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Genesis 30

The Message Bible MSG

1 When Rachel realized that she wasn't having any children for Jacob, she became jealous of her sister. She told Jacob, "Give me sons or I'll die!"

2 Jacob got angry with Rachel and said, "Am I God? Am I the one who refused you babies?"

3 Rachel said, "Here's my maid Bilhah. Sleep with her. Let her substitute for me so I can have a child through her and build a family."

4 So she gave him her maid Bilhah for a wife and Jacob slept with her.

5 Bilhah became pregnant and gave Jacob a son.

6 Rachel said, "God took my side and vindicated me. He listened to me and gave me a son." She named him Dan (Vindication).

7 Rachel's maid Bilhah became pregnant again and gave Jacob a second son.

8 Rachel said, "I've been in an all-out fight with my sister - and I've won." So she named him Naphtali (Fight).

9 When Leah saw that she wasn't having any more children, she gave her maid Zilpah to Jacob for a wife.

10 Zilpah had a son for Jacob.

11 Leah said, "How fortunate!" and she named him Gad (Lucky).

12 When Leah's maid Zilpah had a second son for Jacob,

13 Leah said, "A happy day! The women will congratulate me in my happiness." So she named him Asher (Happy).

14 One day during the wheat harvest Reuben found some mandrakes in the field and brought them home to his mother Leah. Rachel asked Leah, "Could I please have some of your son's mandrakes?"

15 Leah said, "Wasn't it enough that you got my husband away from me? And now you also want my son's mandrakes?" Rachel said, "All right. I'll let him sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son's love-apples."

16 When Jacob came home that evening from the fields, Leah was there to meet him: "Sleep with me tonight; I've bartered my son's mandrakes for a night with you." So he slept with her that night.

17 God listened to Leah; she became pregnant and gave Jacob a fifth son.

18 She said, "God rewarded me for giving my maid to my husband." She named him Issachar (Bartered).

19 Leah became pregnant yet again and gave Jacob a sixth son,

20 saying, "God has given me a great gift. This time my husband will honor me with gifts - I've given him six sons!" She named him Zebulun (Honor).

21 Last of all she had a daughter and named her Dinah.

22 And then God remembered Rachel. God listened to her and opened her womb.

23 She became pregnant and had a son. She said, "God has taken away my humiliation."

24 She named him Joseph (Add), praying, "May God add yet another son to me."

25 After Rachel had had Joseph, Jacob spoke to Laban, "Let me go back home.

26 Give me my wives and children for whom I've served you. You know how hard I've worked for you."

27 Laban said, "If you please, I have learned through divine inquiry that God has blessed me because of you."

28 He went on, "So name your wages. I'll pay you."

29 Jacob replied, "You know well what my work has meant to you and how your livestock has flourished under my care.

30 The little you had when I arrived has increased greatly; everything I did resulted in blessings for you. Isn't it about time that I do something for my own family?"

31 "So, what should I pay you?"

32 Go through your entire flock today and take out every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, every spotted or speckled goat. They will be my wages.

33 That way you can check on my honesty when you assess my wages. If you find any goat that's not speckled or spotted or a sheep that's not black, you will know that I stole it."

34 "Fair enough," said Laban. "It's a deal."

35 But that very day Laban removed all the mottled and spotted billy goats and all the speckled and spotted nanny-goats, every animal that had even a touch of white on it plus all the black sheep and placed them under the care of his sons.

36 Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob. Meanwhile Jacob went on tending what was left of Laban's flock.

37 But Jacob got fresh branches from poplar, almond, and plane trees and peeled the bark, leaving white stripes on them.

38 He stuck the peeled branches in front of the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. When the flocks were in heat, they came to drink

39 and mated in front of the streaked branches. Then they gave birth to young that were streaked or spotted or speckled.

40 Jacob placed the ewes before the dark-colored animals of Laban. That way he got distinctive flocks for himself which he didn't mix with Laban's flocks.

41 And when the sturdier animals were mating, Jacob placed branches at the troughs in view of the animals so that they mated in front of the branches.

42 But he wouldn't set up the branches before the feebler animals. That way the feeble animals went to Laban and the sturdy ones to Jacob.

43 The man got richer and richer, acquiring huge flocks, lots and lots of servants, not to mention camels and donkeys.

The Latin Vulgate VUL

1 cernens autem Rahel quod infecunda esset invidit sorori et ait marito suo da mihi liberos alioquin moriar

2 cui iratus respondit Iacob num pro Deo ego sum qui privavit te fructu ventris tui

3 at illa habeo inquit famulam Balam ingredere ad eam ut pariat super genua mea et habeam ex ea filios

4 deditque illi Balam in coniugium quae

5 ingresso ad se viro concepit et peperit filium

6 dixitque Rahel iudicavit mihi Dominus et exaudivit vocem meam dans mihi filium et idcirco appellavit nomen illius Dan

7 rursumque Bala concipiens peperit alterum

8 pro quo ait Rahel conparavit me Deus cum sorore mea et invalui vocavitque eum Nepthalim

9 sentiens Lia quod parere desisset Zelpham ancillam suam marito tradidit

10 qua post conceptum edente filium

11 dixit feliciter et idcirco vocavit nomen eius Gad

12 peperit quoque Zelpha alterum

13 dixitque Lia hoc pro beatitudine mea beatam quippe me dicent mulieres propterea appellavit eum Aser

14 egressus autem Ruben tempore messis triticeae in agro repperit mandragoras quos matri Liae detulit dixitque Rahel da mihi partem de mandragoris filii tui

15 illa respondit parumne tibi videtur quod praeripueris maritum mihi nisi etiam mandragoras filii mei tuleris ait Rahel dormiat tecum hac nocte pro mandragoris filii tui

16 redeuntique ad vesperam de agro Iacob egressa est in occursum Lia et ad me inquit intrabis quia mercede conduxi te pro mandragoris filii mei dormivit cum ea nocte illa

17 et exaudivit Deus preces eius concepitque et peperit filium quintum

18 et ait dedit Deus mercedem mihi quia dedi ancillam meam viro meo appellavitque nomen illius Isachar

19 rursum Lia concipiens peperit sextum filium

20 et ait ditavit me Deus dote bona etiam hac vice mecum erit maritus meus eo quod genuerim ei sex filios et idcirco appellavit nomen eius Zabulon

21 post quem peperit filiam nomine Dinam

22 recordatus quoque Dominus Rahelis exaudivit eam et aperuit vulvam illius

23 quae concepit et peperit filium dicens abstulit Deus obprobrium meum

24 et vocavit nomen illius Ioseph dicens addat mihi Dominus filium alterum

25 nato autem Ioseph dixit Iacob socero suo dimitte me ut revertar in patriam et ad terram meam

26 da mihi uxores et liberos meos pro quibus servivi tibi ut abeam tu nosti servitutem qua servivi tibi

27 ait ei Laban inveniam gratiam in conspectu tuo experimento didici quod benedixerit mihi Deus propter te

28 constitue mercedem tuam quam dem tibi

29 at ille respondit tu nosti quomodo servierim tibi et quanta in manibus meis fuerit possessio tua

30 modicum habuisti antequam venirem et nunc dives effectus es benedixitque tibi Dominus ad introitum meum iustum est igitur ut aliquando provideam etiam domui meae

31 dixitque Laban quid dabo tibi at ille ait nihil volo sed si feceris quod postulo iterum pascam et custodiam pecora tua

32 gyra omnes greges tuos et separa cunctas oves varias et sparso vellere et quodcumque furvum et maculosum variumque fuerit tam in ovibus quam in capris erit merces mea

33 respondebitque mihi cras iustitia mea quando placiti tempus advenerit coram te et omnia quae non fuerint varia et maculosa et furva tam in ovibus quam in capris furti me arguent

34 dixit Laban gratum habeo quod petis

35 et separavit in die illo capras et oves hircos et arietes varios atque maculosos cunctum autem gregem unicolorem id est albi et nigri velleris tradidit in manu filiorum suorum

36 et posuit spatium itineris inter se et generum dierum trium qui pascebat reliquos greges eius

37 tollens ergo Iacob virgas populeas virides et amigdalinas et ex platanis ex parte decorticavit eas detractisque corticibus in his quae spoliata fuerant candor apparuit illa vero quae integra erant viridia permanserunt atque in hunc modum color effectus est varius

38 posuitque eas in canalibus ubi effundebatur aqua ut cum venissent greges ad bibendum ante oculos haberent virgas et in aspectu earum conciperent

39 factumque est ut in ipso calore coitus oves intuerentur virgas et parerent maculosa et varia et diverso colore respersa

40 divisitque gregem Iacob et posuit virgas ante oculos arietum erant autem alba quaeque et nigra Laban cetera vero Iacob separatis inter se gregibus

41 igitur quando primo tempore ascendebantur oves ponebat Iacob virgas in canalibus aquarum ante oculos arietum et ovium ut in earum contemplatione conciperent

42 quando vero serotina admissura erat et conceptus extremus non ponebat eas factaque sunt ea quae erant serotina Laban et quae primi temporis Iacob

43 ditatusque est homo ultra modum et habuit greges multos ancillas et servos camelos et asinos