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[1]Rachelwhen she sawe that she bare Iacob no children, she enuied her sister, and sayde vnto Iacob: Geue me children, or els I am but dead
[2]AndIacobs anger was kyndled agaynst Rachel, and sayde: Am I in Gods steade, whiche kepeth from thee the fruite of thy wombe
[3]Thenshe sayde: Here is my mayde Bilha, go in vnto her, & she shall beare vpon my knees, that I also may haue chyldren by her
[4]Andshe gaue him Bilha her handmayde to wyfe: and Iacob went in vnto her
[5]AndBilha conceaued, and bare Iacob a sonne
[6]Thensaide Rachel: God hath geuen sentence on my side, and hath also heard my voyce, and hath geuen me a sonne: therfore called she hym Dan
[7]AndBilha Rachels seruant conceaued againe, & bare Iacob another sonne
[8]AndRachel said: With godly wrastlynges haue I wrastled with my sister, & haue gotten the vpper hande: and she called his name Nephthali
[9]WhenLea sawe that she had left bearyng chyldren she toke Zilpha her mayde, and gaue her Iacob to wyfe
[10]AndZilpha Leas mayde bare Iacob a sonne
[11]Thensayde Lea, Good lucke: and called his name Gad
[12]AndZilpha Leas seruaunt bare Iacob an other sonne
[13]Thensaide Lea: happy am I, for the daughters wyll call me blessed: and called his name Aser
[14]AndRuben went out in the dayes of the wheate haruest, & founde Mandragoras in the fielde, and brought them vnto his mother Lea. Then said Rachel to Lea: Geue me I praye thee of thy sonnes Mandragoras
[15]Towhom Lea aunswered: Is it not enough that thou hast taken away my husband, but wouldest take away my sonnes Mandragoras also? Then saide Rachel: well, let hym sleepe with thee this night for thy sonnes Mandragoras
[16]AndIacob came from the fielde at euen, and Lea went out to meete hym, and sayde: thou shalt come in to me, for I haue bought thee in deede with my sonne Mandragoras. And he slept with her that same nyght
[17]AndGod hearde Lea, that she conceaued, and bare Iacob the fift sonne
[18]Thensayde Lea: God hath geuen me a rewarde, because I gaue my mayden to my husbande: and she called him Isachar
[19]AndLea conceaued yet agayne, and bare Iacob the sixt sonne
[20]AndLea sayde: God hath endued me with a good dowrie, nowe wyll my husbande dwell with me, because I haue borne hym sixe sonnes: and called his name Zabulon
[21]Afterthat, she bare a daughter, and called her name Dina
[22]AndGod remembred Rachel, & God hearde her, and made her fruitefull
[23]Sothat she conceaued & bare a sonne: and sayde, God hath taken awaye my rebuke
[24]Andshe called his name Ioseph, saying: the Lorde geue me yet another sonne
[25]Assooneas Rachel had borne Ioseph, Iacob sayde to Laban: Send me away, that I maye go vnto my owne place, and to my countrey
[26]Geueme my wyues and my chyldren for whom I haue serued thee, and let me go: for thou knowest what seruice I haue done thee
[27]Towhom Laban aunswered: I pray thee, yf I haue founde fauour in thy syght [tary]: for I haue proued that the Lorde blessed me for thy sake
[28]Alsohe sayde: Appoynt what thy rewarde shalbe, and I wyll geue [it thee.
[29]Buthe saide vnto him: Thou knowest what seruice I haue done thee, and in what takyng thy cattell haue ben vnder me
[30]Forthat litle which thou haddest before I came, is nowe increased into a multitude, and the Lord hath blessed thee through my trauell: but nowe when shall I make prouision for myne owne house also
[31]Andhe sayde: What shall I then geue thee? And Iacob aunswered, Thou shalt geue me nothyng at all: yf thou wylt do this thyng for me, then wyll I turne agayne, feede thy sheepe, and kepe them
[32]Iwyll go about all thy flockes this day, and seperate from them all the cattell that are spotted & of diuers colours: and all the blacke among the sheepe, & the partie & spotted amongst the kiddes [the same] shalbe my rewarde
[33]Soshall my ryghteousnes aunswere for me in time to come: for it shal come for my rewarde before thy face. And euery one that is not specked and partie amongst the goates, & blacke amongst the sheepe, let it be compted theft in me
[34]AndLaban sayde: go to, would God it myght be accordyng to thy saying
[35]Therforehe toke out the same day the hee goates that were ryngstraked and of diuers colours, & all the shee goates that were spotted and coloured, and all that had whyte in them, & all the blacke amongst the sheepe, and put them in the kepyng of his sonnes
[36]Andset three dayes iourney betwixte himselfe and Iacob: and so Iacob kept the rest of Labans sheepe
[37]Iacobtoke roddes of greene populer, hasell, and chesse nut trees, and pilled whyte strakes in them, and made the whyte appeare in the roddes
[38]Andput the roddes which he had pilled, [euen] before the sheepe, in the gutters and watryng throughes when the sheepe came to drynke, that they should conceaue when they came to drynke
[39]Andthe sheepe conceaued before the roddes, & brought foorth lambes ryngstraked, spotted, and partie
[40]AndIacob did seperate these lambes, and turned the faces of the sheepe whiche were in the flocke of Laban, towarde these ryngstraked, and al maner of blacke: and so put his owne flockes by them selues, and put them not with Labans cattell
[41]Andin euery conceauyng tyme of the stronger cattel, Iacob layed the roddes before the eyes of the cattell in the gutters, namely that they myght conceaue before the roddes
[42]Butwhen the cattell were feeble, he put them not in: and so the feebler were Labans, and the stronger Iacobs
[43]Andthe man increased exceedingly, and had much cattell, and mayde seruauntes, and man seruauntes, and camels, and asses
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