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Genesis

1 And when Rachel saw that she bare Ja­cob no chil­dren, Rachel en­vied her sis­ter; and said unto Ja­cob, Give me chil­dren, or else I die. 2 And Jacob'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 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. 4 And she gave him Bil­hah her hand­maid to wife: and Ja­cob went in unto her. 5 And Bil­hah con­ceived, 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 Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wres­tled with my sis­ter, and I have pre­vailed: 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's maid bare Ja­cob a son. 11 And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad. 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 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 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 the fifth son. 18 And Leah said, God hath giv­en me my hire, be­cause I have giv­en my maid­en 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 me, be­cause I have born him six sons: and she called his name Ze­bu­lun. 21 And af­ter­wards she bare a daugh­ter, and called her name Di­nah. 22 And God re­mem­bered Rachel, and God 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 Rachel had born Joseph, that Ja­cob said unto La­ban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own 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 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 know­est how I have served thee, and how thy cat­tle was with me. 30 For it was lit­tle which thou hadst be­fore I came, and it is now in­creased unto a mul­ti­tude; 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 again feed and keep thy flock: 32 I will 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 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. 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 that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons. 36 And he set three days' jour­ney be­twixt him­self and Ja­cob: and Ja­cob fed the rest of Laban's flocks. 37 And Ja­cob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and ches­nut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white ap­pear which was in the rods. 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. 39 And the flocks con­ceived 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 ringstraked, 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. 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. 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, and ass­es.