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Genesis 30 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

Gen 30:1

Gen 30:1And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and she said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.

Gen 30:2

Gen 30:2And 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?

Gen 30:3

Gen 30:3And she said, Behold, my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; that she may bear upon my knees, and I also may obtain children by her.

Gen 30:4

Gen 30:4And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.

Gen 30:5

Gen 30:5And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.

Gen 30:6

Gen 30:6And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.

Gen 30:7

Gen 30:7And Bilhah Rachel’s handmaid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son.

Gen 30:8

Gen 30:8And Rachel said, With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.

Gen 30:9

Gen 30:9When Leah saw that she had left off bearing, she took Zilpah her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob to wife.

Gen 30:10

Gen 30:10And Zilpah Leah’s handmaid bare Jacob a son.

Gen 30:11

Gen 30:11And Leah said, Fortunate! and she called his name Gad.

Gen 30:12

Gen 30:12And Zilpah Leah’s handmaid bare Jacob a second son.

Gen 30:13

Gen 30:13And Leah said, Happy am I! for the daughters will call me happy: and she called his name Asher.

Gen 30:14

Gen 30:14And 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.

Gen 30:15

Gen 30:15And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken away 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.

Gen 30:16

Gen 30:16And Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for I have surely hired thee with my son’s mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.

Gen 30:17

Gen 30:17And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob a fifth son.

Gen 30:18

Gen 30:18And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.

Gen 30:19

Gen 30:19And Leah conceived again, and bare a sixth son to Jacob.

Gen 30:20

Gen 30:20And Leah said, God hath endowed me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun.

Gen 30:21

Gen 30:21And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.

Gen 30:22

Gen 30:22And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.

Gen 30:23

Gen 30:23And she conceived, and bare a son: and said, God hath taken away my reproach:

Gen 30:24

Gen 30:24and she called his name Joseph, saying, Jehovah add to me another son.

Jacob Prospers

Gen 30:25

Gen 30:25And it came to pass, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country.

Gen 30:26

Gen 30:26Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service wherewith I have served thee.

Gen 30:27

Gen 30:27And Laban said unto him, If now I have found favor in thine eyes, tarry: for I have divined that Jehovah hath blessed me for thy sake.

Gen 30:28

Gen 30:28And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.

Gen 30:29

Gen 30:29And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle have fared with me.

Gen 30:30

Gen 30:30For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it hath increased unto a multitude; and Jehovah hath blessed thee whithersoever I turned: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?

Gen 30:31

Gen 30:31And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me aught: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed thy flock and keep it.

Gen 30:32

Gen 30:32I will pass through all thy flock to-day, removing from thence every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.

Gen 30:33

Gen 30:33So shall my righteousness answer for me hereafter, when thou shalt come concerning my hire that is before thee: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that, if found with me, shall be counted stolen.

Gen 30:34

Gen 30:34And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.

Gen 30:35

Gen 30:35And he removed that day the he-goats that were ringstreaked and spotted, and all the she-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;

Gen 30:36

Gen 30:36and he set three days’ journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.

Gen 30:37

Gen 30:37And Jacob took him rods of fresh poplar, and of the almond and of the plane-tree; and peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.

Gen 30:38

Gen 30:38And he set the rods which he had peeled over against the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink; and they conceived when they came to drink.

Gen 30:39

Gen 30:39And the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted.

Gen 30:40

Gen 30:40And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstreaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and put them not unto Laban’s flock.

Gen 30:41

Gen 30:41And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger of the flock did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods;

Gen 30:42

Gen 30:42but when the flock were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.

Gen 30:43

Gen 30:43And the man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, and maid-servants and men-servants, and camels and asses.
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