Genesis 30 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

The Sons of Jacob

Gen 30:1And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister, and said to 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 has withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?

Gen 30:3

Gen 30:3And she said, Behold, there is my maid, Bilhah: go in to her, in order that she may bear on my knees, and I may also be built up by her.

Gen 30:4

Gen 30:4And she gave him Bilhah her maidservant as wife, and Jacob went in to her.

Gen 30:5

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

Gen 30:6

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

Gen 30:7

Gen 30:7And Bilhah Rachel's maidservant again conceived, and bore Jacob a second son.

Gen 30:8

Gen 30:8And Rachel said, Wrestlings of God have I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed; and she called his name Naphtali.

Gen 30:9

Gen 30:9And when Leah saw that she had ceased to bear, she took Zilpah her maidservant and gave her to Jacob as wife.

Gen 30:10

Gen 30:10And Zilpah Leah's maidservant bore Jacob a son.

Gen 30:11

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

Gen 30:12

Gen 30:12And Zilpah Leah's maidservant bore Jacob a second son.

Gen 30:13

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

Gen 30:14

Gen 30:14And Reuben went out in the days of wheat-harvest, and found mandrakes in the fields; and he brought them to his mother Leah. And Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.

Gen 30:15

Gen 30:15And she said to her, Is it too little that thou hast taken my husband, that thou wilt take 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 when Jacob came from the fields in the evening, Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in to me, for indeed I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.

Gen 30:17

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

Gen 30:18

Gen 30:18And Leah said, God has given me my hire, because I have given my maidservant to my husband; and she called his name Issachar.

Gen 30:19

Gen 30:19And Leah again conceived, and bore Jacob a sixth son;

Gen 30:20

Gen 30:20and Leah said, God has endowed me with a good dowry; this time 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 bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah.

Gen 30:22

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

Gen 30:23

Gen 30:23And she conceived, and bore a son, and said, God has taken away my reproach.

Gen 30:24

Gen 30:24And she called his name Joseph; and said, Jehovah will 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 to Laban, Send me away, that I may go to my place and to my country.

Gen 30:26

Gen 30:26Give me my wives for whom I have served thee, and my children; that I may go away, for thou knowest my service which I have served thee.

Gen 30:27

Gen 30:27And Laban said to him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes -- I have discovered that Jehovah has blessed me for thy sake.

Gen 30:28

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

Gen 30:29

Gen 30:29And he said to him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and what thy cattle has become with me.

Gen 30:30

Gen 30:30For it was little that thou hadst before me, and it is increased to a multitude, and Jehovah has blessed thee from the time I came; and now, when shall I also provide for my house?

Gen 30:31

Gen 30:31And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me anything. If thou doest this for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock:

Gen 30:32

Gen 30:32I will pass through all thy flock to-day, to remove thence all the speckled and spotted sheep, and all the brown lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and that shall be my hire.

Gen 30:33

Gen 30:33And my righteousness shall answer for me hereafter, when thou comest about my hire, before thy face: all that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the lambs, let that be stolen with me.

Gen 30:34

Gen 30:34And Laban said, Well, let it be according to thy word.

Gen 30:35

Gen 30:35And he removed that day the he-goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the brown among the lambs, and gave them into the hand of his sons.

Gen 30:36

Gen 30:36And he put three days' journey between himself and Jacob. And Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flock.

Gen 30:37

Gen 30:37And Jacob took fresh rods of white poplar, almond-tree, and maple; and peeled off white stripes in them, uncovering the white which was on the rods.

Gen 30:38

Gen 30:38And he set the rods which he had peeled before the flock, in the troughs at the watering-places where the flock came to drink, and they were ardent when they came to drink.

Gen 30:39

Gen 30:39And the flock was ardent before the rods; and the flock brought forth ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.

Gen 30:40

Gen 30:40And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flock toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he made himself separate flocks, and did not put them with Laban's flock.

Gen 30:41

Gen 30:41And it came to pass whensoever the strong cattle were ardent, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might become ardent among the rods;

Gen 30:42

Gen 30:42but when the sheep were feeble, he put them not in; so the feeble were Laban's, and the strong Jacob's.

Gen 30:43

Gen 30:43And the man increased very, very much, and had much cattle, and bondwomen, and bondmen, and camels, and asses.

In 1867, John Nelson Darby translated the New Testament from Greek into English. Further revisions were done in 1872 and 1884. Darby’s work was first published as The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation from the Original Languages by J. N. Darby. After Darby’s death in 1882, some of his students worked together to produce the complete Darby Bible based on the Masoretic Hebrew text, Darby’s German (Elberfelder), and the French (Pau) translations. In 1890, the first complete Darby Bible was published in English. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

Genesis 30 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

The Sons of Jacob

Jacob Prospers

Pericope