30Genesis 30

CHAP. XXX. / 1 Rachel in griefe for her barrennesse, giueth Bilhah her mayd vnto Iacob. 5 She beareth Dan and Naphtali. 9 Leah giueth Zilpah her mayd, who beareth Gad and Asher. 14 Reuben findeth Mand

1And when Rachel saw that shee bare Iacob no children, Rachel enuied her sister, and said vnto Iacob, Giue mee children, or els I die.Select Genesis 30:1

2And Iacobs anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, Am I in Gods stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the wombe?Select Genesis 30:2

3And she said, Behold my mayde Bilhah: goe in vnto her, and she shall beare vpon my knees, that I may also have children by her.Select Genesis 30:3

4And shee gaue him Bilhah her handmayd to wife: and Iacob went in vnto her.Select Genesis 30:4

5And Bilhah conceiued and bare Iacob a sonne.Select Genesis 30:5

6And Rachel said, God hath iudged me, and hath also heard my voyce, and hath giuen me a sonne; therefore called she his name Dan.Select Genesis 30:6

7And Bilhah Rachels mayd conceiued againe, and bare Iacob a second sonne.Select Genesis 30:7

8And Rachel saide, With great wrastlings haue I wrastled with my sister, and I haue preuailed: and she called his name Naphtali:Select Genesis 30:8

9When Leah saw that she had left bearing, shee tooke Zilpah her mayde, and gaue her Iacob to wife.Select Genesis 30:9

10And Zilpah Leahs mayde bare Iacob a sonne.Select Genesis 30:10

11And Leah said, A troupe commeth: and she called his name Gad.Select Genesis 30:11

12And Zilpah Leahs mayde bare Iacob a second sonne.Select Genesis 30:12

13And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.Select Genesis 30:13

14And Reuben went in the dayes of wheat haruest, & found Mandrakes in the field, and brought them vnto his mother Leah. Then Rachel saide to Leah, Giue me, I pray thee, of thy sonnes Mandrakes.Select Genesis 30:14

15And shee said vnto her, Is it a small matter, that thou hast taken my husband? and wouldst thou take away my sonnes Mandrakes also? and Rachel said, Therefore hee shall lye with thee to night, for thy sonnes Mandrakes.Select Genesis 30:15

16And Iacob came out of the field in the euening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in vnto mee: for surely I haue hired thee with my sonnes Mandrakes. And hee lay with her that night.Select Genesis 30:16

17And God hearkened vnto Leah, and she conceiued, and bare Iacob the fift sonne.Select Genesis 30:17

18And Leah said, God hath giuen mee my hire, because I haue giuen my mayden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.Select Genesis 30:18

19And Leah conceiued againe, and bare Iacob the sixth sonne.Select Genesis 30:19

20And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry: Now will my husband dwel with me, because I haue borne him sixe sonnes: and shee called his name Zebulun.Select Genesis 30:20

21And afterwardes shee bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.Select Genesis 30:21

22And God remembred Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her wombe.Select Genesis 30:22

23And shee conceiued and bare a sonne, and said; God hath taken away my reproch:Select Genesis 30:23

24And shee called his name Ioseph, and saide, The LORD shall adde to me another sonne.Select Genesis 30:24

25And it came to passe when Rachel had borne Ioseph, that Iacob said vnto Laban, Send me away, that I may goe vnto mine owne place, and to my countrey.Select Genesis 30:25

26Giue mee my wiues and my children, for whom I haue serued thee, and let me goe: for thou knowest my seruice which I haue done thee.Select Genesis 30:26

27And Laban said vnto him, I pray thee, if I haue found fauour in thine eyes, tary: for I haue learned by experience, that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake.Select Genesis 30:27

28And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will giue it.Select Genesis 30:28

29And hee said vnto him, Thou knowest how I haue serued thee, and how thy cattell was with me.Select Genesis 30:29

30For it was little which thou hadst before I came; and it is now increased vnto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my comming: and now when shall I prouide for mine owne house also?Select Genesis 30:30

31And hee said, what shall I giue thee? and Iacob said, Thou shalt not giue me any thing; if thou wilt doe this thing for mee, I will againe feed and keepe thy flocke.Select Genesis 30:31

32I will passe through all thy flocke to day, remoouing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattell: and all the browne cattell among the sheepe, and the spotted and speckled among the goates, and of such shalbe my hire.Select Genesis 30:32

33So shall my righteousnesse answere for mee in time to come, when it shall come for my hire, before thy face: euery one that is not speckled and spotted amongst the goates, and browne amongst the sheepe, that shalbe counted stollen with me.Select Genesis 30:33

34And Laban saide, Beholde, I would it might bee according to thy word.Select Genesis 30:34

35And he remoued that day the hee goates that were ring-straked, and spotted, and all the shee goats that were speckled and spotted, and euery one that had some white in it, and all the browne amongst the sheepe, and gaue them into the hand of his sonnes.Select Genesis 30:35

36And hee set three dayes iourney betwixt himselfe and Iacob: and Iacob fed the rest of Labans flocks.Select Genesis 30:36

37And Iacob tooke him rods of greene poplar, and of the hasel and chesnut tree, and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appeare which was in the rods.Select Genesis 30:37

38And he set the rods which he had pilled, before the flockes in the gutters in the watering troughes when the flocks came to drinke, that they should conceiue when they came to drinke.Select Genesis 30:38

39And the flockes conceiued before the rods, and brought forth cattell ringstraked, speckled and spotted.Select Genesis 30:39

40And Iacob did separate the lambes, and set the faces of the flockes toward the ring-straked, and all the browne in the flocke of Laban: and he put his owne flocks by themselues, and put them not vnto Labans cattell.Select Genesis 30:40

41And it came to passe whensoeuer the stronger cattell did conceiue, that Iacob layd the rods before the eyes of the cattell in the gutters, that they might conceiue among the rods.Select Genesis 30:41

42But when the cattel were feeble, hee put them not in: so the feebler were Labans, and the stronger Iacobs.Select Genesis 30:42

43And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattell, and maydseruants, and men seruants, and camels, and asses.Select Genesis 30:43