30Genesis 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.Select Genesis 30:1

2And 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?Select Genesis 30:2

3And she said, Behold, my maid Bilhah, go in to her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.Select Genesis 30:3

4And she gave him Bilhah, her handmaid, for a wife: and Jacob went in to her.Select Genesis 30:4

5And Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.Select Genesis 30:5

6And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore she called his name Dan.Select Genesis 30:6

7And Bilhah, Rachel's maid, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.Select Genesis 30:7

8And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.Select Genesis 30:8

9When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah, her maid, and gave her Jacob for a wife.Select Genesis 30:9

10And Zilpah, Leah's maid, bore Jacob a son.Select Genesis 30:10

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

12And Zilpah, Leah's maid, bore Jacob a second son.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 days of wheat-harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.Select Genesis 30:14

15And she said to 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.Select Genesis 30:15

16And Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in to me; for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.Select Genesis 30:16

17And God hearkened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob the fifth son.Select Genesis 30:17

18And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.Select Genesis 30:18

19And Leah conceived again, and bore Jacob the sixth son.Select Genesis 30:19

20And Leah said, God hath endowed me [with] a good dower; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun.Select Genesis 30:20

21And afterwards she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah.Select Genesis 30:21

22And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and rendered her fruitful.Select Genesis 30:22

23And she conceived, and bore a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach:Select Genesis 30:23

24And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD will add to me another son.Select Genesis 30:24

25And it came to pass, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.Select Genesis 30:25

26Give [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.Select Genesis 30:26

27And Laban said to him, I pray thee, if I have found favor in thine eyes, [tarry: for] I have 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 give [it].Select Genesis 30:28

29And he said to him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle were with me.Select Genesis 30:29

30For [it was] little which thou hadst before I [came], and it is [now] increased to a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for my own house also?Select Genesis 30:30

31And 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:Select Genesis 30:31

32I 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.Select Genesis 30:32

33So 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 accounted stolen with me.Select Genesis 30:33

34And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.Select Genesis 30:34

35And he removed that day the he-goats that were ring-streaked and spotted, and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted; every one that had [some] white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave [them] into the hands of his sons.Select Genesis 30:35

36And he set three days' journey between himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.Select Genesis 30:36

37And Jacob took to him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut-tree; and peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which [was] in the rods.Select Genesis 30:37

38And he set the rods, which he had peeled, 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.Select Genesis 30:38

39And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ring-streaked, speckled, and spotted.Select Genesis 30:39

40And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks towards the ring-streaked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban: and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not with Laban's cattle.Select Genesis 30:40

41And it came to pass, whenever the stronger cattle conceived, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.Select Genesis 30:41

42But when the cattle were feeble, he put [them] not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.Select Genesis 30:42

43And the man increased exceedingly, and had many cattle, and maid-servants, and men-servants, and camels, and asses.Select Genesis 30:43