Genesis 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 * .
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?
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.
4. And she gave * him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in * unto her.
5. And Bilhah conceived * , and bare * Jacob a son.
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.
7. And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived * again, and bare * Jacob a second son.
8. And Rachel said * , With great wrestlings have I wrestled * with my sister, and I have prevailed * : and she called * his name Naphtali.
9. When Leah saw * that she had left * bearing * , she took * Zilpah her maid, and gave * her Jacob to wife.
10. And Zilpah Leah's maid bare * Jacob a son.
11. And Leah said * , A troop cometh * : and she called * his name Gad.
12. And Zilpah Leah's maid bare * Jacob a second son.
13. And Leah said * , Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed * : and she called * his name Asher.
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.
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.
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.
17. And God hearkened * unto Leah,and she conceived * , and bare * Jacob the fifth son.
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.
19. And Leah conceived * again, and bare * Jacob the sixth son.
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.
21. And afterwards she bare * a daughter, and called * her name Dinah.
22. And God remembered * Rachel, and God hearkened * to her, and opened * her womb.
23. And she conceived * , and bare * a son; and said * , God hath taken away * my reproach:
24. And she called * his name Joseph; and said * , The LORD shall add * to me another son.
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.
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.
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.
28. And he said * , Appoint * me thy wages, and I will give * it.
29. And he said * unto him, Thou knowest * how I have served * thee, and how thy cattle was with me.
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?
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:
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.
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.
34. And Laban said * , Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.
35. And he removed * that day the he goats that were ringstraked 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.
36. And he set * three days'journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed * the rest * of Laban's flocks.
37. And Jacob took * him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled * white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
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 * .
39. And the flocks conceived * before the rods, and brought forth * cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted * .
40. And Jacob did separate * the lambs, and set * the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, 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.
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.
42. But when the cattle were feeble * , he put them not in * : so the feebler * were Laban's, and the stronger * Jacob's.
43. And the man increased * exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.
