1 And Rachel saw that she had not borne to Jacob, and Rachel was envious of her sister, and said to Jacob, “Give me sons, and if there is none—I die.” 2 And Jacob’s anger burnt against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in stead of God who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?” 3 And she said, “Look, my handmaid Bilhah, go in to her, and she gives birth on my knees, and I [am built up|?mother a child, even I, from her.” 4 And she gave Bilhah her maidservant to him for a wife, and Jacob goes in to her. 5 and Bilhah conceived, and gave birth to a son to Jacob, 6 and Rachel said, “God has decided for me, and has also listened to my voice, and gives a son to me.” Therefore she had called his name Dan. 7 And Bilhah, Rachel’s maidservant, conceived again, and gave birth to a second son to Jacob, 8 and Rachel said, “With wrestlings of God I have wrestled with my sister, indeed, I have prevailed.” And she called his name Napthali. 9 And Leah saw that she had ceased from giving birth, and she took Zilpah her maidservant, and gave her to Jacob for a wife. 10 And Zilpah, Leah’s maidservant, gave birth to a son to Jacob, 11 and Leah said, “A troop is coming.” And she called his name Gad. 12 And Zilpah, Leah’s maidservant, gave birth to a second son to Jacob, 13 and Leah said, “Because of my happiness, for daughters have pronounced me blessed.” And she called his name Asher. 14 And Reuben goes in the days of wheat-harvest, and found love-apples in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah, and Rachel said to Leah, “Please give to me of the love-apples of your son.” 15 And she said to her, “Is your taking my husband a little thing, that you have also taken the love-apples of my son?” And Rachel said, “He therefore lies with you tonight, for your son’s love-apples.” 16 And Jacob came in from the field at evening. And Leah goes to meet him and said, “You come in to me, for in hiring I have hired you with my son’s love-apples.” And he lay with her during that night. 17 And God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and gave birth to a son to Jacob, a fifth, 18 and Leah said, “God has given my hire, because I have given my maidservant to my husband.” And she called his name Issachar. 19 And Leah conceived again, and she gave birth to a sixth son to Jacob, 20 and Leah said, “God has endowed me—a good dowry. This time my husband will stay with me, for I have given birth to six sons to him.” And she called his name Zebulun. 21 And afterward she had given birth to a daughter, and called her name Dinah. 22 And God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb, 23 and she conceived and gave birth to a son, and said, “God has gathered up my reproach.” 24 And she called his name Joseph, saying, “YHWH is adding to me another son.” 25 And it came to pass, when Rachel had given birth to Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, and I go to my place, and to my land. 26 Give up my wives and my children, for whom I have served you, and I go. For you have known my service which I have served you.” 27 And Laban said to him, “Now if I have found grace in your eyes—I have observed diligently that YHWH blessed me for your sake.” 28 He also said, “Define your hire to me, and I give.” 29 And he said to him, “You have known that which I have served you in, and that which your substance was with me. 30 For it is little which you have had at my appearance, and it breaks out into a multitude, and YHWH blessed you at my coming. And now, when do I make, I also, for my own house?” 31 And he said, “What do I give to you?” And Jacob said, “You do not give me anything. If you do this thing for me, I turn back. I have delight. I watch your flock. 32 I pass through all your flock today to turn aside every speckled and spotted sheep from there, and every brown sheep among the lambs, and speckled and spotted among the goats—and it has been my hire. 33 And my righteousness has answered for me in the day to come, when it comes in for my hire before your face—everyone which is not speckled and spotted among my goats, and brown among my lambs—it is stolen with me.” 34 And Laban said, “Look, O that it were according to your word.” 35 And he turned aside during that day the striped and the spotted male goats, and all the speckled and the spotted female goats, everyone that had white in it, and every brown one among the lambs, and he gave them into the hand of his sons, 36 and set a journey of three days between himself and Jacob. And Jacob was feeding the rest of the flock of Laban. 37 And Jacob took to himself a rod of fresh poplar and almond and plane-tree, and peeled in them white peelings, making bare the white that was on the rods, 38 and set up the rods which he had peeled in the gutters in the watering troughs (where the flock comes to drink), in front of the flock, that they may conceive in their coming to drink. 39 And the flocks conceived at the rods, and the flock gave birth to striped, speckled, and spotted ones. 40 And Jacob had parted the lambs, and he put the face of the flock toward the striped, also all the brown in the flock of Laban, and he set his own droves by themselves, and had not set them near Laban’s flock. 41 And it had come to pass, whenever the strong ones of the flock conceived, that Jacob set the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, to cause them to conceive by the rods, 42 and when the flock is feeble, he did not set them. And the feeble ones had been Laban’s, and the strong ones Jacob’s. 43 And the man increased very exceedingly, and had many flocks, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and donkeys.