vw - Genesis:29-31

vw@Genesis:29:1 @ So Jacob lifted his feet and came into the land of the sons of the East.

vw@Genesis:29:2 @ And he looked, and behold a well in the field; and behold, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks. And a large stone was on the wells mouth.

vw@Genesis:29:3 @ And all the flocks would be gathered there; and they would roll the stone from the wells mouth, water the sheep, and put the stone back in its place on the wells mouth.

vw@Genesis:29:4 @ And Jacob said to them, My brethren, where are you from? And they said, We are from Haran.

vw@Genesis:29:5 @ And he said to them, Do you know Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We know him.

vw@Genesis:29:6 @ And he said to them, Is he well? And they said, He is well. And behold, his daughter Rachel is coming with the sheep.

vw@Genesis:29:7 @ And he said, Behold, it is still high day; it is not the time for cattle to be gathered together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them.

vw@Genesis:29:8 @ But they said, We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together, and they have rolled the stone from the wells mouth; then we water the sheep.

vw@Genesis:29:9 @ And while he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her fathers sheep, for she was tending them.

vw@Genesis:29:10 @ And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mothers brother, and the sheep of Laban his mothers brother, that Jacob went near and rolled the stone from the wells mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mothers brother.

vw@Genesis:29:11 @ And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice and wept.

vw@Genesis:29:12 @ And Jacob told Rachel that he was her fathers relative and that he was Rebekahs son. So she ran and told her father.

vw@Genesis:29:13 @ And it came to pass, when Laban heard the report about Jacob his sisters son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him and kissed him, and brought him to his house. So he told Laban all these things.

vw@Genesis:29:14 @ And Laban said to him, Surely you are my bone and my flesh. And he stayed with him a month of days.

vw@Genesis:29:15 @ And Laban said to Jacob, Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?

vw@Genesis:29:16 @ Now Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

vw@Genesis:29:17 @ Leahs eyes were delicate, but Rachel had a beautiful figure and a beautiful appearance.

vw@Genesis:29:18 @ And Jacob loved Rachel; so he said, I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter.

vw@Genesis:29:19 @ And Laban said, It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.

vw@Genesis:29:20 @ So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they were only a day in his eyes because of the love he had for her.

vw@Genesis:29:21 @ And Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife that I may go in to her, for my days have been fulfilled.

vw@Genesis:29:22 @ And Laban gathered together all the men of the place and made a feast.

vw@Genesis:29:23 @ And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter and brought her to him; and he went in to her.

vw@Genesis:29:24 @ And Laban gave his maid Zilpah to his daughter Leah as a maidservant.

vw@Genesis:29:25 @ And it came to pass in the morning, that behold, it was Leah. And he said to Laban, What is this you have done to me? Was it not for Rachel that I served you? Why then have you deceived me?

vw@Genesis:29:26 @ And Laban said, It is not done so in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.

vw@Genesis:29:27 @ Fulfill her week, and we will give you this one also for the service which you will serve with me yet another seven years.

vw@Genesis:29:28 @ And Jacob did so and fulfilled her week. So he gave him his daughter Rachel as wife also.

vw@Genesis:29:29 @ And Laban gave his maid Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as a maidservant.

vw@Genesis:29:30 @ And Jacob also went in to Rachel, and he also loved Rachel more than Leah. And he served with him yet another seven years.

vw@Genesis:29:31 @ When Jehovah saw that Leah was hated, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

vw@Genesis:29:32 @ And Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben; for she said, Jehovah has surely looked upon my affliction. Now therefore, my husband will love me.

vw@Genesis:29:33 @ And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, Because Jehovah has heard that I am hated, He has therefore given me this one also. And she called his name Simeon.

vw@Genesis:29:34 @ And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, Now this time my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons. Therefore his name was called Levi.

vw@Genesis:29:35 @ And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, Now I will praise Jehovah. Therefore she called his name Judah. Then she stopped giving birth.

vw@Genesis:30:1 @ Now when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel was jealous of her sister, and said to Jacob, Give me sons, or if not I shall die!

vw@Genesis:30:2 @ And Jacobs anger burned against Rachel, and he said, Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?

vw@Genesis:30:3 @ And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah; go in to her, and she shall give birth on my knees, that I also may be built up by her.

vw@Genesis:30:4 @ And she gave him Bilhah her maid as wife, and Jacob went in to her.

vw@Genesis:30:5 @ And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.

vw@Genesis:30:6 @ And Rachel said, God has judged my case, and has also heard my voice and given me a son. Therefore she called his name Daniel.

vw@Genesis:30:7 @ And Rachels maid Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.

vw@Genesis:30:8 @ And Rachel said, With great wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed. So she called his name Naphtali.

vw@Genesis:30:9 @ And when Leah saw that she had stopped giving birth, she took Zilpah her maid and gave her to Jacob as wife.

vw@Genesis:30:10 @ And Leahs maid Zilpah bore Jacob a son.

vw@Genesis:30:11 @ And Leah said, Good fortune has come! So she called his name Gad.

vw@Genesis:30:12 @ And Leahs maid Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.

vw@Genesis:30:13 @ And Leah said, I am happy, for the daughters shall call me blessed. So she called his name Asher.

vw@Genesis:30:14 @ And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. And Rachel said to Leah, Please give me some of your sons mandrakes.

vw@Genesis:30:15 @ And she said to her, Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my sons mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your sons mandrakes.

vw@Genesis:30:16 @ When Jacob came out of the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, You must come in to me, for hiring I have hired you with my sons mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.

vw@Genesis:30:17 @ And God gave heed to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.

vw@Genesis:30:18 @ And Leah said, God has given me my wages, because I have given my maid to my husband. So she called his name Issachar.

vw@Genesis:30:19 @ And Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a sixth son.

vw@Genesis:30:20 @ And Leah said, God has endowed me with a good endowment; this time my husband will dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons. So she called his name Zebulun.

vw@Genesis:30:21 @ And afterward she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah.

vw@Genesis:30:22 @ And God remembered Rachel, and God gave heed to her and opened her womb.

vw@Genesis:30:23 @ And she conceived and bore a son, and said, God has taken away my reproach.

vw@Genesis:30:24 @ So she called his name Joseph, and said, Jehovah shall add to me another son.

vw@Genesis:30:25 @ And it came to pass, 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 land.

vw@Genesis:30:26 @ 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.

vw@Genesis:30:27 @ And Laban said to him, Please stay, if I have found favor in your eyes, for I have observed the signs that Jehovah has blessed me because of you.

vw@Genesis:30:28 @ And he said, Specify your wages to me, and I will give it.

vw@Genesis:30:29 @ So Jacob said to him, You know how I have served you and how your livestock is with me.

vw@Genesis:30:30 @ For what you had before I came was little, and it has increased into a multitude; Jehovah has blessed you since I stepped foot here. And now, when shall I also provide for my own house?

vw@Genesis:30:31 @ So he said, What shall I give you? And Jacob said, You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will turn back to feed and keep your flocks:

vw@Genesis:30:32 @ Let me pass through all your flock today, removing from there all the speckled and spotted sheep, and all the brown ones among the lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and these shall be my wages.

vw@Genesis:30:33 @ So my righteousness shall testify for me in time to come, when the subject of my wages comes before you: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the lambs, will be considered stolen, if it is with me.

vw@Genesis:30:34 @ And Laban said, Oh, that it were according to your word!

vw@Genesis:30:35 @ So he removed that day the male goats that were speckled and spotted, all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had some white in it, and all the brown ones among the lambs, and gave them into the hand of his sons.

vw@Genesis:30:36 @ And he put three days journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Labans flocks.

vw@Genesis:30:37 @ And Jacob took for himself rods of green poplar and of the almond and plane trees, peeled white strips in them, and laid bare the white which was in the rods.

vw@Genesis:30:38 @ And the rods which he had peeled, he set before the flocks in the troughs, in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink, so that they should come into heat when they came to drink.

vw@Genesis:30:39 @ And the flocks mated before the rods, and the flocks gave birth to streaked, speckled, and spotted.

vw@Genesis:30:40 @ And Jacob separated the lambs, and made the flocks face toward the streaked and all the brown in the flock of Laban; but he put his own flocks by themselves and did not put them with Labans flock.

vw@Genesis:30:41 @ And it came to pass, whenever the stronger livestock were in heat, that Jacob placed the rods before the eyes of the livestock in the troughs, that they might mate among the rods.

vw@Genesis:30:42 @ And when the flocks were feeble, he did not put them in; so the feebler were Labans and the stronger Jacobs.

vw@Genesis:30:43 @ And the man increased exceedingly greatly, and had many cattle, female and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

vw@Genesis:31:1 @ Now Jacob heard the words of Labans sons, saying, Jacob has taken away all that was our fathers, and from what was our fathers he has acquired all this wealth.

vw@Genesis:31:2 @ And Jacob saw the countenance of Laban, and behold, it was not toward him as before.

vw@Genesis:31:3 @ And Jehovah said to Jacob, Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.

vw@Genesis:31:4 @ So Jacob sent and summoned Rachel and Leah to the field, to his flock,

vw@Genesis:31:5 @ and said to them, I see your fathers countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me.

vw@Genesis:31:6 @ And you know that with all my strength I have served your father.

vw@Genesis:31:7 @ Yet your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times, but God has not allowed him to do evil to me.

vw@Genesis:31:8 @ If he said thus: The speckled shall be your wages, then all the flocks bore speckled. And if he said thus: The streaked shall be your wages, then all the flocks bore streaked.

vw@Genesis:31:9 @ So God has taken away the livestock of your father and given them to me.

vw@Genesis:31:10 @ And it happened, at the time when the flocks were in heat, that I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream, and behold, the rams which mounted the flocks were streaked, speckled, and spotted.

vw@Genesis:31:11 @ And the Angel of God spoke to me in a dream, saying, Jacob. And I said, Here am I.

vw@Genesis:31:12 @ And He said, Lift up your eyes now and see, all the rams which mount the flocks are streaked, speckled, and spotted; for I have seen all that Laban is doing to you.

vw@Genesis:31:13 @ I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar and where you vowed a vow to Me. Now arise, get out of this land, and return to the land of your kindred.

vw@Genesis:31:14 @ And Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our fathers house?

vw@Genesis:31:15 @ Are we not considered foreigners by him? For he has sold us, and also devoured and consumed our money.

vw@Genesis:31:16 @ For all these riches which God has taken from our father are ours and our sons. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do it.

vw@Genesis:31:17 @ Then Jacob arose and set his sons and his wives on camels.

vw@Genesis:31:18 @ And he drove away all his livestock and all his possessions which he had gained, his acquired livestock which he had gained in Paddan, to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan.

vw@Genesis:31:19 @ And Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel had stolen the household idols that were her fathers.

vw@Genesis:31:20 @ And Jacob stole away, unknown to Laban the Aramean, in that he did not tell him that he was fleeing.

vw@Genesis:31:21 @ So he fled with all that he had. He arose and crossed the river, and set his face toward the mountains of Gilead.

vw@Genesis:31:22 @ And Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled.

vw@Genesis:31:23 @ And he took his brethren with him and pursued him for seven days journey, and he overtook him in the mountains of Gilead.

vw@Genesis:31:24 @ And God come to Laban the Aramean in a dream by night, and said to him, Beware that you not speak to Jacob from good to evil.

vw@Genesis:31:25 @ So Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountains, and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mountains of Gilead.

vw@Genesis:31:26 @ And Laban said to Jacob: What have you done, that you have stolen away unknown to me, and led away my daughters like captives of the sword?

vw@Genesis:31:27 @ Why did you flee away secretly, and steal away from me, and not tell me; for I might have sent you away with joy and songs, with timbrel and harp?

vw@Genesis:31:28 @ And you did not allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters. Now you have done foolishly in so doing.

vw@Genesis:31:29 @ It is in the power of my hand to do you harm, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, Beware that you not speak to Jacob from good to evil.

vw@Genesis:31:30 @ And now you have proceeded to depart because you have longed for your fathers house. But why have you stolen my gods?

vw@Genesis:31:31 @ And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid; for I said, Lest you would take your daughters from me by force.

vw@Genesis:31:32 @ With whomever you find your gods, do not let him live. In the presence of our brethren, identify what I have of yours and take it with you. For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

vw@Genesis:31:33 @ And Laban went into Jacobs tent, into Leahs tent, and into the two maidservants tents, but he did not find them. Then he went out of Leahs tent and entered Rachels tent.

vw@Genesis:31:34 @ Now Rachel had taken the household idols, put them in the camels saddle, and sat on them. And Laban groped all about the tent but did not find them.

vw@Genesis:31:35 @ And she said to her father, Let it not burn in the eyes of my lord that I cannot rise before you, for the manner of women is with me. And he searched but did not find the household idols.

vw@Genesis:31:36 @ And Jacob was furious and complained to Laban, and Jacob answered and said to Laban: What is my transgression? What is my sin, that you have so hotly pursued me?

vw@Genesis:31:37 @ Although you have searched all my things, what of your household articles have you found? Set it here before my brethren and your brethren, that they may judge between us both!

vw@Genesis:31:38 @ These twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried their young, and I have not eaten the rams of your flock.

vw@Genesis:31:39 @ That which was torn by beasts I did not bring to you; I bore the loss of it. You required it from my hand, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

vw@Genesis:31:40 @ There I was: In the day the heat consumed me, and the frost by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.

vw@Genesis:31:41 @ Thus I have been in your house twenty years; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.

vw@Genesis:31:42 @ Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and rebuked you last night.

vw@Genesis:31:43 @ And Laban answered and said to Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks; all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day to these my daughters or to their children whom they have borne?

vw@Genesis:31:44 @ Now therefore, come, let us make a covenant, you and me, and let it be a witness between you and me.

vw@Genesis:31:45 @ So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a monument.

vw@Genesis:31:46 @ And Jacob said to his brethren, Gather stones. And they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there on the heap.

vw@Genesis:31:47 @ Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.

vw@Genesis:31:48 @ And Laban said, This heap is a witness between you and me this day. Therefore its name was called Galeed;

vw@Genesis:31:49 @ also, Mizpah; because he said, May Jehovah watch between you and me when we are hidden (being absent) one from another.

vw@Genesis:31:50 @ If you afflict my daughters, or if you take other wives besides my daughters, although no man is with us; consider that God is witness between you and me.

vw@Genesis:31:51 @ And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap and this pillar, which I have cast between me and you:

vw@Genesis:31:52 @ This heap is a witness, and this pillar is a testimony, that I will not pass beyond this heap to you, and you will not pass beyond this heap and this pillar to me, for evil.

vw@Genesis:31:53 @ The God of Abraham, the God of Nahor, and the God of their father judge between us. And Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac.

vw@Genesis:31:54 @ And Jacob slaughtered a sacrifice on the mountain, and called his brethren to eat bread. And they ate bread and stayed all night on the mountain.

vw@Genesis:31:55 @ And early in the morning Laban arose, and kissed his sons and daughters and blessed them. And Laban departed and returned to his place.

vw@Genesis:32:1 @ So Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.