Genesis Chapter 30

Genesis Chapter 30
1 And when Rachel saw that she bear
Jacob no children, Rachel envied her
sister, and said unto Jacob, Give me
children, or else I die.
2 Then Jacob’s anger was kindled
against Rachel, and he said, Am I in
God’s stead, which hath withholden
from thee the fruit of the womb?
3 And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah,
go in to her, and she shall bear upon my
knees, and I shall have children also by
her.
4 Then she gave him Bilhah her maid to
wife, and Jacob went in to her. 5 So
Bilhah conceived and bear Jacob a son.
6 Then said Rachel, God hath given
sentence on my side, 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 bear Jacob the second son. 8
Then Rachel said, With excellent
wrestling have I wrestled with my sister,
and have gotten the upper hand: and she
called his name, Naphtali. 9 And 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 bear Jacob a
son.
11 Then said Leah, A company cometh:
and she called his name, Gad. 12 Again
Zilpah Leah’s maid bear Jacob another
son.
13 Then said Leah, Ah, blessed am I, for
the daughters will bless me. And she
called his name, Asher.
14 Now Reuben went in the days of the
wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in
the field and brought them unto his
mother Leah. Then said Rachel to Leah,
Give me, I pray thee, of thy son’s
mandrakes.
15 But she answered her, Is it a small
matter for thee to take mine husband,
except thou take my son’s mandrakes
also? Then said Rachel, Therefore he
shall sleep with thee this night for thy
son’s mandrakes.
16 And Jacob came from the field in the
evening, and Leah went out to meet him,
and said, Come in to me, for I have
bought and paid for thee with my son’s
mandrakes: and he slept with her that
night.
17 And God heard Leah and she
conceived, and bear unto Jacob the fifth
son.
18 Then said Leah, God hath given me
my reward, because I gave my maid to
my husband, and she called his name
Issachar.
19 After, Leah conceived again, and
bear Jacob the sixth son.
20 Then Leah said, God hath endued me
with a good dowry: now will mine
husband dwell with me, because I have
born him six sons: and she called his
name Zebulun.
21 After that, she bear a daughter, and
she called her name Dinah. 22 And God
remembered Rachel, and God heard her,
and opened her womb. 23 So she
conceived and bear a son, and said, God
hath taken away my rebuke.
24 And she called his name Joseph,
saying, The Lord will give me yet
another son.
25 And as soon as Rachel had born
Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, Send me
away that I may go unto my 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 what service I have
done thee.
27 To whom Laban answered, If I have
now found favor in thy sight, tarry: I
have perceived that the Lord hath
blessed me for thy sake.
28 Also he said, Appoint unto me thy
wages, and I will give it thee. 29 But he
said unto him, Thou knowest, what
service I have done thee, and in what
taking thy cattle hath been under me.
30 For the little, that thou hadst before I
came, is increased into a multitude: and
the Lord hath blessed thee by my
coming: but now when shall I travel for
mine own house also?
31 Then he said, What shall I give thee?
And Jacob answered, Thou shalt give
me nothing at all: if thou wilt do this
thing for me, I will return, feed, and
keep thy sheep.
32 I will pass through all thy flocks this
day, and separate from them all the
sheep with little spots and great spots,
and all black lambs among the sheep,
and the great spotted, and little spotted
among the goats: and it shall be my
wages.
33 So shall my righteousness answer for
me hereafter, when it shall come for my
reward before thy face, and every one
that hath not little or great spots among
the goats, and black among the sheep, the
same shall be theft with me.
34 Then Laban said, Go to, would God
it might be according to thy saying. 35
Therefore he took out the same day the
he goats that were parti colored and with
great spots, and all the she goats with
little and great spots, and all that had
white in them, and all the black among
the sheep, and put them in the keeping of
his sons.
36 And he set three days journey
between himself and Jacob. And Jacob
kept the rest of Laban’s sheep.
37 Then Jacob took rods of green
popular, and of hazel, and of the chestnut
tree, and pilled white strakes in them,
and made the white appear in the rods.
38 Then he put the rods, which he had
pilled, in the gutters and watering
troughs, when the sheep came to drink,
before the sheep. (for they were in heat,
when they came to drink)
39 And the sheep were in heat before the
rods, and afterward brought forth young
of parti color, and with small and great
spots.
40 And Jacob parted these lambs, and
turned the faces of the flock towards
these lambs parti colored and all
manner of black, among the sheep of
Laban: so he put his own flocks by
themselves, and put them not with
Laban’s flock.
41 And in every ramming time of the
stronger sheep, Jacob laid the rods
before the eyes of the sheep in the
gutters, that they might conceive before
the rods.
42 But when the sheep were feeble, he
put them not in: and so the feebler were
Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.
43 So the man increased exceedingly,
and had many flocks, and
maidservants, and menservants, and
camels and asses.