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And she will call his name 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>And Leah will see that she stood from bringing forth, and she will take Zilpah her maid and will give her to Jacob for a wife. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And Zilpah, Leah's maid, will bear to Jacob a son. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And Leah will say, In good fortune: and she will call his name Gad. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And Zilpah, Leah's maid, will bear a second son to Jacob. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And Leah will say, In my happiness, for the daughters will pronounce me happy; and she will call his name Asher.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And Reuben will go in the day of the harvest of wheat, and will find apples of mandrakes in the field, and he will bring them to Leah his mother: and Rachel will say to Leah, Give now to me of thy son's apples of mandrakes. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And she will say to her, Is it little, thy taking my husband'! and thou didst take also my son's apples of mandrakes? And Rachel will say, For this he shall lie with thee this night, for thy son's apples of mandrakes. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And Jacob will come from the field in the evening, and Leah will go forth to his meeting, and she will say, Thou shalt come in to me, for hiring I hired thee for my son's apples of mandrakes: and he will lie with her in 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 will listen to Leah, and she will conceive and bear to Jacob the fifth son. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And Leah will say, God gave me My hire because I gave my maid to my husband: and she will call his name Issachar. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And Leah will conceive yet again, and will bear the sixth son to Jacob. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And Leah will say, God gave me a good gift; this time will my husband dwell with me, for I have borne to him six sons. And she will call his name Zebulon. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And afterwards she bare a daughter, and she will call her name 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>And God will remember Rachel, and God will listen to her, and he will open her womb. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And she will conceive and will bare a son, and she will say, God took away my reproach. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And she will call his name Joseph, saying, God will add 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>And it shall be when Rachel bare Joseph, and Jacob will say to Laban, send me away, and I shall go to my place and to my land. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Give my wives and my children, for whom I served thee, and I will go forth; for thou knewest ray work which I served thee. <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And Laban will say to him, If now I found grace in thine eyes, I prognosticated, and Jehovah will praise me because of thee. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And he will say, Specify thy hire to me, and I will give. <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And he will say to him, Thou knewest what I served thee, and what was thy cattle with me. <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>For little which was to thee before me, and it will break forth into a multitude; and Jehovah will praise thee at my foot: and now when shall I make to myself a house? <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And he will say, What shall I give to thee? and Jacob will say, Thou shalt not give to me anything. If thou wilt do to me this word, I will return; I will feed thy sheep; I will watch. <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>I will pass over among all thy sheep this day, removing from thence every sheep speckled and patched, and every sheep black among the lambs; and the patched and speckled among the she-goats; and it shall be my hire. <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And my justice shall speak for me in the day tomorrow, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one which is not speckled and patched among the she-goats and black among the lambs, that to be stolen with me. <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And Laban will say to him, Behold, it shall be according to thy word. <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>And he will remove in that day the he-goats banded and patched, and all the she-goats speckled and patched; every one which being white on it, and every one black among the sheep, and he will give into the hand of his sons. <A name="37"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>And he will set a way of three days between him and between Jacob; and Jacob fed Laban's sheep the rest.<p> <A name="38"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>And Jacob will take to himself a rod of green storax, and the almond tree, and the plane tree, and he will strip off of them the white strippings, uncovering the white which was upon the rods. <A name="39"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>And he set the rods which he stripped, in the flowings of channels of water, when the flock shall come to drink, before the sheep, and they shall be in heat in coming to drink. <A name="40"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>And the sheep shall conceive at the rods, and shall bring forth sheep banded and speckled and patched. <A name="41"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>And Jacob separated the lambs, and he will give the faces of the sheep to the banded and every one black among the sheep of Laban: and he will set to himself the flocks, to himself alone, and not put them with Laban's sheep. <A name="42"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>And it was in every one conceiving of the strong sheep, and Jacob put the rods before the eyes of the sheep in the floorings, to conceive among the rods. <A name="43"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>And in the sheep being feeble, he will not put in: and those being feeble, were to Laban, and those being strong, to Jacob. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/30-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>And the man will break forth greatly, greatly; and there will be to him many sheep and maids, and servants, and camels and asses.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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