Genesis 30 When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else I will die."

VIN⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else I will die." ² But Jacob was angry with Rachel, and said, Am I in the place of God, who has kept your body from having fruit? ³ She said: "Here is my maid Bilhah. Sleep with her, so that she can have a child for me. This way I can become a mother through her." ⁴ So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her. ⁵ Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son. ⁶ Then Rachel said, God has been my judge, and has given ear to my voice, and has given me a son; so he was named Dan. ⁷ And Rachel's slave woman Bilhah conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son. ⁸ Rachel said: "I have struggled hard with my sister, and I have won!" So she named the boy Naphtali. ⁹ When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took Zilpah her female servant and gave her to Jacob as a wife. ¹⁰ And Leah's slave woman Zilpah bore Jacob a son. ¹¹ Then Leah said, "Good fortune!" And she called his name Gad. ¹² And Leah's slave woman Zilpah bore Jacob a second son. ¹³ Then Leah said, "How happy am I! For women have called me happy." So she called his name Asher. ¹⁴ During the wheat harvest Reuben went out into the fields. He found some mandrake plants. He brought them to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah: "Please, give me some of your son's mandrake plants." ¹⁵ 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, "Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son's mandrakes." ¹⁶ When Jacob came in from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him. And she said, "Come in to me, for I have hired you with my son's mandrakes." And he slept with her that night. ¹⁷ God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son. ¹⁸ Then Leah said, God has made payment to me for giving my servant-girl to my husband: so she gave her son the name Issachar. ¹⁹ And Leah conceived again, and bore Jacob a sixth son. ²⁰ Leah said: "God has presented me with a wonderful gift. This time my husband will honor me, because I have given him six sons." So she named him Zebulun. ²¹ And afterwards she gave birth to a daughter and called her name Dinah. ²² Then God remembered Rachel. God listened to her and opened her womb. ²³ And she conceived and gave birth to a son. And she said, "God has taken away my disgrace." ²⁴ She named him Joseph. She said: "May the LORD give me another son." ²⁵ When Rachel gave birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban: "Send me away, that I may go to my own place and to my own country. ²⁶ "Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you. Let me depart. For you know how much service I have done for you." ²⁷ But Laban said to him, "Please, if I have found favor in your eyes, I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you." ²⁸ He continued: "Name your wages, and I will pay." ²⁹ Jacob said to him, “You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me. ³⁰ "The little that you had before I came has grown to a large amount. the LORD has blessed you wherever I have been. When may I do something for my own family?" ³¹ And he said, "What shall I give you?" And Jacob said, "Do not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flocks and keep them. ³² "Let me go through all of your flocks today and take every speckled and spotted sheep, every black lamb, and every spotted and speckled goat. They will be my wages. ³³ "My honesty will speak for itself whenever you come to check on my wages. Any goat I have that is not speckled or spotted or any lamb that is not black will be considered stolen." ³⁴ And Laban said, Let it be as you say. ³⁵ But that day he removed the streaked and spotted male goats and all the speckled and spotted female goats, all that had white on it, and every dark-colored ram, and put them in the charge of his sons. ³⁶ And he put three days` journey between himself and Jacob. And Jacob fed the rest of Laban`s flock. ³⁷ Then Jacob took fresh branches of poplar, almond, and plane trees and peeled white strips on them, exposing the white which was on the branches. ³⁸ He placed these branches in front of the flocks at their drinking troughs. He put them there, because the animals mated when they came to drink. ³⁹ So when the goats bred in front of the branches, they produced young that were streaked, speckled, and spotted. ⁴⁰ And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flock toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he made himself separate flocks, and did not put them with Laban`s flock. ⁴¹ When the strongest of the flock were mating, Jacob would place the rods in the sight of the flock in the gutters, so that they might mate by the rods. ⁴² but when the flock were weak, he did not put them in. So the weaker were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's. ⁴³ And the man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, and maid-servants and men-servants, and camels and donkeys.