rachel, and he said, Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb? Compare
30:3And she said, Here is my servant Bilhah; go in to her, that she may bear upon my knees and that I also may have children through her. Compare
30:4And she gave him Bilhah her female servant as a wife, and Jacob went in to her. Compare
30:5And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son. Compare
30:6And Rachel said, God has judged me, and has also heard my voice and given me a son; therefore she called his name Dan. Compare
30:7And Bilhah Rachel's female servant conceived again and bore Jacob a second son. Compare
30:8And Rachel said, In wrestling with God, I have wrestled with my sister and have prevailed; so she called his name Naphtali. Compare
30:9Now when Leah saw that she ceased bearing, she took Zilpah her female servant and gave her to Jacob as a wife. Compare
30:10And Zilpah Leah's female servant bore Jacob a son. Compare
30:11And Leah said, How fortunate! So she called his name Gad. Compare
30:12And Zilpah Leah's female servant bore Jacob a second son. Compare
30:13And Leah said, Happy am I! For the daughters will call me blessed; so she called his name Asher. Compare
30:14And Reuben went out in the days of wheat harvest and found mandrakes in the field and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Please give me some of your son's mandrakes. Compare
30:15And 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? So Rachel said, Then he may lie with you tonight in return for your son's mandrakes. Compare
30:16And 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. So he lay with her that night. Compare
30:17And God gave heed to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son. Compare
30:18And Leah said, God has given me my hire, because I gave my female servant to my husband; so she called his name Issachar. Compare
30:19And Leah conceived again and bore a sixth son to Jacob. Compare
30:20And Leah said, God has endowed me with a good dowry; now my husband will dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons; so she called his name Zebulun. Compare
30:21And afterward she bore a daughter and called her name Dinah. Compare
30:22Then God remembered Rachel, and God gave heed to her and opened her womb. Compare
30:23And she conceived and bore a son and said, God has taken away my reproach. Compare
30:24And she called his name Joseph, saying, May Jehovah add to me another son. Compare
30:25And when Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, Send me away, that I may go to my own place and to my own country. Compare
30:26Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, that I may go; for you indeed know my service by which I have served you. Compare
30:27And Laban said to him, If you please, I have divined that Jehovah has blessed me on account of you. Compare
30:28And he said, Name me your wages, and I will give it. Compare
30:29And Jacob said to him, You indeed know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me. Compare
30:30For you had little before I came, and it has spread into a multitude, and Jehovah has blessed you wherever I turned. But now when shall I provide for my own house also? Compare
30:31And he said, What shall I give you? And Jacob said, You shall not give me anything. Just do this one thing for me: Let me again feed your flock and keep it. Compare
30:32Let me pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted animal, that is, every black animal among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and such will be my wages. Compare
30:33So my righteousness will testify for me later, when you come concerning my wages, by what is before you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and black among the sheep, if found with me, will be counted stolen. Compare
30:34And Laban said, Fine; let it be according to your word. Compare
30:35But on that day Laban removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the female 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 care of his sons. Compare
30:36And he set a distance of a three days' journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks. Compare
30:37And Jacob took rods of fresh poplar and almond and plane trees and peeled white stripes in them, exposing the white which was in the rods. Compare
30:38And he set the rods which he had peeled in front of the flocks in the troughs, that is, in the watering places where the flocks came to drink; and they bred when they came to drink. Compare
30:39And the flocks bred before the rods; and the flocks brought forth young that were streaked, speckled, and spotted. Compare
30:40And Jacob separated the lambs and set the faces of the flock toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban, and he put his own herds apart and did not put them with Laban's flock. Compare
30:41And whenever the stronger of the flock were breeding, Jacob placed the rods before the eyes of the flock in the troughs so that they might breed among the rods; Compare
30:42But when the flock was feebler, he did not put them in; so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's. Compare
30:43And the man became spread out exceedingly, and had large flocks, and female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys. Compare

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