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And Rachel seeth that she hath not borne to Jacob , and Rachel is envious of her sister , and saith unto Jacob , `Give me sons, and if there is none -- I die .'
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And Jacob 's anger burneth against Rachel , and he saith , `Am I in stead of God who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb ?'
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And she saith , `Lo, my handmaid Bilhah , go in unto her, and she doth bear on my knees , and I am built up, even I, from her;'
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and she giveth to him Bilhah her maid-servant for a wife , and Jacob goeth in unto her;
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and Bilhah conceiveth, and beareth to Jacob a son ,
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and Rachel saith , `God hath decided for me, and also hath hearkened to my voice , and giveth to me a son ;' therefore hath she called his name Dan .
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And Bilhah , Rachel's maid-servant, conceiveth again, and beareth a second son to Jacob ,
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and Rachel saith , `With wrestlings of God I have wrestled with my sister , yea, I have prevailed;' and she calleth his name Napthali.
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And Leah seeth that she hath ceased from bearing, and she taketh Zilpah her maid-servant, and giveth her to Jacob for a wife ;
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and Zilpah , Leah's maid-servant, beareth to Jacob a son ,
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and Leah saith , `A troop is coming ;' and she calleth his name Gad .
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And Zilpah , Leah's maid-servant, beareth a second son to Jacob ,
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and Leah saith , `Because of my happiness, for daughters have pronounced me happy;' and she calleth his name Asher.
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And Reuben goeth in the days of wheat-harvest , and findeth love-apples in the field , and bringeth them in unto Leah, his mother , and Rachel saith unto Leah, `Give to me, I pray thee, of the love-apples of thy son .'
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And she saith to her, `Is thy taking my husband a little thing, that thou hast taken also the love-apples of my son ?' and Rachel saith , `Therefore doth he lie with thee to-night , for thy son's love-apples.'
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And Jacob cometh in from the field at evening ; and Leah goeth to meet him, and saith , `Unto me dost thou come in, for hiring I have hired thee with my son's love-apples;' and he lieth with her during that night .
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And God hearkeneth unto Leah, and she conceiveth, and beareth to Jacob a son , a fifth,
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and Leah saith , `God hath given my hire , because I have given my maid-servant to my husband ;' and she calleth his name Issachar .
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And conceive again doth Leah, and she beareth a sixth son to Jacob ,
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and Leah saith , `God hath endowed me -- a good dowry; this time doth my husband dwell with me, for I have borne to him six sons;' and she calleth his name Zebulun;
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and afterwards hath she born a daughter, and calleth her name Dinah.
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And God remembereth Rachel , and God hearkeneth unto her, and openeth her womb ,
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and she conceiveth and beareth a son , and saith , `God hath gathered up my reproach ;'
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and she calleth his name Joseph , saying, `Jehovah is adding to me another son .'
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And it cometh to pass, when Rachel hath borne Joseph , that Jacob saith unto Laban , `Send me away, and I go unto my place , and to my land ;
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give up my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and I go ; for thou -- thou hast known my service which I have served thee.'
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And Laban saith unto him, `If, I pray thee, I have found grace in thine eyes -- I have observed diligently that Jehovah doth bless me for thy sake.'
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He saith also, `Define thy hire to me, and I give .'
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And he saith unto him, `Thou -- thou hast known that which I have served thee [in], and that which thy substance was with me;
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for [it is] little which thou hast had at my appearance, and it breaketh forth into a multitude, and Jehovah blesseth thee at my coming; and now, when do I make, I also, for mine own house ?'
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And he saith , `What do I give to thee?' And Jacob saith , `Thou dost not give me anything; if thou do for me this thing, I turn back ; I have delight; thy flock I watch;
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I pass through all thy flock to-day to turn aside from thence every sheep speckled and spotted , and every brown sheep among the lambs, and speckled and spotted among the goats -- and it hath been my hire ;
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and my righteousness hath answered for me in the day to come , when it cometh in for my hire before thy face ; -- every one which is not speckled and spotted among [my] goats , and brown among [my] lambs -- it is stolen with me.'
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And Laban saith , `Lo, O that it were according to thy word ;'
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and he turneth aside during that day the ring-straked and the spotted he-goats , and all the speckled and the spotted she-goats , every one that [hath] white in it, and every brown one among the lambs, and he giveth into the hand of his sons,
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and setteth a journey of three days between himself and Jacob ; and Jacob is feeding the rest of the flock of Laban .
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And Jacob taketh to himself a rod of fresh poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut, and doth peel in them white peelings, making bare the white that [is] on the rods,
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and setteth up the rods which he hath peeled in the gutters in the watering troughs (when the flock cometh in to drink ), over-against the flock , that they may conceive in their coming in to drink ;
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and the flocks conceive at the rods, and the flock beareth ring-straked, speckled, and spotted ones.
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And the lambs hath Jacob parted, and he putteth the face of the flock towards the ring-straked, also all the brown in the flock of Laban , and he setteth his own droves by themselves, and hath not set them near Laban's flock .
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And it hath come to pass whenever the strong ones of the flock conceive, that Jacob set the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters , to cause them to conceive by the rods,
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and when the flock is feeble, he doth not set [them]; and the feeble ones have been Laban's , and the strong ones Jacob 's.
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And the man increaseth very exceedingly, and hath many flocks , and maid-servants , and men -servants , and camels , and asses .