Genesis 30

1 When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”

And Rachel sees that she has not borne to Jacob, and Rachel is envious of her sister, and says to Jacob, “Give me sons, and if there is none—I die.”

2 Jacob’s anger burnt against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

And Jacob’s anger burns against Rachel, and he says, “Am I in stead of God who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

3 She said, “Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her.”

And she says, “Behold, my handmaid Bilhah, go in to her, and she bears on my knees, and I am built up, even I, from her”;

4 She gave him Bilhah her servant as wife, and Jacob went in to her.

and she gives Bilhah her maidservant to him for a wife, and Jacob goes in to her;

5 Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.

and Bilhah conceives, and bears a son to Jacob,

6 Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son.” Therefore she called his name Dan.

and Rachel says, “God has decided for me, and has also listened to my voice, and gives a son to me”; therefore she has called his name Dan.

7 Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.

And Bilhah, Rachel’s maidservant, conceives again, and bears a second son to Jacob,

8 Rachel said, “I have wrestled with my sister with mighty wrestlings, and have prevailed.” She named him Naphtali.

and Rachel says, “With wrestlings of God I have wrestled with my sister, indeed, I have prevailed”; and she calls his name Napthali.

9 When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her servant, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

And Leah sees that she has ceased from bearing, and she takes Zilpah her maidservant, and gives her to Jacob for a wife;

10 Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a son.

and Zilpah, Leah’s maidservant, bears a son to Jacob,

11 Leah said, “How fortunate!” She named him Gad.

and Leah says, “A troop is coming”; and she calls his name Gad.

12 Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a second son.

And Zilpah, Leah’s maidservant, bears a second son to Jacob,

13 Leah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy.” She named him Asher.

and Leah says, “Because of my happiness, for daughters have pronounced me blessed”; and she calls his name Asher.

14 Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

And Reuben goes in the days of wheat-harvest, and finds love-apples in the field, and brings them to his mother Leah, and Rachel says to Leah, “Please give to me of the love-apples of your son.”

15 Leah said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes, also?” Rachel said, “Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son’s mandrakes.”

And she says to her, “Is your taking my husband a little thing, that you have also taken the love-apples of my son?” And Rachel says, “He therefore lies with you tonight, for your son’s love-apples.”

16 Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, “You must come in to me; for I have surely hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” He lay with her that night.

And Jacob comes in from the field at evening; and Leah goes to meet him and says, “You come in to me, for [in] hiring I have hired you with my son’s love-apples”; and he lies with her during that night.

17 God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.

And God listens to Leah, and she conceives, and bears a son to Jacob, a fifth,

18 Leah said, “God has given me my hire, because I gave my servant to my husband.” She named him Issachar.

and Leah says, “God has given my hire, because I have given my maidservant to my husband”; and she calls his name Issachar.

19 Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.

And Leah conceives again, and she bears a sixth son to Jacob,

20 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.

and Leah says, “God has endowed me—a good dowry; this time my husband dwells with me, for I have borne six sons to him”; and she calls his name Zebulun;

21 Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.

and afterward she has borne a daughter, and calls her name Dinah.

22 God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

And God remembers Rachel, and God listens to her, and opens her womb,

23 She conceived, bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”

and she conceives and bears a son, and says, “God has gathered up my reproach”;

24 She named him Joseph, saying, “May the LORD add another son to me.”

and she calls his name Joseph, saying, “YHWH is adding to me another son.”

25 When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.

And it comes to pass, when Rachel has borne Joseph, that Jacob says to Laban, “Send me away, and I go to my place, and to my land;

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.”

give up my wives and my children, for whom I have served you, and I go; for you have known my service which I have served you.”

27 Laban said to him, “If now I have found favour in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that the LORD has blessed me for your sake.”

And Laban says to him, “Now if I have found grace in your eyes—I have observed diligently that YHWH blesses me for your sake.”

28 He said, “Appoint me your wages, and I will give it.”

He also says, “Define your hire to me, and I give.”

29 Jacob said to him, “You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.

And he says to him, “You have known that which I have served you [in], and that which your substance was with me;

30 For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. The LORD has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?”

for [it is] little which you have had at my appearance, and it breaks forth into a multitude, and YHWH blesses you at my coming; and now, when do I make, I also, for my own house?”

31 Laban 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.

And he says, “What do I give to you?” And Jacob says, “You do not give me anything; if you do this thing for me, I turn back; I have delight; I watch your flock;

32 I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one amongst the sheep, and the spotted and speckled amongst the goats. This will be my hire.

I pass through all your flock today to turn aside every speckled and spotted sheep from there, and every brown sheep among the lambs, and speckled and spotted among the goats—and it has been my hire;

33 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 amongst the goats, and black amongst the sheep, that might be with me, will be considered stolen.”

and my righteousness has answered for me in the day to come, when it comes in for my hire before your face—everyone which is not speckled and spotted among [my] goats, and brown among [my] lambs—it is stolen with me.”

34 Laban said, “Behold, let it be according to your word.”

And Laban says, “Behold, O that it were according to your word”;

35 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 amongst the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.

and he turns aside during that day the striped and the spotted male goats, and all the speckled and the spotted female goats, everyone that [has] white in it, and every brown one among the lambs, and he gives into the hand of his sons,

36 He set three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.

and sets a journey of three days between himself and Jacob; and Jacob is feeding the rest of the flock of Laban.

37 Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, and plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.

And Jacob takes to himself a rod of fresh poplar and almond and plane-tree, and peels in them white peelings, making bare the white that [is] on the rods,

38 He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink.

and sets up the rods which he has peeled in the gutters in the watering troughs (where the flock comes to drink), in front of the flock, that they may conceive in their coming to drink;

39 The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks produced streaked, speckled, and spotted.

and the flocks conceive at the rods, and the flock bears striped, speckled, and spotted ones.

40 Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks towards the streaked and all the black in Laban’s flock. He put his own droves apart, and didn’t put them into Laban’s flock.

And Jacob has parted the lambs, and he puts the face of the flock toward the striped, also all the brown in the flock of Laban, and he sets his own droves by themselves, and has not set them near Laban’s flock.

41 Whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, Jacob laid the rods in front of the eyes of the flock in the watering troughs, that they might conceive amongst the rods;

And it has come to pass, whenever the strong ones of the flock conceive, that Jacob sets the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, to cause them to conceive by the rods,

42 but when the flock were feeble, he didn’t put them in. So the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.

and when the flock is feeble, he does not set [them]; and the feeble ones have been Laban’s, and the strong ones Jacob’s.

43 The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

And the man increases very exceedingly, and has many flocks, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and donkeys.