Genesis 30

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
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!'	1 And Rachel, seeing herself without children, envied her sister, and said to her husband: Give me children, otherwise I shall die.
2 This made Jacob angry with Rachel, and he retorted, 'Am I in the position of God, who has denied youmotherhood?'	2 And Jacob being angry with her, answered: Am I as God, who hath deprived thee of the fruit of thy womb?
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!'	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.
4 So she gave him her slave-girl Bilhah as concubine. Jacob slept with her,	4 And she gave him Bala in marriage: who,
5 and Bilhah conceived and gave birth to a son by Jacob.	5 When her husband had gone in unto her, conceived and bore a son.
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.	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.
7 Again Rachel's slave-girl Bilhah conceived and gave birth to a second son by Jacob.	7 And again Bala conceived and bore another,
8 Then Rachel said, 'I have fought a fateful battle with my sister, and I have won!' So she named himNaphtali.	8 For whom Rachel said: God hath compared me with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called him Nephtali.
9 Now Leah, seeing that she had ceased to bear children, took her slave-girl Zilpah and gave her toJacob as concubine.	9 Lia, perceiving that she had left off bearing, gave Zelpha her handmaid to her husband.
10 So Leah's slave-girl Zilpah gave birth to a son by Jacob.	10 And when she had conceived and brought forth a son,
11 Then Leah exclaimed, 'What good fortune!' So she named him Gad.	11 She said: Happily. And therefore called his name Gad.
12 Leah's slave-girl Zilpah gave birth to a second son by Jacob.	12 Zelpha also bore another.
13 Then Leah said, 'What blessedness! Women will cal me blessed!' So she named him Asher.	13 And Lia said: This is for my happiness: for women will call me blessed. Therefore she called him Aser.
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.'	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.
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.'	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.
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.	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.
17 God heard Leah, and she conceived and gave birth to a fifth son by Jacob.	17 And God heard her prayers: and she conceived and bore the fifth son,
18 Then Leah said, 'God has given me my reward for giving my slave-girl to my husband.' So shenamed him Issachar.	18 And said: God hath given me a reward, because I gave my handmaid to my husband. And she called his name Issachar.
19 Again Leah conceived and gave birth to a sixth son by Jacob,	19 And Lia conceived again, and bore the sixth son,
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.	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.
21 Later she gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah.	21 After whom she bore a daughter, named Diana.
22 Then God remembered Rachel; he heard her and opened her womb.	22 The Lord also remembering Rachel, heard her, and opened her womb.
23 She conceived and gave birth to a son, and said, 'God has taken away my disgrace!'	23 And she conceived, and bore a son, saying: God hath taken my reproach.
24 She named him Joseph, saying, 'May Yahweh add another son for me!'	24 And she called his name Joseph, saying: The Lord give me also another son.
25 When Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, 'Release me and let me go home tomy own country.	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.
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.'	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.
27 Laban replied, 'If I have done what pleases you . . . I have learnt by divination that Yahweh hasblessed me because of 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.
28 So name your wages,' he added, 'and I wil pay.'	28 Appoint thy wages which I shall give thee.
29 He replied, 'You know how hard I have worked for you, and how your stock has fared in my charge.	29 But he answered: Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how great thy possession hath been in my hands.
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?'	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.
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.	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.
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,	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.
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.'	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.
34 Laban replied, 'Good, just as you say.'	34 And Laban said: I like well what thou demandest.
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.	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.
36 Then he put a three days' journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob grazed the rest ofLaban's flock.	36 And he set the space of three days' journey betwixt himself and his son in law, who fed the rest of his flock.
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.	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.
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,	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.
39 the goats thus mated in front of the shoots and so the goats produced striped, spotted and speckledyoung.	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.
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.	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.
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.	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:
42 But when the animals were feeble, he did not put them there; so Laban got the feeble, and Jacob thesturdy.	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.
43 Thus the man grew extremely rich, and came to own large flocks, men and women slaves, camelsand donkeys.	43 And the man was enriched exceedingly, and he had many flocks, maid servants and men servants, camels and asses.