Read Genesis 30

World English Bible · 43 verses

1. ¹ When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
2. ² Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
3. ³ She said, “Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
4. ⁴ She gave him Bilhah her servant as wife, and Jacob went in to her.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
5. ⁵ Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
6. ⁶ Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son.” Therefore she called his name Dan.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
7. ⁷ Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
8. ⁸ Rachel said, “I have wrestled with my sister with mighty wrestlings, and have prevailed.” She named him Naphtali.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
9. ⁹ When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her servant, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
10. ¹⁰ Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a son.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
11. ¹¹ Leah said, “How fortunate!” She named him Gad.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
12. ¹² Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a second son.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
13. ¹³ Leah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy.” She named him Asher.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
14. ¹⁴ Reuben 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, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
15. ¹⁵ Leah said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes, also?” Rachel said, “Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son’s mandrakes.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
16. ¹⁶ Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, “You must come in to me; for I have surely hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” He lay with her that night.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
17. ¹⁷ God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
18. ¹⁸ Leah said, “God has given me my hire, because I gave my servant to my husband.” She named him Issachar.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
19. ¹⁹ Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
20. ²⁰ Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons.” She named him Zebulun.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
21. ²¹ Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
22. ²² God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
23. ²³ She conceived, bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
24. ²⁴ She named him Joseph, saying, “May Yahweh add another son to me.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
25. ²⁵ When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
26. ²⁶ Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
27. ²⁷ Laban said to him, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
28. ²⁸ He said, “Appoint me your wages, and I will give it.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
29. ²⁹ Jacob said to him, “You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
30. ³⁰ For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
31. ³¹ Laban said, “What shall I give you?” Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
32. ³² I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. This will be my hire.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
33. ³³ So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that might be with me, will be considered stolen.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
34. ³⁴ Laban said, “Behold, let it be according to your word.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
35. ³⁵ That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
36. ³⁶ He set three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
37. ³⁷ Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, and plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
38. ³⁸ He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
39. ³⁹ The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks produced streaked, speckled, and spotted.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
40. ⁴⁰ Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in Laban’s flock. He put his own droves apart, and didn’t put them into Laban’s flock.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
41. ⁴¹ Whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, Jacob laid the rods in front of the eyes of the flock in the watering troughs, that they might conceive among the rods;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
42. ⁴² but when the flock were feeble, he didn’t put them in. So the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
43. ⁴³ The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

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