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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Genesis 30 ISV ESV Parallel</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/newp.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/genesis/30.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../../topmenuchap/genesis/30-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="/genesis/">Genesis</a> > Genesis 30</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/29.shtml" title="Genesis 29">◄</a> Genesis 30 <a href="../genesis/31.shtml" title="Genesis 31">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">ISV Parallel ESV <a href="../../bsb/genesis/30.shtml">[BSB</a> <a href="../../csb/genesis/30.shtml">CSB</a> <a href="../../esv/genesis/30.shtml">ESV</a> <a href="../../hcs/genesis/30.shtml">HCS</a> <a href="../../kjv/genesis/30.shtml">KJV</a> <a href="../../isv/genesis/30.shtml">ISV</a> <a href="../../nas/genesis/30.shtml">NAS</a> <a href="../../net/genesis/30.shtml">NET</a> <a href="../../niv/genesis/30.shtml">NIV</a> <a href="../../nlt/genesis/30.shtml">NLT</a> <a href="../../heb/genesis/30.shtml">HEB]</a></div><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="50%">International Standard Version</td><td class="version" width="50%">English Standard Version</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Rachel noticed that she was not bearing children for Jacob, so because she envied her sister Leah, she told Jacob, "If you don't give me sons, I'm going to die!"<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I shall die!”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">That made Jacob angry with Rachel, so he asked her, "Can I take God's place, who has not allowed you to conceive?" <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Rachel responded, "Here's my handmaid Bilhah. Go have sex with her. She can bear children on my knees so I can have children through her."<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then she said, “Here is my servant Bilhah; go in to her, so that she may give birth on my behalf, that even I may have children through her.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So Rachel gave Jacob her woman servant Bilhah to be his wife, and Jacob had sex with her. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Bilhah conceived and bore a son for Jacob. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then Rachel said, "God has vindicated me! He has heard my voice and has given me a son." Therefore, she named him Dan. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice and given me a son.” Therefore she called his name Dan.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Rachel's servant conceived again and bore a second son for Jacob, <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Rachel’s servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">so Rachel said, "I've been through a mighty struggle with my sister and won." She named him Naphtali. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then Rachel said, “With mighty wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister and have prevailed.” So she called his name Naphtali.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing children, she took her woman servant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took her servant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Leah's servant Zilpah bore a son to Jacob, <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">and Leah exclaimed, "How fortunate!" So she named him Gad. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And Leah said, “Good fortune has come!” so she called his name Gad.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Later, Leah's servant Zilpah bore a second son for Jacob. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">She said, "How happy I am, because women will call me happy!" So she named him Asher. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And Leah said, “Happy am I! For women have called me happy.” So she called his name Asher.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Some time later, during the wheat harvest season, Reuben went out and found some mandrakes in the field and brought them back for his mother Leah. Then Rachel told Leah, "Please give me your son's mandrakes."<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">In the days of wheat harvest Reuben went 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.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">In response, Leah asked her, "Wasn't it enough that you've taken away my husband? Now you also want to take my son's mandrakes!" But Rachel replied, "Okay, let's let Jacob sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son's mandrakes."<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But she 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, “Then he may lie with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">When Jacob came in from the field that evening, Leah went to meet him and told him, "You're having sex with me tonight. I traded my son's mandrakes for you!" So he slept with her that night.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">When Jacob came from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come in to me, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he lay with her that night.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">God heard what Leah had said, so she conceived and bore a fifth son for Jacob. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then Leah said, "God has paid me for giving my servant to my husband as his wife." So she named him Issachar. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Leah said, “God has given me my wages because I gave my servant to my husband.” So she called his name Issachar.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Later, Leah conceived again and bore a sixth son for Jacob. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And Leah conceived again, and she bore Jacob a sixth son.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then Leah said, "God has given me a good gift. This time my husband will exalt me, because I've borne him six sons." So she named him Zebulun. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good endowment; now my husband will honor me, because I have borne him six sons.” So she called his name Zebulun.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1">After that, Leah conceived, bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Afterward she bore a daughter and called her name Dinah.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb, <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext1">so she conceived, bore a son, and remarked, "God has removed my shame." <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext2">She conceived and bore a son and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Because she had been asking, "May God give me another son," she named him Joseph. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And she called his name Joseph, saying, “May the LORD add to me another son!”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext1">After Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob told Laban, "Send me off so that I can go back to my place and country. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext2">As soon as Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own home and country.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Give me my wives and children for whom I've served you. Then I'll leave, since you're aware of my service to you."<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, that I may go, for you know the service that I have given you.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then Laban responded, "If I've found favor in your sight, please stay with me, because I've learned through divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your sight, I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Name your wage, and I'll give it to you."<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Name your wages, and I will give it.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But Jacob replied to Laban, "You know how I've served you and how your cattle thrived under my care. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Jacob said to him, “You yourself know how I have served you, and how your livestock has fared with me.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="btext1">What you had previously was only a few head, but the herd has now multiplied, because the LORD has blessed you through my efforts. But now, when am I going to be able to provide for my own household?"<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For you had little before I came, and it has increased abundantly, and the LORD has blessed you wherever I turned. But now when shall I provide for my own household also?”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"What do I have to give you?" Laban asked. Jacob responded, "You don't have to give me anything. Just do this for me: Let me tend your flock again and watch over it. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="btext2">He said, “What shall I give you?” Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this for me, I will again pasture your flock and keep it:</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Let me walk among your flocks today and remove every speckled or spotted sheep, along with every black lamb, and let me do the same with the speckled and spotted goats. These will be my wages. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="btext2">let me pass through all your flock today, removing from it every speckled and spotted sheep and every black lamb, and the spotted and speckled among the goats, and they shall be my wages.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><span class="btext1">In the future, you'll be able to verify my honesty because, when you come to check what I've earned, if you find a goat that's not speckled or spotted or a sheep that's not black, then it will have been stolen by me."<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><span class="btext2">So my honesty will answer for me later, when you come to look into my wages with you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and black among the lambs, if found with me, shall be counted stolen.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"Okay," Laban replied. "We'll do it the way you've asked." <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Laban said, “Good! Let it be as you have said.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span><span class="btext1">That very day, Laban removed the male goats that were striped or spotted, all the female goats that were speckled or spotted—that is, every one that had white on them—and all the black lambs and placed them into the care of his sons. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But that day Laban removed the male goats that were striped and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white on it, and every lamb that was black, and put them in the charge of his sons.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He sent them as far away from Jacob as a three days' journey could take them. Meanwhile, Jacob kept tending the rest of Laban's flock. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And he set a distance of three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob pastured the rest of Laban’s flock.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Jacob took branches from white poplar trees, freshly cut almond trees, and some other trees, stripped off their bark to make white streaks, and uncovered the white part inside the branches. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then Jacob took fresh sticks of poplar and almond and plane trees, and peeled white streaks in them, exposing the white of the sticks.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then he placed the branches that he had stripped bare in all the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. He placed the branches in front of the flock, and they went into heat as they came to drink. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span><span class="btext2">He set the sticks that he had peeled in front of the flocks in the troughs, that is, the watering places, where the flocks came to drink. And since they bred when they came to drink,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span><span class="btext1">When the flocks mated in front of the branches, they would bear offspring that were striped, speckled, or spotted.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span><span class="btext2">the flocks bred in front of the sticks and so the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Jacob kept the lambs separate, facing the striped and entirely black ones that belonged to Laban's flock. He set his own herd by itself and would not let them be with Laban's flock. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And Jacob separated the lambs and set the faces of the flocks toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban. He put his own droves apart and did not put them with Laban’s flock.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Whenever the more vigorous of the flock came into heat, Jacob would place the branches in the troughs in front of the flock to make them mate by the branches.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Whenever the stronger of the flock were breeding, Jacob would lay the sticks in the troughs before the eyes of the flock, that they might breed among the sticks,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But he didn't put the branches in front of any of the feeble members of the flock. As a result, the feeble ones belonged to Laban, but the stronger ones belonged to Jacob. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span><span class="btext2">but for the feebler of the flock he would not lay them there. So the feebler would be Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Therefore the man Jacob prospered so much that he had large flocks, female and male servants, as well as camels and donkeys.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Thus the man increased greatly and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%">The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1 Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation<br />ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY.</td><td class="copy" width="50%">ESV Text Edition: 2016. 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