17 August 2022 draft-bible
1 And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister, and she said to Jacob, Give me children, or else I will die.
2 And 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?
3 And she said, Behold, my slave Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may give birth on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her. 4 And she gave him Bilhah her slave as wife, and Jacob went in to her. 5 And Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son. 6 And Rachel said, God has judged my case, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son. Therefore she called his name Dan.
7 And Bilhah, Rachel’s slave, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son. 8 And Rachel said, I have wrestled with my sister with mighty wrestlings, and have prevailed. And she called his name Naphtali.
9 When Leah saw that she has stopped giving birth, she took Zilpah, her slave, and gave her to Jacob as a wife. 10 And Zilpah, Leah’s slave, bore Jacob a son. 11 And Leah said, How fortunate! And she called his name Gad.
12 And Zilpah, Leah’s slave, bore Jacob a second son. 13 And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy. And she called his name Asher.
14 And 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.
15 And 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?
And Rachel said, Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son’s mandrakes.
16 And 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. And he lay with her that night.
17 And God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son. 18 And Leah said, God has given me my hire, because I have given my slave to my husband. And she called his name Issachar.
19 And Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob. 20 And Leah said, God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have born him six sons. And she called his name Zebulun.
21 And afterwards, she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
22 And God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb. 23 And she conceived and bore a son, and said, God has taken away my reproach. 24 And she called his name Joseph, saying, May Yahweh add another son to me.
25 Now, when Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, Send me away, that I may go to 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 with which I have served you.
27 And 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. 28 And he said, Specify to me your wages, and I will give it.
29 And he said to him, You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me. 30 For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude; and Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. And now when will I provide for my own house as well?
31 And he said, What shall I give you?
And Jacob said, Give me nothing. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it. 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. 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.
34 And Laban said, Behold, let it be as you have said.
35 And that day he removed the he-goats that were streaked 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. 36 And he set three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.
37 And Jacob took himself rods of fresh poplar, and almond, and plane tree, and peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods. 38 And he set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the gutters, in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink; and they conceived when they came to drink. 39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted. 40 And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in Laban’s flock. And he put his own droves apart, and did not put them with Laban’s flock. 41 Then, whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, Jacob laid the rods in front of the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods; 42 but when the flock were feeble, he did not put them in. So the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s. 43 And the man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, and female slaves, and male slaves, and camels, and donkeys.
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