Genesis:30-31
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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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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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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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And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife :
and Jacob went in unto her .
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And Bilhah conceived ,
and bare Jacob a son .
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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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And Bilhah Rachel '
s maid conceived again ,
and bare Jacob a second son .
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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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When Leah saw that she had left bearing ,
she took Zilpah her maid ,
and gave her Jacob to wife .
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And Zilpah Leah '
s maid bare Jacob a son .
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And Leah said ,
A troop cometh :
and she called his name Gad .
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And Zilpah Leah '
s maid bare Jacob a second son .
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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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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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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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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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And God hearkened unto Leah ,
and she conceived ,
and bare Jacob the fifth son .
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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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And Leah conceived again ,
and bare Jacob the sixth son .
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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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And afterwards she bare a daughter ,
and called her name Dinah .
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And God remembered Rachel ,
and God hearkened to her ,
and opened her womb .
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And she conceived ,
and bare a son ;
and said ,
God hath taken away my reproach :
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And she called his name Joseph ;
and said ,
The LORD shall add to me another son .
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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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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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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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And he said ,
Appoint me thy wages ,
and I will give it .
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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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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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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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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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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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And Laban said ,
Behold ,
I would it might be according to thy word .
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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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And he set three days '
journey betwixt himself and Jacob :
and Jacob fed the rest of Laban '
s flocks .
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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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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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And the flocks conceived before the rods ,
and brought forth cattle ringstraked ,
speckled ,
and spotted .
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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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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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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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And the man increased exceedingly ,
and had much cattle ,
and maidservants ,
and menservants ,
and camels ,
and asses .
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And he heard the words of Laban '
s sons ,
saying ,
Jacob hath taken away all that was our father '
s ;
and of that which was our father '
s hath he gotten all this glory .
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And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban ,
and ,
behold ,
it was not toward him as before .
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And the LORD said unto Jacob ,
Return unto the land of thy fathers ,
and to thy kindred ;
and I will be with thee .
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And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock ,
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And said unto them ,
I see your father '
s countenance ,
that it is not toward me as before ;
but the God of my father hath been with me .
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And ye know that with all my power I have served your father .
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And your father hath deceived me ,
and changed my wages ten times ;
but God suffered him not to hurt me .
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If he said thus ,
The speckled shall be thy wages ;
then all the cattle bare speckled :
and if he said thus ,
The ringstraked shall be thy hire ;
then bare all the cattle ringstraked .
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Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father ,
and given them to me .
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And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived ,
that I lifted up mine eyes ,
and saw in a dream ,
and ,
behold ,
the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked ,
speckled ,
and grisled .
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And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream ,
saying ,
Jacob :
And I said ,
Here am I .
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And he said ,
Lift up now thine eyes ,
and see ,
all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked ,
speckled ,
and grisled :
for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee .
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I am the God of Bethel ,
where thou anointedst the pillar ,
and where thou vowedst a vow unto me :
now arise ,
get thee out from this land ,
and return unto the land of thy kindred .
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And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him ,
Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father '
s house ?
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Are we not counted of him strangers ?
for he hath sold us ,
and hath quite devoured also our money .
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For all the riches which God hath taken from our father ,
that is ours ,
and our children '
s :
now then ,
whatsoever God hath said unto thee ,
do .
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Then Jacob rose up ,
and set his sons and his wives upon camels ;
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And he carried away all his cattle ,
and all his goods which he had gotten ,
the cattle of his getting ,
which he had gotten in Padanaram ,
for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan .
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And Laban went to shear his sheep :
and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father '
s .
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And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian ,
in that he told him not that he fled .
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So he fled with all that he had ;
and he rose up ,
and passed over the river ,
and set his face toward the mount Gilead .
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And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled .
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And he took his brethren with him ,
and pursued after him seven days '
journey ;
and they overtook him in the mount Gilead .
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And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night ,
and said unto him ,
Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad .
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Then Laban overtook Jacob .
Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount :
and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead .
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And Laban said to Jacob ,
What hast thou done ,
that thou hast stolen away unawares to me ,
and carried away my daughters ,
as captives taken with the sword ?
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Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly ,
and steal away from me ;
and didst not tell me ,
that I might have sent thee away with mirth ,
and with songs ,
with tabret ,
and with harp ?
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And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters ?
thou hast now done foolishly in so doing .
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It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt :
but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight ,
saying ,
Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad .
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And now ,
though thou wouldest needs be gone ,
because thou sore longedst after thy father '
s house ,
yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods ?
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And Jacob answered and said to Laban ,
Because I was afraid :
for I said ,
Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from me .
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With whomsoever thou findest thy gods ,
let him not live :
before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me ,
and take it to thee .
For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them .
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And Laban went into Jacob '
s tent ,
and into Leah '
s tent ,
and into the two maidservants '
tents ;
but he found them not .
Then went he out of Leah '
s tent ,
and entered into Rachel '
s tent .
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Now Rachel had taken the images ,
and put them in the camel '
s furniture ,
and sat upon them .
And Laban searched all the tent ,
but found them not .
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And she said to her father ,
Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee ;
for the custom of women is upon me .
And he searched ,
but found not the images .
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And Jacob was wroth ,
and chode with Laban :
and Jacob answered and said to Laban ,
What is my trespass ?
what is my sin ,
that thou hast so hotly pursued after me ?
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Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff ,
what hast thou found of all thy household stuff ?
set it here before my brethren and thy brethren ,
that they may judge betwixt us both .
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This twenty years have I been with thee ;
thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young ,
and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten .
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That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee ;
I bare the loss of it ;
of my hand didst thou require it ,
whether stolen by day ,
or stolen by night .
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Thus I was ;
in the day the drought consumed me ,
and the frost by night ;
and my sleep departed from mine eyes .
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Thus have I been twenty years in thy house ;
I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters ,
and six years for thy cattle :
and thou hast changed my wages ten times .
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Except the God of my father ,
the God of Abraham ,
and the fear of Isaac ,
had been with me ,
surely thou hadst sent me away now empty .
God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands ,
and rebuked thee yesternight .
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And Laban answered and said unto Jacob ,
These daughters are my daughters ,
and these children are my children ,
and these cattle are my cattle ,
and all that thou seest is mine :
and what can I do this day unto these my daughters ,
or unto their children which they have born ?
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Now therefore come thou ,
let us make a covenant ,
I and thou ;
and let it be for a witness between me and thee .
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And Jacob took a stone ,
and set it up for a pillar .
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And Jacob said unto his brethren ,
Gather stones ;
and they took stones ,
and made an heap :
and they did eat there upon the heap .
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And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha :
but Jacob called it Galeed .
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And Laban said ,
This heap is a witness between me and thee this day .
Therefore was the name of it called Galeed ;
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And Mizpah ;
for he said ,
The LORD watch between me and thee ,
when we are absent one from another .
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If thou shalt afflict my daughters ,
or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters ,
no man is with us ;
see ,
God is witness betwixt me and thee .
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And Laban said to Jacob ,
Behold this heap ,
and behold this pillar ,
which I have cast betwixt me and thee ;
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This heap be witness ,
and this pillar be witness ,
that I will not pass over this heap to thee ,
and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me ,
for harm .
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The God of Abraham ,
and the God of Nahor ,
the God of their father ,
judge betwixt us .
And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac .
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Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount ,
and called his brethren to eat bread :
and they did eat bread ,
and tarried all night in the mount .
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And early in the morning Laban rose up ,
and kissed his sons and his daughters ,
and blessed them :
and Laban departed ,
and returned unto his place .
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And Jacob went on his way ,
and the angels of God met him .
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