1And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister, and said to Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.

2And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, Am I in ¹²⁶God's stead, who has withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?

3And she said, Behold, there is my maid, Bilhah: go in to her, in order that she may bear on my knees, and I may also be built up by her.

4And she gave him Bilhah her maidservant as wife, and Jacob went in to her.

5And Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.

6And Rachel said, ¹²⁷God has done me justice, and has also heard my voice, and given me a son; therefore she called his name Dan.

7And Bilhah Rachel's maidservant again conceived, and bore Jacob a second son.

8And Rachel said, Wrestlings of ¹²⁸God have I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed; and she called his name Naphtali.

9And when Leah saw that she had ceased to bear, she took Zilpah her maidservant and gave her to Jacob as wife.

10And Zilpah Leah's maidservant bore Jacob a son.

11And Leah said, Fortunately! and she called his name Gad.

12And Zilpah Leah's maidservant bore Jacob a second son.

13And Leah said, Happy am I; for the daughters will call me blessed! and she called his name Asher.

14And Reuben went out in the days of wheat-harvest, and found mandrakes in the fields; and he brought them to his mother Leah. And Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.

15And she said to her, Is it [too] little that thou hast taken my husband, that thou wilt take my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to-night for thy son's mandrakes.

16And when Jacob came from the fields in the evening, Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in to me, for indeed I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.

17And ¹²⁹God hearkened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.

18And Leah said, ¹³⁰God has given me my hire, because I have given my maidservant to my husband; and she called his name Issachar.

19And Leah again conceived, and bore Jacob a sixth son;

20and Leah said, ¹³¹God has endowed me with a good dowry; this time will my husband 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 ¹³²God remembered Rachel, and ¹³³God listened to her, and opened her womb.

23And she conceived, and bore a son, and said, ¹³⁴God has taken away my reproach.

24And she called his name Joseph; and said, Jehovah will add to me another son.

25And it came to pass when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, Send me away, that I may go to my place and to my country.

26Give [me] my wives for whom I have served thee, and my children; that I may go away, for thou knowest my service which I have served thee.

27And Laban said to him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes — I have discovered that Jehovah has blessed me for thy sake.

28And he said, Appoint to me thy wages, and I will give it.

29And he said to him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and what thy cattle has become with me.

30For it was little that thou hadst before me, and it is increased to a multitude, and Jehovah has blessed thee from the time I came; and now, when shall I also provide for my house?

31And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me anything. If thou doest this for me, I will again feed [and] keep thy flock:

32I will pass through all thy flock to-day, to remove thence all the speckled and spotted sheep, and all the brown lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and [that] shall be my hire.

33And my righteousness shall answer for me hereafter, when thou comest about my hire, before thy face: all that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the lambs, let that be stolen with me.

34And Laban said, Well, let it be according to thy word.

35And he removed that day the he-goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the brown among the lambs, and gave [them] into the hand of his sons.

36And he put three days' journey between himself and Jacob. And Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flock.

37And Jacob took fresh rods of white poplar, almond-tree, and maple; and peeled off white stripes in them, uncovering the white which was on the rods.

38And he set the rods which he had peeled before the flock, in the troughs at the watering-places where the flock came to drink, and they were ardent when they came to drink.

39And the flock was ardent before the rods; and the flock brought forth ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.

40And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flock toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he made himself separate flocks, and did not put them with Laban's flock.

41And it came to pass whensoever the strong cattle were ardent, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might become ardent among the rods;

42but when the sheep were feeble, he put [them] not in; so the feeble were Laban's, and the strong Jacob's.

43And the man increased very, very much, and had much cattle, and bondwomen, and bondmen, and camels, and asses.