1And when Rachel saw that she was not having children for Jacob, she envied her sister; and said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I’ll die.” 2And Jacob became angry with Rachel; and said, “Am I in the place of God, Who has withheld the fruit from your womb?” 3And Rachel said, “Here is my maid, Bilhah, sleep with her; and she can bear children upon my knees, so that I may also have children by her.” 4And she gave him Bilhah, her handmaid, for a wife; and Jacob slept with her. 5And Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son. 6And Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son:” therefore, she named him Dan (judging). 7And Bilhah, Rachel's maid conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son. 8And Rachel said, “I have had a great struggle with my sister, and I have won;” and she named him Naphtali (wrestling).

9When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, she took Zilpah, her maid, and gave her to Jacob for a wife. 10And Zilpah bore Jacob a son. 11And Leah said, “Good fortune!” And she called him Gad (victory cometh). 12And Zilpah, Leah's maid bore Jacob a second son. 13And Leah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed;” and she called him Asher (happy).

14And Reuben went out 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.” 15And Leah replied, “Is it a small matter that you have taken my husband? And would you take my son's mandrakes also?” And Rachel said, “Jacob shall lie with you tonight for your son's mandrakes.” 16And when Jacob came out of the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him, and said, “You must come in unto me; for surely I have hired you with my son's mandrakes.” And he slept with her that night. 17And God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son. 18And Leah said, “God has given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband;” and she named him Issachar (there is hire). 19And Leah conceived again, and bore Jacob a sixth son. 20And Leah said, “God has blessed me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons;” and she called him Zebulun (dwelling). 21And afterwards she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah (judgment).

22And God remembered Rachel’s plight, answered her prayers, and opened her womb. 23And she conceived, and bore a son; and said, “God has taken away my reproach;” 24And she named him Joseph (adding); and said, “May the LORD add to me yet another son.”

25And after Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way, that I may return to my homeland. 26Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know how much service I have provided you.” 27And Laban said, “Please, if I have found favor with you, remain; for I have learned by experience that the LORD has blessed me for your sake.” 28And he said further, “Name your wages, and I will pay it.” 29And Jacob said to him, “You know how I have served you, and how your flocks and herds have thrived under my care. 30What little you had before I came has now increased greatly; and the LORD has blessed you since my coming. But when may I start providing for my own household?” 31And Laban said, “What shall I give you?” And Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything; but do this one thing for me, and I will again tend and keep your flock: 32Let me pass through all your flocks today, removing from them all the speckled and spotted sheep, and all the brown lambs, and every spotted and speckled goat: and those shall be my wages. 33So my honesty shall speak for me in the future, when you shall come and check the wages I have earned: every one that is not speckled or spotted among the goats, or brown among the sheep, that you find in my possession may be considered stolen by me.”34And Laban said, “Let it be as you say.” And that day Laban removed all the male goats that were striped and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted - every one that had some white on them, and all the brown among the sheep, and put them under the care of his own sons. 36And he put a distance of three days' journey between himself and Jacob; while Jacob continued to tend the rest of Laban's flocks.

37And Jacob took rods of green poplar, and from the almond and plane trees; and peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear in the rods. 38And he set the rods which he had peeled in front of the flocks in the gutters by the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink. 39And the flocks conceived in front of the rods, and brought forth cattle that were striped, speckled, and spotted. 40And Jacob separated the young lambs, but made the others of the flock face toward the striped rods, and all the brown in the flock that belonged to Laban; and he made separate flocks of his own by themselves, and did not put them with Laban's cattle. 41And whenever the stronger cattle bred, Jacob laid the striped rods before their eyes at the watering troughs, that they might conceive among the streaked rods. 42But when the more feeble cattle came, he did not put them in: so that the feebler went to Laban, and the stronger went to Jacob. 43And Jacob prospered exceedingly, and acquired much cattle, maidservants, menservants, camels, and donkeys.