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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.
02 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?
03 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.
04 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to
wife: and Jacob went in unto her.
05 And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a
son.
06 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.
07 And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived
again, and bare Jacob a second son.
08 And Rachel said, With great wrestlings
have I wrestled with my sister, and I have
prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.
09 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.
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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.
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