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[1]Andwhen Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said to Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
[2]AndJacob's anger was kindled against Rachel; and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?
[3]Andshe said, Behold, my maid Bilhah, go in to her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.
[4]Andshe gave him Bilhah, her handmaid, for a wife: and Jacob went in to her.
[5]AndBilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.
[6]AndRachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore she called his name Dan.
[7]AndBilhah, Rachel's maid, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.
[8]AndRachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.
[9]WhenLeah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah, her maid, and gave her Jacob for a wife.
[10]AndZilpah, Leah's maid, bore Jacob a son.
[11]AndLeah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.
[12]AndZilpah, Leah's maid, bore Jacob a second son.
[13]AndLeah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.
[14]AndReuben 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, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.
[15]Andshe said to 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.
[16]AndJacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in to me; for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.
[17]AndGod hearkened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob the fifth son.
[18]AndLeah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.
[19]AndLeah conceived again, and bore Jacob the sixth son.
[20]AndLeah said, God hath endowed me with a good dower; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun.
[21]Andafterwards she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
[22]AndGod remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and rendered her fruitful.
[23]Andshe conceived, and bore a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach:
[24]Andshe called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD will add to me another son.
[25]Andit 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.
[26]Giveme 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.
[27]AndLaban said to him, I pray thee, if I have found favor in thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience, that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake.
[28]Andhe said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.
[29]Andhe said to him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle were with me.
[30]Forit was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased to a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for my own house also?
[31]Andhe 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:
[32]Iwill pass through all thy flock to-day, 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.
[33]Soshall 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 accounted stolen with me.
[34]AndLaban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.
[35]Andhe removed that day the he-goats that were ring-streaked and spotted, and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted; every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hands of his sons.
[36]Andhe set three days' journey between himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
[37]AndJacob took to him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut-tree; and peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
[38]Andhe set the rods, which he had peeled, 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.
[39]Andthe flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ring-streaked, speckled, and spotted.
[40]AndJacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks towards the ring-streaked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban: and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not with Laban's cattle.
[41]Andit came to pass, whenever the stronger cattle conceived, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.
[42]Butwhen the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
[43]Andthe man increased exceedingly, and had many cattle, and maid-servants, and men-servants, and camels, and asses.
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