Genesis 30 Parallel Bible

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1	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 had not borne children to Jacob, she became envious of 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	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 Rachel and said, “Can I take the place of God, who has denied 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 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.”	She replied, “Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Have intercourse with her, and let her give birth on my knees, so that I too 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	So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.	So she gave him her maidservant Bilhah as wife, and Jacob had intercourse with her.	So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife. Jacob slept with her,
5	And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.	When Bilhah conceived and bore a son for Jacob,	and she became pregnant and bore him a son.
6	Then Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice and given me a son.” Therefore she called his name Dan.	Rachel said, “God has vindicated me; indeed he has heeded my plea and given me a son.” Therefore she named him 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	Rachel’s servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.	Rachel’s maidservant Bilhah conceived again and bore a second son for Jacob,	Rachel’s servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.
8	Then Rachel said, “With mighty wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister and have prevailed.” So she called his name Naphtali.	and Rachel said, “I have wrestled strenuously with my sister, and I have prevailed.” So she named him Naphtali.	Then Rachel said, “I have had a great struggle with my sister, and I have won.” So she named him Naphtali.
9	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 ceased to bear children, she took her maidservant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as wife.	When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took her servant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
10	Then Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son.	So Leah’s maidservant Zilpah bore a son for Jacob.	Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son.
11	And Leah said, “Good fortune has come!” so she called his name Gad.	Leah then said, “What good luck!” So she named him Gad.	Then Leah said, “What good fortune!” So she named him Gad.
12	Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.	Then Leah’s maidservant Zilpah bore a second son to Jacob;	Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.
13	And Leah said, “Happy am I! For women have called me happy.” So she called his name Asher.	and Leah said, “What good fortune, because women will call me fortunate!” So she named him Asher.	Then Leah said, “How happy I am! The women will call me happy.” So she named him Asher.
14	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.”	One day, during the wheat harvest, Reuben went out and came upon some mandrakes in the field which he brought home to his mother Leah. 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	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.”	Leah replied, “Was it not enough for you to take away my husband, that you must now take my son’s mandrakes too?” Rachel answered, “In that case Jacob 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	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.	That evening, when Jacob came in from the field, Leah went out to meet him. She said, “You must have intercourse with me, because I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So that night he lay with her,	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 listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.	and God listened to Leah; she conceived and bore a fifth son to Jacob.	God listened to Leah, and she became pregnant and bore Jacob a fifth son.
18	Leah said, “God has given me my wages because I gave my servant to my husband.” So she called his name Issachar.	Leah then said, “God has given me my wages for giving my maidservant to my husband”; so she named him Issachar.	Then Leah said, “God has rewarded me for giving my servant to my husband.” So she named him Issachar.
19	And Leah conceived again, and she bore Jacob a sixth son.	Leah conceived again and bore a sixth son to Jacob;	Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a sixth son.
20	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.	and Leah said, “God has brought me a precious gift. This time my husband will honor me, because I have borne him six sons”; so she named him 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	Afterward she bore a daughter and called her name Dinah.	Afterwards she gave birth to a daughter, and she named her Dinah.	Some time later she gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah.
22	Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb.	Then God remembered Rachel. God listened to her and made her fruitful.	Then God remembered Rachel; he listened to her and enabled her to conceive.
23	She conceived and bore a son and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”	She conceived and bore a son, and she said, “God has removed my disgrace.”	She became pregnant and gave birth to a son and said, “God has taken away my disgrace.”
24	And she called his name Joseph, saying, “May the LORD add to me another son!”	She named him Joseph, saying, “May the LORD add another son for me!”	She named him Joseph, and said, “May the LORD add to me another son.”
25	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: “Allow me to go to my own region and land.	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	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 my children for whom I served you and let me go, for you know the service that I rendered 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	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.	Laban answered him: “If you will please! I have learned through 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	Name your wages, and I will give it.”	He continued, “State the wages I owe you, and I will pay them.”	He added, “Name your wages, and I will pay them.”
29	Jacob said to him, “You yourself know how I have served you, and how your livestock has fared with me.	Jacob replied: “You know what work I did for you and how well your livestock fared under my care;	Jacob said to him, “You know how I have worked for you and how your livestock has fared under my care.
30	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 grown into an abundance, since the LORD has blessed you in my company. Now, when can I do something for my own household as well?”	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	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:	Laban asked, “What should I give you?” Jacob answered: “You do not have to give me anything. If you do this thing for me, I will again pasture and tend your sheep.	“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	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 your whole flock today and remove from it every dark animal among the lambs and every spotted or speckled one among the goats. These will 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 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.”	In the future, whenever you check on my wages, my honesty will testify for me: any animal that is not speckled or spotted among the goats, or dark among the lambs, got into my possession by theft!”	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	Laban said, “Good! Let it be as you have said.”	Laban said, “Very well. Let it be as you say.”	“Agreed,” said Laban. “Let it be as you have said.”
35	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 Laban removed the streaked and spotted he-goats and all the speckled and spotted she-goats, all those with some white on them, as well as every dark lamb, and he put them in the care 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 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 days’ journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob was pasturing 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	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, got some fresh shoots of poplar, almond and plane trees, and he peeled white stripes in them by laying bare the white core of the shoots.	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	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,	The shoots that he had peeled he then set upright in the watering troughs where the animals came to drink, so that they would be in front of them. When the animals were in heat as 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	the flocks bred in front of the sticks and so the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted.	the goats mated by the shoots, and so they gave birth to streaked, speckled and spotted young.	they mated in front of the branches. And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.
40	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.	The sheep, on the other hand, Jacob kept apart, and he made these animals face the streaked or completely dark animals of Laban. Thus he produced flocks of his own, which he did not put 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	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 hardier animals were in heat, Jacob would set the shoots in the troughs in full view of these animals, so that they mated by the shoots;	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 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 with the weaker animals he would not put the shoots there. So the feeble animals would go to Laban, but the hardy ones to Jacob.	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	Thus the man increased greatly and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.	So the man grew exceedingly prosperous, and he owned large flocks, male and female servants, 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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