en_cepher - Gen 30 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ AND when Rachel saw that she bore Ya`aqov no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto El-Ya`aqov, Give me children, or else I die.

² And Ya`aqov's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in Elohiym's stead, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?

³ 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.

⁴ And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to be his woman: and Ya`aqov went in unto her.

⁵ And Bilhah conceived, and bore Ya`aqov a son.

⁶ And Rachel said, Elohiym has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.

⁷ And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bore Ya`aqov a second son.

⁸ And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtaliy.

⁹ When Le'ah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Ya`aqov to be his woman.

¹⁰ And Zilpah Le'ah's maid bore Ya`aqov a son.

¹¹ And Le'ah said, A troop comes: and she called his name Gad.

¹² And Zilpah Le'ah's maid bore Ya`aqov a second son.

¹³ And Le'ah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.

¹⁴ And Re'uven went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother El-Le'ah. Then Rachel said to El-Le'ah, Give me, I pray you, of your son's mandrakes.

¹⁵ And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that you have taken my man? 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.

¹⁶ And Ya`aqov came out of the field in the evening, and Le'ah 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 lay with her that night.

¹⁷ And Elohiym hearkened unto El-Le'ah, and she conceived, and bore Ya`aqov the fifth son.

¹⁸ And Le'ah said, Elohiym has given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my man: and she called his name Yisshakar.

²⁰ And Le'ah said, Elohiym has endued me with a good dowry; now will my man dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and she called his name Zevulun.

²¹ And afterwards she bore a daughter, and called her name Diynah.

²² And Elohiym remembered Rachel, and Elohiym hearkened to her, and opened her womb.

²³ And she conceived, and bore a son; and said, Elohiym has taken away my reproach:

²⁴ And she called his name Yoceph; and said, Yahuah shall add to me another son.

²⁵ And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Yoceph, that Ya`aqov said unto Lavan, Send me away, that I may go unto my own place, and to my country.

²⁶ Give me my women and my children, for whom I have served you, and let me go: for you know my service which I have done you.

²⁷ And Lavan said unto him, I pray you, if I have found favor in your eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that Yahuah has blessed me for your sake.

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

²⁹ And he said unto him, You know את how I have served you, and how your cattle was with me.

³⁰ For it was little which you had before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and Yahuah has blessed you since my coming: and now when shall I provide for my own house also?

³¹ And he said, What shall I give you? And Ya`aqov said, You shall not give me anything: if you will do this thing for me, I will again feed and guard your flock:

³² I will pass through all your flock today, 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.

³³ So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before your face: everyone that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.

³⁴ And Lavan said, Behold, I would it might be according to your word.

³⁵ And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and everyone that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.

³⁶ And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Ya`aqov: and Ya`aqov fed the rest of Lavan's flocks.

³⁷ And Ya`aqov took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chestnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.

³⁸ 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.

³⁹ And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.

⁴⁰ And Ya`aqov did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Lavan; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Lavan's cattle.

⁴¹ And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Ya`aqov laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.

⁴² But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Lavan's, and the stronger Ya`aqov's.

⁴³ And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.