Genesis 30 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

The Sons of Jacob

Gen 30:1Now when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, [fn]she became jealous of her sister; and she said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I die.”

Gen 30:2

Gen 30:2Then Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

Gen 30:3

Gen 30:3She said, “Here is my maid Bilhah, go in to her that she may bear on my knees, that [fn]through her I too may have children.”

Gen 30:4

Gen 30:4So she gave him her maid Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.

Gen 30:5

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

Gen 30:6

Gen 30:6Then Rachel said, “God has [fn]vindicated me, and has indeed heard my voice and has given me a son.” Therefore she named him [fn]Dan.

Gen 30:7

Gen 30:7Rachel’s maid Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.

Gen 30:8

Gen 30:8So Rachel said, “With [fn]mighty wrestlings I have [fn]wrestled with my sister, and I have indeed prevailed.” And she named him Naphtali.

Gen 30:9

Gen 30:9When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, she took her maid Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

Gen 30:10

Gen 30:10Leah’s maid Zilpah bore Jacob a son.

Gen 30:11

Gen 30:11Then Leah said, “[fn]How fortunate!” So she named him [fn]Gad.

Gen 30:12

Gen 30:12Leah’s maid Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.

Gen 30:13

Gen 30:13Then Leah said, “[fn]Happy am I! For women will call me happy.” So she named him [fn]Asher.

Gen 30:14

Gen 30:14Now in the days of wheat harvest Reuben went 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.”

Gen 30:15

Gen 30:15But she said to her, “Is it a small matter for you to take my husband? And would you take my son’s mandrakes also?” So Rachel said, “Therefore he may lie with you tonight in return for your son’s mandrakes.”

Gen 30:16

Gen 30:16When Jacob came in from the field in the evening, then 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.” So he lay with her that night.

Gen 30:17

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

Gen 30:18

Gen 30:18Then Leah said, “God has given me my [fn]wages because I gave my maid to my husband.” So she named him Issachar.

Gen 30:19

Gen 30:19Leah conceived again and bore a sixth son to Jacob.

Gen 30:20

Gen 30:20Then Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good gift; now my husband [fn]will dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons.” So she named him Zebulun.

Gen 30:21

Gen 30:21Afterward she bore a daughter and named her Dinah.

Gen 30:22

Gen 30:22Then God remembered Rachel, and God gave heed to her and opened her womb.

Gen 30:23

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

Gen 30:24

Gen 30:24She named him Joseph, saying, “May the LORD [fn]give me another son.”

Jacob Prospers

Gen 30:25

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

Gen 30:26

Gen 30:26“Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me depart; for you yourself know my service which I have [fn]rendered you.”

Gen 30:27

Gen 30:27But Laban said to him, “If now [fn]it pleases you, stay with me; I have divined that the LORD has blessed me on your account.”

Gen 30:28

Gen 30:28He [fn]continued, “Name me your wages, and I will give it.”

Gen 30:29

Gen 30:29But he said to him, “You yourself know how I have served you and how your cattle have [fn]fared with me.

Gen 30:30

Gen 30:30“For you had little before [fn]I came and it has [fn]increased to a multitude, and the LORD has blessed you [fn]wherever I turned. But now, when shall I provide for my own household also?”

Gen 30:31

Gen 30:31So he said, “What shall I give you?” And Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this one thing for me, I will again pasture and keep your flock:

Gen 30:32

Gen 30:32let me pass through your entire flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted sheep and every black [fn]one among the lambs and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and such shall be my wages.

Gen 30:33

Gen 30:33“So my [fn]honesty will answer for me later, when you come concerning my [fn]wages. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and black among the lambs, if found with me, will be considered stolen.”

Gen 30:34

Gen 30:34Laban said, “[fn]Good, let it be according to your word.”

Gen 30:35

Gen 30:35So he removed on that day the striped and spotted male goats and all the speckled and spotted female goats, every one with white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the [fn]care of his sons.

Gen 30:36

Gen 30:36And he put a distance of three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.

Gen 30:37

Gen 30:37Then Jacob [fn]took fresh rods of poplar and almond and plane trees, and peeled white stripes in them, exposing the white which was [fn]in the rods.

Gen 30:38

Gen 30:38He set the rods which he had peeled in front of the flocks in the gutters, even in the watering troughs, where the flocks came to drink; and they [fn]mated when they came to drink.

Gen 30:39

Gen 30:39So the flocks [fn]mated by the rods, and the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted.

Gen 30:40

Gen 30:40Jacob separated the lambs, and [fn]made the flocks face toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban; and he put his own herds apart, and did not put them with Laban’s flock.

Gen 30:41

Gen 30:41Moreover, whenever the [fn]stronger of the flock [fn]were mating, Jacob would place the rods in the sight of the flock in the gutters, so that they might [fn]mate by the rods;

Gen 30:42

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

Gen 30:43

Gen 30:43So the man [fn]became exceedingly prosperous, and had large flocks and female and male servants and camels and donkeys.

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NASB95 Footnotes

(30:1)

Literally: Rachel

(30:3)

Literally: from her I too may be built

(30:6)

Literally: judged

(30:6)

I.e. He judged

(30:8)

Literally: wrestlings of God

(30:8)

Hebrew: niphtal, related to Naphtali

(30:11)

Literally: With fortune! Some versions read Fortune has come

(30:11)

I.e. Fortune

(30:13)

Literally: With my happiness!

(30:13)

I.e. happy

(30:18)

Hebrew: sachar, related to Issachar

(30:20)

Hebrew: zabal, related to Zebulun. Some translate will honor

(30:24)

Literally: add to me; Heb Joseph

(30:26)

Literally: served

(30:27)

Literally: I have found favor in your eyes

Literally: said

Literally: been

Literally: me

Literally: broken forth

(30:30)

Literally: at my foot

(30:32)

Literally: sheep

(30:33)

Literally: righteousness

(30:33)

Literally: wages which are before you

(30:34)

Literally: Behold, would that it might be

(30:35)

Literally: hand

(30:37)

Literally: took to himself

Literally: on

Or, conceived

Or, conceived

Literally: set the faces

(30:41)

Literally: bound ones; i.e. firm and compact

(30:41)

Or, conceived

(30:41)

Or, conceive

(30:42)

Literally: bound ones; i.e. firm and compact

(30:43)

Literally: broke forth

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Genesis 30 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

The Sons of Jacob

Jacob Prospers

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