CINXE.COM

<!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 KJV</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" /><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><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="../">KJV</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.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">King James Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/kjv/esv/genesis/30.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Dan and Naphtali</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, <i>Am</i> I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb? <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.</p> <p class="hdg">Gad and Asher</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And she said unto her, <i>Is it</i> a small matter that thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son's mandrakes. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.</p> <p class="hdg">Issachar, Zebulun, and Dinah</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And Leah said, God hath endued me <i>with</i> a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.</p> <p class="hdg">The Birth of Joseph</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach: <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son.</p> <p class="hdg">Jacob Prospers</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Give <i>me</i> my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, <i>tarry: for</i> I have learned by experience that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give <i>it</i>. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>For <i>it was</i> little which thou hadst before I <i>came</i>, and it is <i>now</i> increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also? <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed <i>and</i> keep thy flock: <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>I will pass through all thy flock to day, 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 <i>of such</i> shall be my hire. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that <i>is</i> not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, <i>and</i> every one that had <i>some</i> white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave <i>them</i> into the hand of his sons. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which <i>was</i> in the rods. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>But when the cattle were feeble, he put <i>them</i> not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">King James Bible<br /><br />Text courtesy of <a href="http://www.bibleprotector.com/"> BibleProtector.com</a><br /><br />Section Headings Courtesy <a href="http://intbible.com/">INT Bible</a><br />© 2012, Used by Permission<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></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></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/genesis/30-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div align="center"><div align="center"><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>