Genesis Chapter 30

• Genesis 30:1
  Genesis.
• Genesis 30:2
  When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”
• Genesis 30:3
  Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”
• Genesis 30:4
  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.”
• Genesis 30:5
  She gave him Bilhah her servant as wife, and Jacob went in to her.
• Genesis 30:6
  Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.
• Genesis 30:7
  Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son.” Therefore she called his name Dan.
• Genesis 30:8
  Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.
• Genesis 30:9
  Rachel said, “I have wrestled with my sister with mighty wrestlings, and have prevailed.” She named him Naphtali.
• Genesis 30:10
  When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her servant, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
• Genesis 30:11
  Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a son.
• Genesis 30:12
  Leah said, “How fortunate!” She named him Gad.
• Genesis 30:13
  Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a second son.
• Genesis 30:14
  Leah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy.” She named him Asher.
• Genesis 30:15
  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 gi...
• Genesis 30:16
  Leah said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes, also?” Rachel said, “Therefore he...
• Genesis 30:17
  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 ...
• Genesis 30:18
  God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.
• Genesis 30:19
  Leah said, “God has given me my hire, because I gave my servant to my husband.” She named him Issachar.
• Genesis 30:20
  Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.
• Genesis 30:21
  Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons.” She named him Zebulun.
• Genesis 30:22
  Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.
• Genesis 30:23
  God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.
• Genesis 30:24
  She conceived, bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”
• Genesis 30:25
  She named him Joseph, saying, “May the LORD add another son to me.”
• Genesis 30:26
  When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.
• Genesis 30:27
  Give 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.”
• Genesis 30:28
  Laban said to him, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that the LORD has blessed me for your sake.”
• Genesis 30:29
  He said, “Appoint me your wages, and I will give it.”
• Genesis 30:30
  Jacob said to him, “You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.
• Genesis 30:31
  For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. The LORD has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provid...
• Genesis 30:32
  Laban said, “What shall I give you?” Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and k...
• Genesis 30:33
  I 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...
• Genesis 30:34
  So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted amon...
• Genesis 30:35
  Laban said, “Behold, let it be according to your word.”
• Genesis 30:36
  That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white ...
• Genesis 30:37
  He set three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.
• Genesis 30:38
  Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, and plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
• Genesis 30:39
  He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink...
• Genesis 30:40
  The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks produced streaked, speckled, and spotted.
• Genesis 30:41
  Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in Laban’s flock. He put his own droves apart, and di...
• Genesis 30:42
  Whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, Jacob laid the rods in front of the eyes of the flock in the watering troughs, that they might conceive ...
• Genesis 30:43
  but when the flock were feeble, he didn’t put them in. So the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.
• Genesis 30:44
  The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.