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GEN 30:1
Genesis 30:1
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And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children,
Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die. |
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GEN 30:2
Genesis 30:2
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And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel:
and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the
womb? |
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GEN 30:3
Genesis 30:3
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And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto
her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her. |
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GEN 30:4
Genesis 30:4
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And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife:
and Jacob went in unto her. |
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GEN 30:5
Genesis 30:5
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And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son. |
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GEN 30:6
Genesis 30:6
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And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath
also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan. |
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GEN 30:7
Genesis 30:7
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And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and
bare Jacob a second son. |
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GEN 30:8
Genesis 30:8
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And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have
I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali. |
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GEN 30:9
Genesis 30:9
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When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she
took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife. |
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GEN 30:10
Genesis 30:10
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And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son. |
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GEN 30:11
Genesis 30:11
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And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called
his name Gad. |
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GEN 30:12
Genesis 30:12
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And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son. |
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GEN 30:13
Genesis 30:13
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And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters
will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher. |
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GEN 30:14
Genesis 30:14
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And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest,
and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then
Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes. |
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GEN 30:15
Genesis 30:15
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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 Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son's
mandrakes. |
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GEN 30:16
Genesis 30:16
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And Jacob came out of the field in the evening,
and Leah 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. |
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GEN 30:17
Genesis 30:17
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And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived,
and bare Jacob the fifth son. |
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GEN 30:18
Genesis 30:18
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And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because
I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar. |
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GEN 30:19
Genesis 30:19
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And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the
sixth son. |
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GEN 30:20
Genesis 30:20
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And Leah 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 Zebulun. |
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GEN 30:21
Genesis 30:21
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And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called
her name Dinah. |
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GEN 30:22
Genesis 30:22
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And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened
to her, and opened her womb. |
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GEN 30:23
Genesis 30:23
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And she conceived, and bare a son; and said,
God hath taken away my reproach: |
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GEN 30:24
Genesis 30:24
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And she called his name Joseph; and said, The
LORD shall add to me another son. |
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GEN 30:25
Genesis 30:25
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And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph,
that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and
to my country. |
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GEN 30:26
Genesis 30:26
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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. |
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GEN 30:27
Genesis 30:27
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And Laban 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. |
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GEN 30:28
Genesis 30:28
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And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will
give it. |
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GEN 30:29
Genesis 30:29
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And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have
served thee, and how thy cattle was with me. |
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GEN 30:30
Genesis 30:30
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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? |
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GEN 30:31
Genesis 30:31
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And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob
said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will
again feed and keep thy flock. |
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GEN 30:32
Genesis 30:32
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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 sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be
my hire. |
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GEN 30:33
Genesis 30:33
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So shall my righteousness 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 sheep, that shall be
counted stolen with me. |
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GEN 30:34
Genesis 30:34
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And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be
according to thy word. |
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GEN 30:35
Genesis 30:35
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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 sheep, and
gave them into the hand of his sons. |
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GEN 30:36
Genesis 30:36
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And he set three days' journey betwixt himself
and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks. |
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GEN 30:37
Genesis 30:37
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And Jacob 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. |
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GEN 30:38
Genesis 30:38
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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. |
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GEN 30:39
Genesis 30:39
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And the flocks conceived before the rods, and
brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted. |
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GEN 30:40
Genesis 30:40
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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. |
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GEN 30:41
Genesis 30:41
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And it came to pass, whensoever 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. |
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GEN 30:42
Genesis 30:42
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But when the cattle were feeble, he put them
not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's. |
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GEN 30:43
Genesis 30:43
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And the man increased exceedingly, and had much
cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses. |
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