Genesis 30

DOUAI-RHEIMS	NEW JERUSALEM
1 And Rachel, seeing herself without children, envied her sister, and said to her husband: Give me children, otherwise I shall die.	1 Rachel, seeing that she herself gave Jacob no children, became jealous of her sister. And she said toJacob, 'Give me children, or I shal die!'
2 And Jacob being angry with her, answered: Am I as God, who hath deprived thee of the fruit of thy womb?	2 This made Jacob angry with Rachel, and he retorted, 'Am I in the position of God, who has denied youmotherhood?'
3 But she said: I have here my servant Bala: go in unto her, that she may bear upon my knees, and I may have children by her.	3 So she said, 'Here is my slave-girl, Bilhah. Sleep with her and let her give birth on my knees; throughher, then, I too shal have children!'
4 And she gave him Bala in marriage: who,	4 So she gave him her slave-girl Bilhah as concubine. Jacob slept with her,
5 When her husband had gone in unto her, conceived and bore a son.	5 and Bilhah conceived and gave birth to a son by Jacob.
6 And Rachel said: The Lord hath judged for me, and hath heard my voice, giving me a son, and therefore she called his name Dan.	6 Then Rachel said, 'God has done me justice; yes, he has heard my prayer and given me a son.'Accordingly she named him Dan.
7 And again Bala conceived and bore another,	7 Again Rachel's slave-girl Bilhah conceived and gave birth to a second son by Jacob.
8 For whom Rachel said: God hath compared me with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called him Nephtali.	8 Then Rachel said, 'I have fought a fateful battle with my sister, and I have won!' So she named himNaphtali.
9 Lia, perceiving that she had left off bearing, gave Zelpha her handmaid to her husband.	9 Now Leah, seeing that she had ceased to bear children, took her slave-girl Zilpah and gave her toJacob as concubine.
10 And when she had conceived and brought forth a son,	10 So Leah's slave-girl Zilpah gave birth to a son by Jacob.
11 She said: Happily. And therefore called his name Gad.	11 Then Leah exclaimed, 'What good fortune!' So she named him Gad.
12 Zelpha also bore another.	12 Leah's slave-girl Zilpah gave birth to a second son by Jacob.
13 And Lia said: This is for my happiness: for women will call me blessed. Therefore she called him Aser.	13 Then Leah said, 'What blessedness! Women will cal me blessed!' So she named him Asher.
14 And Ruben, going out in the time of the wheat harvest into the field, found mandrakes: which he brought to his mother Lia. And Rachel said: Give me part of thy son's mandrakes.	14 One day, at the time of the wheat harvest, Reuben found some mandrakes in the field and broughtthem to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, 'Please give me some of your son's mandrakes.'
15 She answered: Dost thou think it a small matter, that thou hast taken my husband from me, unless thou take also my son's mandrakes? Rachel said: He shall sleep with thee this night, for thy son's mandrakes.	15 Leah replied, 'Is it not enough to have taken my husband, without your taking my son's mandrakesas well?' So Rachel said, 'Very wel , he can sleep with you tonight in return for your son's mandrakes.'
16 And when Jacob returned at even from the field, Lia went out to meet him, and said: Thou shalt come in unto me, because I have hired thee for my son's mandrakes. And he slept with her that night.	16 When Jacob came back from the fields that night, Leah went out to meet him and said, 'You mustcome to me, for I have hired you at the price of my son's mandrakes.' So he slept with her that night.
17 And God heard her prayers: and she conceived and bore the fifth son,	17 God heard Leah, and she conceived and gave birth to a fifth son by Jacob.
18 And said: God hath given me a reward, because I gave my handmaid to my husband. And she called his name Issachar.	18 Then Leah said, 'God has given me my reward for giving my slave-girl to my husband.' So shenamed him Issachar.
19 And Lia conceived again, and bore the sixth son,	19 Again Leah conceived and gave birth to a sixth son by Jacob,
20 And said: God hath endowed me with a good dowry: this turn also my husband will be with me, because I have borne him six sons: and therefore she called his name Zabulon.	20 and said, 'God has given me a fine gift; now my husband wil bring me presents, for I have borne himsix sons.' So she named him Zebulun.
21 After whom she bore a daughter, named Diana.	21 Later she gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah.
22 The Lord also remembering Rachel, heard her, and opened her womb.	22 Then God remembered Rachel; he heard her and opened her womb.
23 And she conceived, and bore a son, saying: God hath taken my reproach.	23 She conceived and gave birth to a son, and said, 'God has taken away my disgrace!'
24 And she called his name Joseph, saying: The Lord give me also another son.	24 She named him Joseph, saying, 'May Yahweh add another son for me!'
25 And when Joseph was born, Jacob said to his father in law: Send me away that I may return into my country, and to my land.	25 When Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, 'Release me and let me go home tomy own country.
26 Give me my wives, and my children, for whom I have served thee, that I may depart: thou knowest the service that I have rendered thee.	26 Give me my wives for whom I have worked for you, and my children, and let me go. You are welaware how long I have worked for you.'
27 Laban said to him: Let me find favour in thy sight: I have learned by experience, that God hath blessed me for thy sake.	27 Laban replied, 'If I have done what pleases you . . . I have learnt by divination that Yahweh hasblessed me because of you.
28 Appoint thy wages which I shall give thee.	28 So name your wages,' he added, 'and I wil pay.'
29 But he answered: Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how great thy possession hath been in my hands.	29 He replied, 'You know how hard I have worked for you, and how your stock has fared in my charge.
30 Thou hadst but little before I came to thee, and now thou art become rich: and the Lord hath blessed thee at my coming. It is reasonable therefore that I should now provide also for my own house.	30 The little you had before I came has increased enormously, and Yahweh has blessed you wherever Ihave been. When am I to provide for my own household too?'
31 And Laban said: What shall I give thee? But he said: I require nothing: but if thou wilt do what I demand, I will feed, and keep thy sheep again.	31 Laban said, 'How much am I to pay you?' Jacob replied, 'You need not pay me anything. I shallchange my mind and go on tending your flock, if you do this one thing for me.
32 Go round through all thy flocks, and separate all the sheep of divers colours, and speckled: and all that is brown and spotted, and of divers colours, as well among the sheep, as among the goats, shall be my wages.	32 'Go through your entire flock today and remove every black animal among the sheep, and everyspeckled or spotted one among the goats. These wil be my wages,
33 And my justice shall answer for me to morrow before thee when the time of the bargain shall come: and all that is not of divers colours, and spotted, and brown, as well among the sheep as among the goats, shall accuse me of theft.	33 and my uprightness wil answer for me later: when you come to check my wages, every goat I havethat is not speckled or spotted, and every sheep that is not black will count as stolen by me.'
34 And Laban said: I like well what thou demandest.	34 Laban replied, 'Good, just as you say.'
35 And he separated the name day the she goats, and the sheep, and the he goats, and the rams of divers colours, and spotted: and all the flock of one colour, that is, of white and black fleece, he delivered into the hands of his sons.	35 That same day he removed the striped and speckled he-goats and all the spotted and speckled she-goats, every one that had white on it, and al the black sheep, and entrusted these to his sons.
36 And he set the space of three days' journey betwixt himself and his son in law, who fed the rest of his flock.	36 Then he put a three days' journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob grazed the rest ofLaban's flock.
37 And Jacob took green robs of poplar, and of almond, and of place trees, and pilled them in part: so when the bark was taken off, in the parts that were pilled, there appeared whiteness: but the parts that were whole remained green: and by this means the colour was divers.	37 Jacob then got fresh shoots from poplar, almond and plane trees, and peeled them in white strips,laying bare the white part of the shoots.
38 And he put them in the troughs, where the water was poured out: that when the flocks should come to drink, they might have the rods before their eyes, and in the sight of them might conceive.	38 He set up the shoots he had peeled in front of the animals, in the troughs, in the water-holes wherethe animals came to drink. Since they mated when they came to drink,
39 And it came to pass that in the very heat of coition, the sheep beheld the rods, and brought forth spotted, and of divers colours, and speckled.	39 the goats thus mated in front of the shoots and so the goats produced striped, spotted and speckledyoung.
40 And Jacob separated the flock, and put the rods in the troughs before the eyes of the rams: and all the white and the black were Laban's: and the rest were Jacob's, when the flocks were separated one from the other.	40 The ewes, on the other hand, Jacob kept apart and made these face whatever was striped or blackin Laban's flock. Thus he built up droves of his own which he did not put with Laban's flocks.
41 So when the ewes went first to ram, Jacob put the rods in the roughs of water before the eyes of the rams, and of the ewes, that they might conceive while they were looking upon them:	41 Furthermore, whenever the sturdier animals were mating, Jacob put the shoots where the animalscould see them, in the troughs, so that they would mate in front of the shoots.
42 But when the latter coming was, and the last conceiving, he did not put them. And those that were late ward, become Laban's: and they of the first time, Jacob's.	42 But when the animals were feeble, he did not put them there; so Laban got the feeble, and Jacob thesturdy.
43 And the man was enriched exceedingly, and he had many flocks, maid servants and men servants, camels and asses.	43 Thus the man grew extremely rich, and came to own large flocks, men and women slaves, camelsand donkeys.