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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"><title>Genesis 30 Catholic Public Domain Version</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.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" /></head><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="../">CPDV</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/29.htm" title="Genesis 29">◄</a> Genesis 30 <a href="../genesis/31.htm" 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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Catholic Public Domain Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/genesis/30-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Dan and Naphtali<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Rachel, discerning that she was infertile, envied her sister, and so she said to her husband, “Give me children, otherwise I will die.” <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Jacob, being angry, responded to her, “Am I in the place of God, who has deprived you of the fruit of your womb?” <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>But she said: “I have a handmaid Bilhah. Go in to her, so that she may give birth upon my knees, and I may have sons by her.” <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And she gave him Bilhah in marriage. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And when her husband had gone in to her, she conceived and bore a son. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And Rachel said, “The Lord has judged for me, and he has heeded my voice, giving me a son.” And because of this, she called his name Dan. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And conceiving again, Bilhah bore another, <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>about whom Rachel said, “God has compared me with my sister, and I have prevailed.” And she called him Naphtali.<p> <A name="10"></a><p class="hdg">Gad and Asher<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Leah, perceiving that she had desisted from child-bearing, delivered Zilpah, her handmaid, to her husband. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And she, after having borne a son with difficulty, <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>said: “Happiness!” And for this reason, she called his name Gad. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Likewise, Zilpah bore another. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And Leah said, “This one is for my happiness. Indeed, women will call me blessed.” Because of this, she called him Asher.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then Reuben, going out into the field at the time of the wheat harvest, found mandrakes. These he brought to his mother Leah. And Rachel said, “Give me a portion of your son’s mandrakes.” <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>She responded, “Does it seem like such a small matter to you, that you have usurped from me my husband, unless you will also take my son’s mandrakes?” Rachel said, “He will sleep with you this night because of your son’s mandrakes.” <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And when Jacob returned from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him, and she said, “You will enter to me, because I have hired you for the reward of my son’s mandrakes.” And he slept with her that night.<p> <A name="18"></a><p class="hdg">Issachar, Zebulun, and Dinah<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And God heard her prayers. And she conceived and bore a fifth son. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And she said, “God has given a reward to me, because I gave my handmaid to my husband.” And she called his name Issachar. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Conceiving again, Leah bore a sixth son. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And she said: “God has endowed me with a good dowry. And now, at this turn, my husband will be with me, because I have conceived six sons for him.” And therefore she called his name Zebulun. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>After him, she bore a daughter, named Dinah.<p> <A name="23"></a><p class="hdg">Joseph<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>The Lord, likewise remembering Rachel, heeded her and opened her womb. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And she conceived and bore a son, saying, “God has taken away my reproach.” <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And she called his name Joseph, saying, “The Lord has added to me another son.”<p> <A name="26"></a><p class="hdg">Jacob Prospers<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>But when Joseph was born, Jacob said to his father-in-law: “Release me, so that I may return to my native country and to my land. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Give me my wives, and my children, for whom I have served you, so that I may depart. You know the servitude with which I have served you.” <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Laban said to him: “May I find grace in your sight. I have learned by experience that God has blessed me because of you. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Choose your wages, which I will give you.” <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>But he responded: “You know how I have served you, and how great your possession became in my hands. <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>You had little before I came to you, and now you have achieved riches. And the Lord has blessed you since my arrival. It is just, therefore, that at sometime I also should provide for my own house.” <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And Laban said, “What shall I give to you?” But he said, “I want nothing. But if you will do what I ask, I will feed and guard your sheep again. <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Go around through all your flocks and separate all the sheep of variegated or spotted fleece; and whatever will be darkened or blemished or variegated, as much among the sheep as among the goats, will be my wages. <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And my justice will answer on my behalf tomorrow, when the time of settlement arrives before you. And all that is not variegated or blemished or darkened, as much among the sheep as among the goats, these will prove me to be a thief.” <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And Laban said, “I hold favor for this request.” <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>And on that day he separated the she-goats, and the sheep, and the he-goats, and the rams with variegations or with blemishes. But every one of the flock which was of one color, that is, of white or of black fleece, he delivered into the hands of his sons. <A name="37"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>And he established a distance of three days journey between himself and his son-in-law, who pastured the remainder of his flock.<p> <A name="38"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>Then Jacob, taking green branches of poplar, and almond, and sycamore trees, debarked them in part. And when the bark was pulled off, in the parts that were stripped, there appeared whiteness, yet the parts that were left whole, remained green. And so, in this way the color was made variegated. <A name="39"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>And he placed them in the troughs, where the water was poured out, so that when the flocks had arrived to drink, they would have the branches before their eyes, and in their sight they might conceive. <A name="40"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>And it happened that, in the very heat of joining together, the sheep looked upon the branches, and they bore the blemished and the variegated, those speckled with diverse color. <A name="41"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>And Jacob divided the flock, and he set the branches in the troughs before the eyes of the rams. Now whatever was white or black belonged to Laban, but, in truth, the others belonged to Jacob, for the flocks were dispersed among one another. <A name="42"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>Therefore, when the first to arrive were climbing on the ewes, Jacob placed the branches in the troughs of water before the eyes of the rams and the sheep, so that they might conceive while they were gazing upon them. <A name="43"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>Yet when the late arrivals and the last to conceive were let in, he did not place these. And so those that arrived late became Laban’s, and those that arrived first became Jacob’s. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>And the man was enriched beyond limit, and he had many flocks, women servants and men servants, camels and donkeys.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Catholic Public Domain Version<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../genesis/29.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Genesis 29"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Genesis 29" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../genesis/31.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Genesis 31"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Genesis 31" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>