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Chapter
30
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 shall die."
2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel.
And
he said, "Am I in place of 'Elohiym/Godhead? . . .
Who
has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"
3
And she said,
"Behold
my maid, Bilhah {name means 'troubled'},
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'/'had sexual relations with her'.
{Verses
5-6: Jacob/Israel's Fifth born - Dan (Mother - Bilhah)}
5
And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.
6
And Rachel said,
"God
has judged me,
and
has also heard my voice,
and
has given me a son . . .
therefore
she called his name Dan
{name means 'a judge'}.
{Verses
7-8: Jacob/Israel's Sixth born - Naphtali (Mother - Bilhah)}
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
{name means 'wrestling'}.
9
When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing,
she
took Zilpah, her maid,
and
gave her Jacob to wife.
{Verses
10-11: Jacob/Israel's Seventh born - Gad (Mother - Zilpah)}
10
And Zilpah, Leah's maid, bare Jacob a son.
11
And Leah said,
"A
troop comes."
And she called his name Gad {name means 'troop'}.
{Verses
12-13: Jacob/Israel's Eighth born - Asher (Mother - Zilpah)}
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 {Name means 'happy'}.
14
And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest,
and
found mandrakes/'love-apples' in the field,
and
brought them unto his mother Leah.
Then
Rachel said to Leah,
"Give
me, please/'I pray you', of your son's mandrakes.
15
And she said unto her,
"Is
it a small matter that you have taken my husband?
And would you take away my son's mandrakes also?"
And
Rachel said,
"Therefore
he shall lie with you tonight for your son's mandrakes."
16
And Jacob came out of the field in the evening,
and
Leah went out to meet him, and said,
"You
must come in unto me . . .
for
surely I have hired you with my son's mandrakes."
And he lay with her that night.
{Verses
17-18: Jacob/Israel's Ninth born - Issachar (Mother - Leah (5th)}
17
And God listened unto Leah,
and
she conceived,
and
bare Jacob the fifth son.
18
And Leah said, "God has given me my wages,
because
I have given my maiden to my husband."
And
she called his name Issachar
{name means 'there is recompense'}.
{Verses
19-20: Jacob/Israel's Tenth born - Zebulun (Mother - Leah (6th)}
19
And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.
20
And Leah said,
"God
has 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 {name means 'exalted'}.
{Verses
21: Jacob/Israel's Eleventh born (10 sons) -
1st Daughter - Dinah (Mother - Leah (6 boys, 1 daughter to here)}
21
And afterwards she bare a daughter,
and
called her name Dinah.
{Verses
22-23: Jacob/Israel's Eleventh boy (1 girl) - Joseph (Mother -
Rachel (1st)}
22
And God remembered Rachel,
and
God listened to her, and opened her womb.
23
And she conceived, and bare a son; and said,
"God
has taken away my reproach."
24 And she called his name Joseph {name means 'God has added'}.
And said, Jehovah/God 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 my own place,
and
to my country. 26
Give
me my wives and my children,
for
whom I have served you,
and
let me go . . .
for
you know my service which I have done for you."
27
And Laban said unto him, "Please/'I pray you',
if
I have found favor in your eyes . . . delay . . .
for
I have learned by experience
that
Jehovah/God has blessed me for your sake."
28 And he said, "Designate to me your wages, and I will give it."
29
And he said unto him,
"You
know how I have served you,
and
how your cattle was with me. 30
For
it was little which you had before I came,
and
it is now increased unto a multitude.
And
Jehovah/God has blessed you since my coming . . .
and
now when shall I provide for my own house also?"
31
And he said,
"What
shall I give you?"
And Jacob said, "You shall not give me any thing.
If
you will do this thing for me,
I
will again feed and keep your flock. 32
I
will pass through all your flock today,
removing
from there 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 wages.
33
So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come,
when
it shall come for my wages before your 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 desire it will be according to your word."
35
And he removed that day the he goats
that
were ringstraked/striped 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 between 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 chestnut tree
and
pilled white streaks 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,
when
so ever 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 many cattle, and maidservants, and menservants,
and
camels, and asses.
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