[[Genesis 29|<< Genesis 29]] | [[Genesis|Genesis]] | [[Genesis 31|Genesis 31 >>]] ### Genesis 30 1 AND when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die. ^1 2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, _Am_ I in God's stead, who has withheld from thee the fruit of the womb? ^2 3 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. ^3 4 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her. ^4 5 And Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son. ^5 6 And Rachel said, God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan. ^6 7 And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son. ^7 8 And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali. ^8 9 When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife. ^9 10 And Zilpah Leah's maid bore Jacob a son. ^10 11 And Leah said, A troop comes: and she called his name Gad. ^11 12 And Zilpah Leah's maid bore Jacob a second son. ^12 13 And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher. ^13 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. ^14 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. ^15 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. ^16 17 And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob the fifth son. ^17 18 And Leah said, God has given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar. ^18 19 And Leah conceived again, and bore Jacob the sixth son. ^19 20 And Leah said, God has 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. ^20 21 And afterwards she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah. ^21 22 ¶ And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb. ^22 23 And she conceived, and bore a son; and said, God has taken away my reproach: ^23 24 And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son. ^24 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. ^25 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. ^26 27 And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favor in thine eyes, _tarry:_ _for_ I have learned by experience that the LORD has blessed me for thy sake. ^27 28 And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give _it_. ^28 29 And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me. ^29 30 For _it_ _was_ little which thou hadst before I _came_, and it is _now_ increased unto a multitude; and the LORD has blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also? ^30 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: ^31 32 I will pass through all thy flock today, 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. ^32 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. ^33 34 And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word. ^34 35 And he removed that day the he goats that were ring-striped 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. ^35 36 And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks. ^36 37 ¶ And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white peels in them, and made the white appear which _was_ in the rods. ^37 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. ^38 39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ring-striped, speckled, and spotted. ^39 40 And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ring-striped, 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. ^40 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. ^41 42 But when the cattle were feeble, he put _them_ not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's. ^42 43 And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses. ^43