Genesis 30 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 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.” 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 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?” 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 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”; 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 gives Bilhah her maidservant to him for a wife, and Jacob goes in to 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 Bilhah conceives, and bears a son to Jacob, And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son. and she became pregnant and bore him a son.
6 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. 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 Bilhah, Rachel’s maidservant, conceives again, and bears a second son to Jacob, 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 says, “With wrestlings of God I have wrestled with my sister, indeed, I have prevailed”; and she calls his name Napthali. 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 And Leah sees that she has ceased from bearing, and she takes Zilpah her maidservant, and gives her to Jacob for a wife; 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 Zilpah, Leah’s maidservant, bears a son to Jacob, Then Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son. Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son.
11 and Leah says, “A troop is coming”; and she calls 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 Zilpah, Leah’s maidservant, bears a second son to Jacob, Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son. Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.
13 and Leah says, “Because of my happiness, for daughters have pronounced me blessed”; and she calls his name Asher. 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 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.” 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 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.” 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 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. 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 listens to Leah, and she conceives, and bears a son to Jacob, a fifth, 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 and Leah says, “God has given my hire, because I have given my maidservant to my husband”; and she calls his name Issachar. 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 Leah conceives again, and she bears a sixth son to Jacob, And Leah conceived again, and she bore Jacob a sixth son. Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a sixth son.
20 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; 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 and afterward she has borne a daughter, and calls her name Dinah. 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 remembers Rachel, and God listens to her, and opens her womb, 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 and she conceives and bears a son, and says, “God has gathered up my reproach”; 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 calls his name Joseph, saying, “YHWH is adding to me another son.” 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 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; 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 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.” 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 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.” 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 He also says, “Define your hire to me, and I give.” Name your wages, and I will give it.” He added, “Name your wages, and I will pay them.”
29 And he says to him, “You have known that which I have served you [in], and that which your substance was with 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 [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?” 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 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; 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 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; 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 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.” 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 says, “Behold, O that it were according to your word”; Laban said, “Good! Let it be as you have said.” “Agreed,” said Laban. “Let it be as you have said.”
35 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, 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 sets a journey of three days between himself and Jacob; and Jacob is feeding the rest of the flock of Laban. 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 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, 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 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; 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 flocks conceive at the rods, and the flock bears striped, speckled, and spotted ones. 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 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. 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 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, 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 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. 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 increases very exceedingly, and has many flocks, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and donkeys. 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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