Genesis 30 Parallel Bible

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	BISHOPS Bishops' Bible of 1568	ESV English Standard Version	NIV New International Version
1	Rachel when she sawe that she bare Iacob no children, she enuied her sister, and sayde vnto Iacob: Geue me children, or els I am but dead.	When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I shall die!”	When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she became jealous of her sister. So she said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I’ll die!”
2	And Iacobs anger was kyndled agaynst Rachel, and sayde: Am I in Gods steade, whiche kepeth from thee the fruite of thy wombe?	Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”	Jacob became angry with her and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?”
3	Then she sayde: Here is my mayde Bilha, go in vnto her, & she shall beare vpon my knees, that I also may haue chyldren by her.	Then she said, “Here is my servant Bilhah; go in to her, so that she may give birth on my behalf, that even I may have children through her.”	Then she said, “Here is Bilhah, my servant. Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and I too can build a family through her.”
4	And she gaue him Bilha her handmayde to wyfe: and Iacob went in vnto her.	So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.	So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife. Jacob slept with her,
5	And Bilha conceaued, and bare Iacob a sonne.	And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.	and she became pregnant and bore him a son.
6	Then saide Rachel: God hath geuen sentence on my side, and hath also heard my voyce, and hath geuen me a sonne: therfore called she hym Dan.	Then Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice and given me a son.” Therefore she called his name Dan.	Then Rachel said, “God has vindicated me; he has listened to my plea and given me a son.” Because of this she named him Dan.
7	And Bilha Rachels seruant conceaued againe, & bare Iacob another sonne.	Rachel’s servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.	Rachel’s servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.
8	And Rachel said: With godly wrastlynges haue I wrastled with my sister, & haue gotten the vpper hande: and she called his name Nephthali.	Then Rachel said, “With mighty wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister and have prevailed.” So she called his name Naphtali.	Then Rachel said, “I have had a great struggle with my sister, and I have won.” So she named him Naphtali.
9	When Lea sawe that she had left bearyng chyldren she toke Zilpha her mayde, and gaue her Iacob to wyfe.	When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took her servant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.	When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took her servant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
10	And Zilpha Leas mayde bare Iacob a sonne.	Then Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son.	Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son.
11	Then sayde Lea, Good lucke: and called his name Gad.	And Leah said, “Good fortune has come!” so she called his name Gad.	Then Leah said, “What good fortune!” So she named him Gad.
12	And Zilpha Leas seruaunt bare Iacob an other sonne.	Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.	Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.
13	Then saide Lea: happy am I, for the daughters wyll call me blessed: and called his name Aser.	And Leah said, “Happy am I! For women have called me happy.” So she called his name Asher.	Then Leah said, “How happy I am! The women will call me happy.” So she named him Asher.
14	And Ruben went out in the dayes of the wheate haruest, & founde Mandragoras in the fielde, and brought them vnto his mother Lea. Then said Rachel to Lea: Geue me I praye thee of thy sonnes Mandragoras.	In the days of wheat harvest Reuben went 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.”	During wheat harvest, Reuben went out into the fields and found some mandrake plants, which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”
15	To whom Lea aunswered: Is it not enough that thou hast taken away my husband, but wouldest take away my sonnes Mandragoras also? Then saide Rachel: well, let hym sleepe with thee this night for thy sonnes Mandragoras.	But she 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, “Then he may lie with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”	But she said to her, “Wasn’t it enough that you took away my husband? Will you take my son’s mandrakes too?” “Very well,” Rachel said, “he can sleep with you tonight in return for your son’s mandrakes.”
16	And Iacob came from the fielde at euen, and Lea went out to meete hym, and sayde: thou shalt come in to me, for I haue bought thee in deede with my sonne Mandragoras. And he slept with her that same nyght.	When Jacob came from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come in to me, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he lay with her that night.	So when Jacob came in from the fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him. “You must sleep with me,” she said. “I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he slept with her that night.
17	And God hearde Lea, that she conceaued, and bare Iacob the fift sonne.	And God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.	God listened to Leah, and she became pregnant and bore Jacob a fifth son.
18	Then sayde Lea: God hath geuen me a rewarde, because I gaue my mayden to my husbande: and she called him Isachar.	Leah said, “God has given me my wages because I gave my servant to my husband.” So she called his name Issachar.	Then Leah said, “God has rewarded me for giving my servant to my husband.” So she named him Issachar.
19	And Lea conceaued yet agayne, and bare Iacob the sixt sonne.	And Leah conceived again, and she bore Jacob a sixth son.	Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a sixth son.
20	And Lea sayde: God hath endued me with a good dowrie, nowe wyll my husbande dwell with me, because I haue borne hym sixe sonnes: and called his name Zabulon.	Then Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good endowment; now my husband will honor me, because I have borne him six sons.” So she called his name Zebulun.	Then Leah said, “God has presented me with a precious gift. This time my husband will treat me with honor, because I have borne him six sons.” So she named him Zebulun.
21	After that, she bare a daughter, and called her name Dina.	Afterward she bore a daughter and called her name Dinah.	Some time later she gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah.
22	And God remembred Rachel, & God hearde her, and made her fruitefull,	Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb.	Then God remembered Rachel; he listened to her and enabled her to conceive.
23	So that she conceaued & bare a sonne: and sayde, God hath taken awaye my rebuke.	She conceived and bore a son and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”	She became pregnant and gave birth to a son and said, “God has taken away my disgrace.”
24	And she called his name Ioseph, saying: the Lorde geue me yet another sonne.	And she called his name Joseph, saying, “May the LORD add to me another son!”	She named him Joseph, and said, “May the LORD add to me another son.”
25	Assoone as Rachel had borne Ioseph, Iacob sayde to Laban: Send me away, that I maye go vnto my owne place, and to my countrey.	As soon as Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own home and country.	After Rachel gave birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so I can go back to my own homeland.
26	Geue me my wyues and my chyldren for whom I haue serued thee, and let me go: for thou knowest what seruice I haue done thee.	Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, that I may go, for you know the service that I have given you.”	Give me my wives and children, for whom I have served you, and I will be on my way. You know how much work I’ve done for you.”
27	To whom Laban aunswered: I pray thee, yf I haue founde fauour in thy syght tary : for I haue proued that the Lorde blessed me for thy sake.	But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your sight, I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you.	But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you.”
28	Also he sayde: Appoynt what thy rewarde shalbe, and I wyll geue it thee.	Name your wages, and I will give it.”	He added, “Name your wages, and I will pay them.”
29	But he saide vnto him: Thou knowest what seruice I haue done thee, and in what takyng thy cattell haue ben vnder me:	Jacob said to him, “You yourself know how I have served you, and how your livestock has fared with me.	Jacob said to him, “You know how I have worked for you and how your livestock has fared under my care.
30	For that litle which thou haddest before I came, is nowe increased into a multitude, and the Lord hath blessed thee through my trauell: but nowe when shall I make prouision for myne owne house also?	For you had little before I came, and it has increased abundantly, and the LORD has blessed you wherever I turned. But now when shall I provide for my own household also?”	The little you had before I came has increased greatly, and the LORD has blessed you wherever I have been. But now, when may I do something for my own household?”
31	And he sayde: What shall I then geue thee? And Iacob aunswered, Thou shalt geue me nothyng at all: yf thou wylt do this thyng for me, then wyll I turne agayne, feede thy sheepe, and kepe them.	He said, “What shall I give you?” Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this for me, I will again pasture your flock and keep it:	“What shall I give you?” he asked. “Don’t give me anything,” Jacob replied. “But if you will do this one thing for me, I will go on tending your flocks and watching over them:
32	I wyll go about all thy flockes this day, and seperate from them all the cattell that are spotted & of diuers colours: and all the blacke among the sheepe, & the partie & spotted amongst the kiddes the same shalbe my rewarde.	let me pass through all your flock today, removing from it every speckled and spotted sheep and every black lamb, and the spotted and speckled among the goats, and they shall be my wages.	Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb and every spotted or speckled goat. They will be my wages.
33	So shall my ryghteousnes aunswere for me in time to come: for it shal come for my rewarde before thy face. And euery one that is not specked and partie amongst the goates, & blacke amongst the sheepe, let it be compted theft in me.	So my honesty will answer for me later, when you come to look into my wages with you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and black among the lambs, if found with me, shall be counted stolen.”	And my honesty will testify for me in the future, whenever you check on the wages you have paid me. Any goat in my possession that is not speckled or spotted, or any lamb that is not dark-colored, will be considered stolen.”
34	And Laban sayde: go to, would God it myght be accordyng to thy saying.	Laban said, “Good! Let it be as you have said.”	“Agreed,” said Laban. “Let it be as you have said.”
35	Therfore he toke out the same day the hee goates that were ryngstraked and of diuers colours, & all the shee goates that were spotted and coloured, and all that had whyte in them, & all the blacke amongst the sheepe, and put them in the kepyng of his sonnes.	But that day Laban removed the male goats that were striped and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white on it, and every lamb that was black, and put them in the charge of his sons.	That same day he removed all the male goats that were streaked or spotted, and all the speckled or spotted female goats (all that had white on them) and all the dark-colored lambs, and he placed them in the care of his sons.
36	And set three dayes iourney betwixte himselfe and Iacob: and so Iacob kept the rest of Labans sheepe.	And he set a distance of three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob pastured the rest of Laban’s flock.	Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob continued to tend the rest of Laban’s flocks.
37	Iacob toke roddes of greene populer, hasell, and chesse nut trees, and pilled whyte strakes in them, and made the whyte appeare in the roddes.	Then Jacob took fresh sticks of poplar and almond and plane trees, and peeled white streaks in them, exposing the white of the sticks.	Jacob, however, took fresh-cut branches from poplar, almond and plane trees and made white stripes on them by peeling the bark and exposing the white inner wood of the branches.
38	And put the roddes which he had pilled, euen before the sheepe, in the gutters and watryng throughes when the sheepe came to drynke, that they should conceaue when they came to drynke.	He set the sticks that he had peeled in front of the flocks in the troughs, that is, the watering places, where the flocks came to drink. And since they bred when they came to drink,	Then he placed the peeled branches in all the watering troughs, so that they would be directly in front of the flocks when they came to drink. When the flocks were in heat and came to drink,
39	And the sheepe conceaued before the roddes, & brought foorth lambes ryngstraked, spotted, and partie.	the flocks bred in front of the sticks and so the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted.	they mated in front of the branches. And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.
40	And Iacob did seperate these lambes, and turned the faces of the sheepe whiche were in the flocke of Laban, towarde these ryngstraked, and al maner of blacke: and so put his owne flockes by them selues, and put them not with Labans cattell.	And Jacob separated the lambs and set the faces of the flocks toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban. He put his own droves apart and did not put them with Laban’s flock.	Jacob set apart the young of the flock by themselves, but made the rest face the streaked and dark-colored animals that belonged to Laban. Thus he made separate flocks for himself and did not put them with Laban’s animals.
41	And in euery conceauyng tyme of the stronger cattel, Iacob layed the roddes before the eyes of the cattell in the gutters, namely that they myght conceaue before the roddes.	Whenever the stronger of the flock were breeding, Jacob would lay the sticks in the troughs before the eyes of the flock, that they might breed among the sticks,	Whenever the stronger females were in heat, Jacob would place the branches in the troughs in front of the animals so they would mate near the branches,
42	But when the cattell were feeble, he put them not in: and so the feebler were Labans, and the stronger Iacobs.	but for the feebler of the flock he would not lay them there. So the feebler would be Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.	but if the animals were weak, he would not place them there. So the weak animals went to Laban and the strong ones to Jacob.
43	And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattell, and mayde seruauntes, and man seruauntes, and camels, and asses.	Thus the man increased greatly and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.	In this way the man grew exceedingly prosperous and came to own large flocks, and female and male servants, and camels and donkeys.
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