Genesis
Genesis 30
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Genesis 30 — Scripture text (King James Version)
And when saw that she bare no children, envied her sister; and said unto , Give me children, or else I die. And ’s anger was kindled against : and he said, Am I in God’s stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb? And she said, Behold my maid , go in unto her; and she shall upon my knees that I may also have children by her. And she gave him her handmaid to wife: and went in unto her. And conceived, and bare a son. And said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name . And ’s maid conceived again, and bare a second son. And said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name . When saw that she had left bearing, she took her maid, and gave her to wife. And ’s maid bare a son. And said, A troop cometh: and she called his name . And ’s maid bare a second son. And said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name . And went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother . Then said to , Give me, I pray thee, of thy son’s mandrakes. And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son’s mandrakes also? And said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son’s mandrakes. And came out of the field in the evening, and went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son’s mandrakes. And he lay with her that night. And God hearkened unto , and she conceived, and bare the fifth son. And said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name . And conceived again, and bare the sixth son. And said, God hath 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 . And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name . And God remembered , and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb. And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach: And she called his name ; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son. And it came to pass, when had born , that said unto , Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country. Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee. And said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake. And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it. And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me. For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also? And he said, What shall I give thee? And said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock: I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the , and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire. So shall my answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the , that shall be counted stolen with me. And said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word. And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked 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 , and gave them into the hand of his sons. And he set three days journey betwixt himself and : and fed the rest of ’s flocks. And took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods. 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. And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted. And did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of ; and he his own flocks by themselves, and them not unto ’s cattle. And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods. But when the cattle were feeble, he them not in: so the feebler were ’s, and the stronger ’s. And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.