BERESHITH (GENESIS) 30

Gen 30:1 And when Raḥĕl saw that she bore Ya‛aqoḇ no children, Raḥĕl
envied her sister, and said to Ya‛aqoḇ, “Give me children, or else I am going
to die!”
Gen 30:2 And Ya‛aqoḇ’s displeasure burned against Raḥĕl, and he said,
“Am I in the place of Elohim, who has withheld from you the fruit of the
womb?”
Gen 30:3 And she said, “See, my female servant Bilhah; go in to her, and let
her bear for me, and let me be built up from her as well.”
Gen 30:4 So she gave him Bilhah her female servant as wife, and Ya‛aqoḇ
went in to her.
Gen 30:5 And Bilhah conceived and bore Ya‛aqoḇ a son.
Gen 30:6 And Raḥĕl said, “Elohim has rightly ruled my case, and has also
heard my voice and given me a son.” So she called his name Dan.
Gen 30:7 And Raḥĕl’s female servant Bilhah conceived again and bore
Ya‛aqoḇ a second son.
Gen 30:8 And Raḥĕl said, “With great wrestlings I have wrestled with my
sister, and I have overcome.” So she called his name Naphtali.
Gen 30:9 And Lĕ’ah saw that she had ceased bearing, and she took Zilpah
her female servant and gave her to Ya‛aqoḇ as wife.
Gen 30:10 And Lĕ’ah’s female servant Zilpah bore Ya‛aqoḇ a son.
Gen 30:11 And Lĕ’ah said, “With Gaḏ!” So she called his name Gaḏ.
Gen 30:12 And Lĕ’ah’s female servant Zilpah bore Ya‛aqoḇ a second son.
Gen 30:13 And Lĕ’ah said, “I am blessed, for the daughters shall call me
blessed.” So she called his name Ashĕr.
Gen 30:14 And Re’uḇĕn went in the days of wheat harvest and found love-
apples in the field, and brought them to his mother Lĕ’ah. And Raḥĕl said to
Lĕ’ah, “Please give me some of your son’s love-apples.”
Gen 30:15 But she said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away
my husband? Would you take away my son’s love-apples too?” And Raḥĕl
said, “Therefore let him lie with you tonight for your son’s love-apples.”
Gen 30:16 And when Ya‛aqoḇ came out of the field in the evening, Lĕ’ah
went out to meet him and said, “Do come in to me, for indeed, I have hired
you with my son’s love-apples.” And he lay with her that night.
Gen 30:17 And Elohim listened to Lĕ’ah, and she conceived and bore
Ya‛aqoḇ a fifth son.
Gen 30:18 And Lĕ’ah said, “Elohim has given me my hire, because I have
given my female servant to my husband.” So she called his name Yissasḵar.
Gen 30:19 And Lĕ’ah conceived again and bore Ya‛aqoḇ a sixth son.
Gen 30:20 And Lĕ’ah said, “Elohim has presented me with a good present.
Now my husband is going to dwell with me, because I have borne him six
sons.” So she called his name Zeḇulun.
Gen 30:21 And afterward she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
Gen 30:22 And Elohim remembered Raḥĕl, and Elohim listened to her and
opened her womb.
Gen 30:23 And she conceived, and bore a son, and said, “Elohim has taken
away my reproach.”
Gen 30:24 So she called his name Yosĕph, and said, “ יהוה has added to me
another son.”
Gen 30:25 And it came to be, when Raḥĕl had borne Yosĕph, that Ya‛aqoḇ
said to Laḇan, “Send me on my way, to go to my own place and to my land.
Gen 30:26 “Give my wives and my children for whom I have served you,
and let me go, for you yourself know my service which I have done for you.”
Gen 30:27 And Laḇan said to him, “If I have found favour in your eyes,
please stay, for I have diligently watched that יהוה has blessed me for your
sake.”
Gen 30:28 And he said, “Name me your wages, and I give it.”
Gen 30:29 So he said to him, “You know how I have served you and how
your livestock has been with me.
Gen 30:30 “For the little you had before I came has increased greatly, and
יהוה has blessed you since my coming. But now, when am I to provide for my
own house too?”
Gen 30:31 And he said, “What do I give you?” And Ya‛aqoḇ said, “Give me
naught! If you do this for me, I shall again feed and guard your flocks:
Gen 30:32 “Let me pass through all your flock today, removing from there
all the speckled and spotted sheep, and all the black ones among the lambs,
and the spotted and speckled among the goats. And these shall be my wages.
Gen 30:33 “And my righteousness shall answer for me in time to come,
when you come concerning my wages: every one that is not speckled and
spotted among the goats, and black among the lambs, it is stolen if it is with
me.”
Gen 30:34 And Laḇan said, “See, let it be according to your word!”
Gen 30:35 And on that day he set aside the male goats that were speckled
and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every
one that had some white in it, and all the black ones among the lambs, and
gave them into the hand of his sons.
Gen 30:36 And he put three days’ journey between himself and Ya‛aqoḇ,
and Ya‛aqoḇ fed the rest of Laḇan’s flocks.
Gen 30:37 And Ya‛aqoḇ took for himself rods of green poplar and of the
almond and chestnut trees, peeled white strips in them, and exposed the white
which was in the rods.
Gen 30:38 And he set the rods which he had peeled before the flocks in the
gutters, in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink, and they
conceived when they came to drink.
Gen 30:39 So the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought
forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.
Gen 30:40 And Ya‛aqoḇ separated the lambs, and made the flocks face
toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laḇan, but he put his own
flocks by themselves and did not put them with Laḇan’s flock.
Gen 30:41 And it came to be, whenever the strong ones of the flock
conceived, that Ya‛aqoḇ placed the rods before the eyes of the flock in the
gutters, so they would conceive among the rods.
Gen 30:42 But when the flocks were weak, he did not put them in, so the
weak ones were Laḇan’s and the strong ones Ya‛aqoḇ’s.
Gen 30:43 Thus the man increased very much, and had many flocks, and
female and male servants, and camels and donkeys.