Genesis 30:1,2 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. And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel. And he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?

Genesis 30:3-8 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. And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife. And Jacob went in unto her. And Bilhah conceived and bare Jacob a son. And Rachel said, God has judged me and has also heard my voice and has given me a son. Therefore called she his name Dan. And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again and bare Jacob a second son. And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister and I have prevailed and she called his name Naphtali.

Genesis 30:9,10 When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid and gave her Jacob to wife. And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son. 

Genesis 30:11 And Leah said, A troop.(original for word 'troop' means 'a good thing', 'good fortune').comes. And she called his name Gad.

Genesis 30:12,13 And Zilpah.Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son. And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed. And she called his name Asher.

Genesis 30:14,15 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 your son's mandrakes. And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that you have taken my husband? And would you take away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with you tonight for your son's mandrakes.

Rachel who usually now slept with Jacob, was giving her sister Leah a turn in bed with him in exchange for the mandrakes.

Genesis 30:16 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.

Genesis 30:20 And Leah said, God has endued me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons. And she called his name Zebulun.

Genesis 30:22 And God remembered Rachel and God hearkened to her and opened her womb.

Genesis 30:23 And she conceived and bare a son and said, God has taken away my reproach.

Genesis 30:24 And she called his name Joseph and said, God  has added to me another son.

Genesis 30:25 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.

Genesis 30:26 Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee and let me go. For you know my service which I have done for you.

Genesis 30:27 And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in your eyes, tarry. For I have learned by experience that God has blessed me for your sake.

Laban was prospered by Joseph working hard for him.

Genesis 30:28 And he said, Appoint me your wages and I will give it.

Let me know how much I owe you.

Genesis 30:29 And he.(Jacob).said unto him, You know how I have served you and how your cattle was with me.

Genesis 30:30 For it was little that you had before I came and it is now increased unto a multitude and God has blessed you since my coming. And now I want to provide for my own family also?

Genesis 30:31,32 And he said, What shall I give you? And Jacob said, You shall not have to give me any thing if you do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep your flock. I will pass through all your flock today, 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 of such shall be what you pay me and and is considered to be your full payment for all my services.

Genesis 30:33,34 So righteousness answer for me in time to come.(Barnes Notes: Jacob was saying that the color will determine at once whose the animal is if they get mixed up). Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted as stolen by me. And Laban said, Behold, I agree that it will be according to your word.

Genesis 30:35 And Laban removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted and every one that had some white in it and all the brown among the sheep and gave them into the hand of his sons to look after and take them to Jacob's new place.

The selections could be verified by Jacob anytime he wanted to examine Laban's cattle.

Genesis 30:36 And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob. And Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.

Genesis 30:37,38 And Jacob took him rods of green poplar and of the hazel and chestnut tree and pilled white strakes in them and made the white appear which was in the rods. 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.

Genesis 30:39-42 And the flocks conceived before the rods and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled and spotted. 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. 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. But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in. So the feebler were Laban's and the stronger Jacob's. 

Genesis 30:43 And the man Jacob increased exceedingly and had much cattle and maidservants and menservants and camels and asses.

....continues to Chapter 31

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