1And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and she said to Jacob, Give me children, or else I die. 2And Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb? 3And she said, Behold, my maid Bilhah, go in to her; that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her. 4And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid as wife: and Jacob went in to 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 called his name Dan. 7And Bilhah Rachel’s handmaid conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son. 8And Rachel said, With mighty wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali. 9When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, she took Zilpah her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob as wife. 10And Zilpah Leah’s handmaid bore Jacob a son. 11And Leah said, Fortunate! and she called his name Gad. 12And Zilpah Leah’s handmaid bore Jacob a second son. 13And Leah said, Happy am I! for the daughters will call me happy: and she called his name Asher. 14And Reuben went 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 she said to her, Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? and would you take away my son’s mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with you tonight for your son’s mandrakes. 16And Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, You must come in to me; for I have surely hired you with my son’s mandrakes. And he lay 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 wages, because I gave my handmaid to my husband: and she called his name Issachar. 19And Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob. 20And Leah said, God has endowed me with a good dowry; now my husband will dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun. 21And afterwards she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah. 22And God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb. 23And she conceived, and bore a son: and said, God has taken away my reproach: 24and she called his name Joseph, saying, Yehovah add to me another son. 25And it happened, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country. 26Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go: for you know my service with which I have served you. 27And Laban said to him, If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay: for I have divined that Yehovah has blessed me for your sake. 28And he said, Name me your wages, and I will give it. 29And he said to him, You know how I have served you, and how your cattle have fared with me. 30For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude; and Yehovah has blessed you wherever I turned: and now when shall I provide for my own house also? 31And he said, What shall I give you? And Jacob said, You shall not give me anything: if you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it. 32I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and such shall be my wages. 33So my righteousness shall answer for me later, when you come concerning my wages that are before you: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that, if found with me, shall be counted stolen. 34And Laban said, Behold, let it be according to your word. 35And he removed that day the male goats that were striped and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons; 36and he set three days’ journey between himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks. 37And Jacob took for himself rods of fresh poplar, and of the almond and of the plane-tree; and peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods. 38And he set the rods which he had peeled in front of the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink; and they conceived when they came to drink. 39And the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted. 40And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and did not put them with Laban’s flock. 41And it happened, whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods; 42but when the flock were feeble, he did not put them in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s. 43And the man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, and female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.