He lay with her that night.
030:017 God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob
a fifth son.
030:018 Leah said, "God has given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid
to my husband." She named him Issachar.
030:019 Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.
030:020 Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my
husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons."
She named him Zebulun.
030:021 Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.
030:022 God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.
030:023 She conceived, bore a son, and said, "God has taken
away my reproach."
030:024 She named him Joseph,{Joseph means "may he add."} saying,
"May Yahweh add another son to me."
030:025 It happened, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said
to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my own place,
and to my country.
030:026 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."
030:027 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."
030:028 He said, "Appoint me your wages, and I will give it."
030:029 He said to him, "You know how I have served you, and how your
livestock have fared with me.
030:030 For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased
to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned.
Now when will I provide for my own house also?"
030:031 He said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob said, "You shall
not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me,
I will again feed your flock and keep it.
030:032 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.
030:033 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 counted stolen."
030:034 Laban said, "Behold, I desire it to be according to your word."
030:035 That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted,
and all the female 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.
030:036 He set three days' journey between himself and Jacob,
and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
030:037 Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, plane tree,
peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear
which was in the rods.
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