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Genesis30
1/And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob on children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
2/And Jacob`s anger was kindled againat Rachel: and he said,Am I in God`s stead, who hath wihheld from thee the fruit of the womb?
3/And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my kness, that I may also have children by her.
4/And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.
5/And Bilhah concived, and bare Jacob a son.
6/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.
7/And Bilhah Rachel`s maid conceived again ,and bare jacob a second son.
8/and Fachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have pravailed: and she called his name Naphtali.
9/When Leah saw that she had left bearing she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife,
10/And Zilpah Leah maid bare Jacob a son.
11/And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name god.
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 woidest thou rake away my son`s mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to nightfor thy son`s mandrakes also? and Rachel said, therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son`s 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 firth son.
18/And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my mauden 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 him six sons: and hse called his name Zebulun.
21/And afterwared she bare adaughter,and called her name Dinah.
22/And God rememberb Fachel, and God hearkened to her, and 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.
25/and it came to pass, when Fachel had born Josegh, that Jacob said unto Laban ,Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and top my country.
26/Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have 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 knoweat how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me.
30/For it was little which thou hadst before Icame, and it is now increased unto a multude; 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 sgain feed aid keep thy fiock.
32/I will pass thrugh all thy fiock to day , removing from thence all the speckled and spotted sattle, 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 righteousess answer for me in time to come , whrn it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown 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 and had all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
36/And set three days` journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of laban`s flocks.
37/and Jacob took hoim rods of gaeen pooler, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and kade the white appear which was in the rods.
38/And he set the rods which he had pilled before the fiocks inthe gutters in the watering troughs when the diocks came to drink, that they should come to drink.
39/And the flocks concived 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 ringtrakes, and all the Laban; and ne put his own; fiocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban`s cattle.
41/And it came to pass, whensoever the stroger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might concive 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 ,amd asses.