Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
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King James Version
When Rachel saw that she was
not
bearing
any
children
for
Jacob, she
envied her sister .
“
Give me children, or I will
die !”
she
said
to
Jacob
.
And
when Rachel saw that she bare
Jacob no
children
, Rachel
envied her sister ;
and
said
unto
Jacob,
Give me children, or else
I die.
Jacob
became
angry
with
Rachel and said, “
Am I in the
place
of
God
, who has
withheld children
from you
? ”
And
Jacob's
anger
was
kindled
against
Rachel :
and he
said, Am I in God's
stead
, who hath
withheld from thee
the
fruit
of
the
womb
?
Then
she said, “Here
is
my maidservant
Bilhah .
Sleep
with
her
, that
she may
bear children
for
me
, so
that through
her
I too
can
build
a
family
. ”
And
she said, Behold
my maid
Bilhah, go
in
unto
her;
and
she shall
bear upon
my
knees
, that I may
also
have
children
by
her
.
So
Rachel
gave Jacob
her
servant
Bilhah as
a
wife ,
and he
slept
with
her ,
And
she
gave him
Bilhah her
handmaid
to
wife :
and Jacob
went
in
unto
her .
and Bilhah conceived and bore
him
a son.
And Bilhah conceived ,
and bare
Jacob
a son.
Then
Rachel said, “
God has
vindicated
me ;
He
has
heard my plea
and given me a son .”
So
she named
him
Dan.
And
Rachel said, God hath
judged
me ,
and
hath
also
heard my voice,
and hath
given me a son :
therefore
called
she his
name
Dan.
And Rachel’s
servant
Bilhah conceived again and bore
Jacob a second son.
And Bilhah Rachel's
maid
conceived again ,
and bare
Jacob a second son.
Then
Rachel said, “In
my
great struggles,
I
have wrestled with my sister and won.”
So
she named
him
Naphtali.
And
Rachel said, With
great wrestlings
have I
wrestled with my sister ,
and I
have
prevailed:
and
she called
his
name
Naphtali.
When Leah saw that she had stopped
having
children
, she gave her servant
Zilpah
to
Jacob as
a
wife.
When Leah saw that she had left
bearing
, she took
Zilpah
her
maid,
and
gave her Jacob to
wife.
And Leah’s
servant
Zilpah bore
Jacob a son.
And Zilpah Leah's
maid
bare
Jacob a son.
Then
Leah said, “How
fortunate!”
So
she named
him
Gad.
And
Leah said, A
troop
cometh:
and
she called
his
name
Gad.
When
Leah’s
servant
Zilpah bore
Jacob a second son ,
And
Zilpah Leah's
maid
bare
Jacob a second son .
Leah said, “How
happy I
am !
For the women
call me happy.”
So
she named
him
Asher.
And
Leah said, Happy am I,
for the daughters
will
call me blessed:
and
she called
his
name
Asher.
Now
during
the wheat harvest, Reuben
went
out
and found some
mandrakes in the field .
When
he
brought them to
his mother ,
Rachel begged
Leah, “Please
give me some
of your
son’s
mandrakes. ”
And
Reuben
went
in
the days
of
wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field ,
and
brought them unto
his mother Leah.
Then
Rachel said
to
Leah, Give me ,
I
pray
thee,
of thy
son's
mandrakes.
But
Leah
replied
, “
Is it not
enough
that you
have
taken away
my husband? Now
you
want
to
take my son’s
mandrakes as
well
? ”
“Very
well,”
said
Rachel, “
he may
sleep
with you
tonight
in
exchange
for your
son’s
mandrakes. ”
And
she
said
unto
her
, Is it a
small
matter
that thou
hast
taken my husband? and
wouldest
thou
take away
my son's
mandrakes also
? And
Rachel said
, Therefore
he shall
lie
with thee
to
night
for thy
son's
mandrakes.
When
Jacob came in
from
the field that
evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You
must come with
me ,
for I have hired you
with my son’s
mandrakes. ”
So
he slept
with her that night.
And
Jacob came out
of
the field in
the
evening, and
Leah went out to meet him ,
and said, Thou
must come in
unto
me ;
for surely
I have hired thee
with my son's
mandrakes. And
he lay
with her that night.
And God listened
to
Leah, and she conceived and bore
a
fifth son to
Jacob
.
And God hearkened
unto
Leah, and she conceived ,
and bare
Jacob
the
fifth son.
Then
Leah said, “
God has
rewarded
me for
giving
my maidservant
to my husband .”
So
she named
him
Issachar.
And
Leah said, God hath
given
me my hire,
because
I
have
given
my
maiden
to my husband :
and
she called
his
name
Issachar.
Again
Leah conceived and bore
a
sixth son to
Jacob
.
And
Leah conceived again,
and bare
Jacob
the
sixth son.
“
God has
given
me a good gift,”
she
said.
“This
time
my husband will
honor
me, because I have borne
him six sons .”
And she named
him
Zebulun.
And
Leah
said,
God hath
endued
me with
a good dowry;
now
will
my husband dwell
with
me, because I have born
him six sons :
and she called
his
name
Zebulun.
After
that,
Leah
gave
birth
to
a daughter and named
her Dinah.
And
afterwards
she
bare
a daughter ,
and called
her name
Dinah.
Then
God remembered Rachel .
He
listened
to her and opened her womb ,
And
God remembered Rachel ,
and
God
hearkened
to her ,
and opened her womb .
and she conceived and gave
birth
to
a son .
“
God has
taken away my shame,”
she
said.
And she conceived ,
and bare
a son ;
and
said,
God hath
taken away my reproach:
She named
him
Joseph ,
and said, “May
the LORD add to me another son. ”
And
she called
his
name
Joseph ;
and said, The LORD shall
add to me another son.
Now
after
Rachel had given
birth
to
Joseph, Jacob said to
Laban, “
Send me on
my
way
so
I can
return
to my homeland
.
And
it
came
to
pass,
when
Rachel had born
Joseph, that
Jacob said unto
Laban, Send me away,
that
I may
go
unto
mine
own
place,
and
to my country
.
Give me my wives and children for whom I have served you
, that
I
may
go on
my way.
You
know
how
hard
I have worked
for
you
. ”
Give me my wives and my
children ,
for whom I have served thee
, and
let
me
go :
for
thou
knowest
my service
which
I have done
thee
.
But
Laban replied
, “
If I have found favor in your
eyes, please
stay.
I have learned by divination
that the LORD has
blessed me because
of
you
. ”
And
Laban said
unto
him
, I
pray
thee,
if I have found favor in thine
eyes, tarry:
for
I have learned by experience
that the LORD hath
blessed me for
thy
sake
.
And he added
, “Name
your
wages, and I will pay
them
. ”
And he said
, Appoint
me
thy
wages, and I will give
it
.
Then
Jacob
answered
, “You
know
how I have served you
and how your
livestock
have
thrived
under
my
care
.
And
he
said
unto
him
, Thou
knowest
how I have served thee,
and how thy
cattle
was
with
me
.
Indeed,
you
had
very
little before my
arrival
, but
now your
wealth
has
increased many
times
over.
The LORD has
blessed you
wherever
I
set
foot.
But
now ,
when may
I also
provide for my
own household
? ”
For
it
was
little which
thou
hadst
before I
came
, and
it
is
now increased unto
a
multitude;
and
the LORD hath
blessed thee
since
my
coming:
and
now when shall
I provide for mine
own house
also
?
“
What can
I give you
? ”
Laban
asked.
“You
do
not need
to
give me anything,”
Jacob
replied.
“
If you
do this one
thing for me, I will keep
on
shepherding
and keeping
your
flocks
.
And
he
said,
What shall
I give thee
? And
Jacob
said,
Thou
shalt
not give me any
thing:
if thou
wilt
do this thing for me, I will again
feed
and keep
thy
flock
.
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.
These
will
be my wages
.
I
will
pass
through all thy
flock
to
day,
removing
from thence
all
the
speckled and
spotted cattle
, and
all
the
brown
cattle
among
the
sheep
, and the
spotted and
speckled among
the
goats:
and
of
such
shall
be my hire
.
So my honesty
will
testify
for me when you
come to
check
on
my wages
in
the
future.
If
I
have
any
goats
that are
not speckled or
spotted, or
any
lambs
that
are
not
dark-colored
, they
will
be considered
stolen. ”
So shall
my righteousness
answer
for me in
time
to
come,
when it
shall
come for
my hire
before
thy
face:
every
one
that is
not speckled and
spotted among
the
goats
, and
brown
among
the
sheep
, that
shall
be counted
stolen with
me
.
“Agreed,”
said
Laban .
“Let
it be as
you
have
said
. ”
And
Laban said,
Behold,
I
would
it might
be according
to
thy
word
.
That very
day Laban
removed
all
the streaked or
spotted male
goats
and every
speckled or
spotted female
goat—
every one that had any
white on
it —
and every
dark-colored
lamb
, and he
placed
them under
the care
of his sons.
And
he
removed
that day the he
goats
that
were
ring-
streaked and
spotted ,
and all
the
she
goats
that
were
speckled and
spotted ,
and
every one that had some
white in
it ,
and all
the
brown
among
the
sheep
, and gave
them into
the hand
of his sons.
Then
he put
a
three -day
journey between
himself and Jacob ,
while
Jacob was
shepherding
the rest of Laban’s
flocks.
And
he set
three days'
journey betwixt
himself and Jacob :
and
Jacob fed
the rest of Laban's
flocks.
Jacob ,
however,
took fresh
branches
of poplar, almond,
and plane
trees,
and
peeled
the bark
, exposing
the white inner
wood
of
the branches
.
And
Jacob took him
rods
of green
poplar, and of
the hazel
and
chestnut
tree;
and
pilled
white
streaks
in
them
, and
made
the white appear
which
was
in
the rods
.
Then
he set the peeled
branches
in the watering troughs in
front
of
the flocks coming
in
to drink .
So
when the
flocks
were
in
heat
and
came to drink ,
And
he set the rods
which
he
had
pilled
before
the
flocks
in the gutters
in
the
watering troughs when
the flocks came
to drink ,
that
they
should
conceive
when they
came to drink .
they
mated
in
front
of
the branches.
And they
bore
young
that
were
streaked or
speckled or
spotted.
And
the flocks
conceived
before
the
rods,
and brought
forth
cattle
ring-
streaked ,
speckled ,
and
spotted.
Jacob set
apart
the young
, but
made
the rest
face
the streaked
dark
- colored
sheep
in Laban’s
flocks.
Then
he set
his own stock
apart
and did
not
put them with
Laban’s
animals
.
And
Jacob did
separate
the lambs
, and
set
the faces
of
the flocks
toward
the
ring
- streaked,
and
all
the
brown
in the
flock
of
Laban;
and
he put
his own flocks
by
themselves,
and put them not
unto
Laban's
cattle
.
Whenever
the stronger females
of
the
flock
were
in
heat
, Jacob would
place
the branches
in
the troughs,
in
full
view
of the animals
, so
that they would
breed
in
front
of
the branches
.
And
it
came
to
pass,
whensoever
the stronger cattle
did
conceive
, that
Jacob laid
the rods
before
the eyes
of the cattle
in
the
gutters
, that they might
conceive
among
the rods
.
But if
the animals
were weak
, he did
not set
out
the
branches.
So the weaker
animals
went
to
Laban
and the stronger ones
to
Jacob
.
But when
the cattle
were feeble
, he put
them
not in:
so the feebler
were
Laban's,
and the stronger Jacob's
.
Thus
Jacob
became
exceedingly prosperous.
He
owned
large
flocks
, maidservants and menservants, and camels and donkeys
.
And
the
man
increased
exceedingly, and
had
much
cattle,
and
maidservants ,
and menservants, and camels ,
and asses
.
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