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When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I shall die!”

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Jacob’s Children

Now when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister, and said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I die!”

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Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

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And Jacob’s anger was aroused against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

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Then she said, “Here is my servant Bilhah; go in to her, so that she may give birth on my behalf,a that even I may have childrenb through her.”

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So she said, “Here is my maid Bilhah; go in to her, and she will bear a child on my knees, that I also may [a]have children by her.”

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So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.

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Then she gave him Bilhah her maid as wife, and Jacob went in to her.

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And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.

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And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.

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Then Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice and given me a son.” Therefore she called his name Dan.c

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Then Rachel said, “God has judged my case; and He has also heard my voice and given me a son.” Therefore she called his name [b]Dan.

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Rachel’s servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.

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And Rachel’s maid Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.

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Then Rachel said, “With mighty wrestlingsd I have wrestled with my sister and have prevailed.” So she called his name Naphtali.e

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Then Rachel said, “With [c]great wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and indeed I have prevailed.” So she called his name [d]Naphtali.

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When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took her servant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

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When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, she took Zilpah her maid and gave her to Jacob as wife.

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Then Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son.

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And Leah’s maid Zilpah bore Jacob a son.

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And Leah said, “Good fortune has come!” so she called his name Gad.f

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Then Leah said, [e]“A troop comes!” So she called his name [f]Gad.

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Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.

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And Leah’s maid Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.

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And Leah said, “Happy am I! For women have called me happy.” So she called his name Asher.g

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Then Leah said, “I am happy, for the daughters will call me blessed.” So she called his name [g]Asher.

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In the days of wheat harvest Reuben went 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.”

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Now 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, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

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But she said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes also?” Rachel said, “Then he may lie with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”

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But she said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes also?”
And Rachel said, “Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son’s mandrakes.”

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When Jacob came from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come in to me, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he lay with her that night.

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When Jacob came out of the field in the evening, 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.” And he lay with her that night.

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And God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.

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And God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.

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Leah said, “God has given me my wages because I gave my servant to my husband.” So she called his name Issachar.h

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Leah said, “God has given me my wages, because I have given my maid to my husband.” So she called his name [h]Issachar.

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And Leah conceived again, and she bore Jacob a sixth son.

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Then Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a sixth son.

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Then Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good endowment; now my husband will honor me, because I have borne him six sons.” So she called his name Zebulun.i

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And Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good endowment; now my husband will dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons.” So she called his name [i]Zebulun.

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Afterward she bore a daughter and called her name Dinah.

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Afterward she bore a daughter, and called her name [j]Dinah.

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Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb.

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Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb.

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She conceived and bore a son and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”

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And she conceived and bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”

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And she called his name Joseph,j saying, “May the Lord add to me another son!”

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So she called his name [k]Joseph, and said, “The Lord shall add to me another son.”

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Jacob’s Prosperity

As soon as Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own home and country.

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Jacob’s Agreement with Laban

And 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.

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Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, that I may go, for you know the service that I have given you.”

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Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service which I have done for you.”

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But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your sight, I have learned by divination thatk the Lord has blessed me because of you.

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And Laban said to him, “Please stay, if I have found favor in your eyes, for I have learned by experience that the Lord has blessed me for your sake.”

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Name your wages, and I will give it.”

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Then he said, “Name me your wages, and I will give it.”

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Jacob said to him, “You yourself know how I have served you, and how your livestock has fared with me.

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So Jacob said to him, “You know how I have served you and how your livestock has been with me.

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For you had little before I came, and it has increased abundantly, and the Lord has blessed you wherever I turned. But now when shall I provide for my own household also?”

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For what you had before I came was little, and it has increased to a great amount; the Lord has blessed you [l]since my coming. And now, when shall I also provide for my own house?”

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He said, “What shall I give you?” Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this for me, I will again pasture your flock and keep it:

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So he said, “What shall I give you?”
And Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep your flocks:

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let me pass through all your flock today, removing from it every speckled and spotted sheep and every black lamb, and the spotted and speckled among the goats, and they shall be my wages.

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Let me pass through all your flock today, removing from there all the speckled and spotted sheep, and all the brown ones among the lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and these shall be my wages.

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So my honesty will answer for me later, when you come to look into my wages with you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and black among the lambs, if found with me, shall be counted stolen.”

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So my righteousness will answer for me in time to come, when the subject of my wages comes before you: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the lambs, will be considered stolen, if it is with me.”

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Laban said, “Good! Let it be as you have said.”

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And Laban said, “Oh, that it were according to your word!”

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But that day Laban removed the male goats that were striped and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white on it, and every lamb that was black, and put them in the charge of his sons.

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So he removed that day the male goats that were speckled and spotted, all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had some white in it, and all the brown ones among the lambs, and gave them into the hand of his sons.

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And he set a distance of three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob pastured the rest of Laban’s flock.

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Then he put three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.

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Then Jacob took fresh sticks of poplar and almond and plane trees, and peeled white streaks in them, exposing the white of the sticks.

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Now Jacob took for himself rods of green poplar and of the almond and chestnut trees, peeled white strips in them, and exposed the white which was in the rods.

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He set the sticks that he had peeled in front of the flocks in the troughs, that is, the watering places, where the flocks came to drink. And since they bred when they came to drink,

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And the rods which he had peeled, he set before the flocks in the gutters, in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink, so that they should conceive when they came to drink.

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the flocks bred in front of the sticks and so the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted.

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So the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.

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And Jacob separated the lambs and set the faces of the flocks toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban. He put his own droves apart and did not put them with Laban’s flock.

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Then Jacob separated the lambs, and made the flocks face toward the streaked and all the brown in the flock of Laban; but he put his own flocks by themselves and did not put them with Laban’s flock.

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Whenever the stronger of the flock were breeding, Jacob would lay the sticks in the troughs before the eyes of the flock, that they might breed among the sticks,

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And it came to pass, whenever the stronger livestock conceived, that Jacob placed the rods before the eyes of the livestock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.

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but for the feebler of the flock he would not lay them there. So the feebler would be Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.

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But when the flocks were feeble, he did not put them in; so the feebler were Laban’s and the stronger Jacob’s.

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Thus the man increased greatly and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

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Thus the man became exceedingly prosperous, and had large flocks, female and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

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Genesis 30

Genesis 30