ABP - Genesis - 30

30:1  [3saw 1And 2Rachel] that she has not borne to Jacob. And Rachel envied her sister. And she said to Jacob, Give to me a child! and if not, I will come to an end.

30:2  [3being enraged 1And 2Jacob] with Rachel, said to her, [3not 4in place 5of God 1I 2am] who deprived you of the fruit of the belly?

30:3  [3said 1And 2Rachel] to Jacob, Behold, my maidservant Bilhah. Enter to her! and she will bear upon my knees, and [2will produce children 1even I] from her.

30:4  And she gave Bilhah to him -- her maidservant to him as wife. And [2entered 3to 4her 1Jacob].

30:5  And [5conceived 1Bilhah 2the 3maidservant 4of Rachel]. And she bore to Jacob a son.

30:6  And Rachel said, [2judged 3me 1God], and he heeded my voice, and he gave to me a son through this one. On account of this she called his name, Dan.

30:7  And [5conceived 6again 1Bilhah 2the 3maidservant 4of Rachel]. And she bore [2son 1a second] to Jacob.

30:8  And Rachel said, [2aided 3me 1God], and I was twisted by my sister, and I was able. And she called his name, Naphtali.

30:9  [3saw 1And 2Leah] that she stopped bearing. And she took Zilpah her maidservant, and gave her to Jacob as wife.

30:10  And [5conceived 1Zilpah 2the 3maidservant 4of Leah]. And she bore to Jacob a son.

30:11  And Leah said, I am in good luck. And she named his name, Gad.

30:12  And [5conceived 6again 1Zilpah 2the 3maidservant 4of Leah]. And she bore to Jacob [2son 1a second].

30:13  And Leah said, Blessed am I, for [3declare me happy 1the 2women]. And she called his name, Asher.

30:14  [3went 1And 2Reuben] in the day [2harvest 1of the wheat], and he found apples of mandrakes in the field. And he brought them to Leah his mother. [3said 1And 2Rachel] to Leah her sister, Give to me of the mandrakes of your son!

30:15  [3said 1And 2Leah], Is it not fit to you that you took my man, shall also [2of the 3mandrakes 4of my son 1you take]? [3said 1And 2Rachel], Not so, let him go to bed with you this night in return for the mandrakes of your son.

30:16  [3entered 1And 2Jacob] from out of the field at evening. And came forth Leah to meet him. And she said, [2to 3me 1You shall enter] today, for I have hired you in return for the mandrakes of my son. And he went to bed with her that night.

30:17  And God heeded Leah. And conceiving, she bore [2son 1a fifth] to Jacob.

30:18  And Leah said, [2gave 3to me 1God] my wage because I gave my maidservant to my husband. And she called his name, Issachar, which is, Wage.

30:19  And [2conceived 3again 1Leah]. And she bore [2son 1a sixth] to Jacob.

30:20  And Leah said, God has presented to me [2gift 1a good] in the present time, [2will select me 1my man] for having borne to him six sons. And she called his name, Zebulun.

30:21  And after this she bore a daughter, and she called her name, Dinah.

30:22  [3remembered 1And 2God] Rachel. And [2heeded 3her 1God], and he opened her womb.

30:23  And conceiving, she bore to Jacob a son. [3said 1And 2Rachel], God removed from me the scorn.

30:24  And she called his name Joseph, saying, God added to me [2son 1another]!

30:25  And it came to pass when Rachel bore Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, Send me that I may go forth into my place, and unto my land!

30:26  Give to me my wives, and my children! for whom I have served to you, that I might go forth. For you know the servitude which I have served you.

30:27  [3said 1And 4to him 2Laban], If I found favor before you, could I foretell even -- [2blessed 3me 1God] in your entrance.

30:28  You draw your wage from me! and I will give it.

30:29  [3said 1And 2Jacob] to him, You know in what I served you, and how much [3was 2cattle 1of your] with me.

30:30  [3little 1For 2there was] as much as was to you before me, and it was grown into a multitude; and [2blessed 3you 1the lord] by my foot. Now then, when shall [2produce 1I also] for myself a house?

30:31  And Laban said to him, What shall I give to you? [3said 1And 4to him 2Jacob], You shall not give to me anything. If you should do for me this word, again I will tend your flocks, and guard them.

30:32  Let [3go by 1all 2your flocks] today, and you part from there every [2sheep 1gray] among the rams, and all white-mixed and speckled among the goats! It will be to me a wage.

30:33  And [2will take heed 3to me 1my righteousness] in the [2day 1next]; for [2is 1my wage] before you -- all which might not be speckled and white-mixed among the goats, and gray among the rams, [2stolen 1will be as] by me.

30:34  [3said 1And 4to him 2Laban], Let it be according to your word!

30:35  And he drew apart in that day the [2he-goats 1speckled], and the white-mixed, and all the goats, the speckled and the white-mixed, and all gray, the one which was among the rams. And he gave by the hand of his sons.

30:36  And he left a journey of three days between them and between Jacob. And Jacob tended the flocks of Laban -- the ones left behind.

30:37  [3took 1And 4to himself 2Jacob] a rod [2poplar 1of green], and of walnut, and of the plane tree. And [2peeled 3them 1Jacob 5peels 4into white], tearing away the green. And there appeared upon the rods the white which he peeled -- varying.

30:38  And he placed the rods which he peeled at the watering troughs of the channels of the water. That whenever [3came 1the 2flocks] to drink in front of the rods of those having come to drink, the rods should stimulate the flocks at the rods.

30:39  And [3bore 1the 2flocks] white-mixed, and colored, and ashen speckled.

30:40  [4the 1And 5lambs 3drew apart 2Jacob]. And he set [3before 4the 5sheep 1a ram 2white-mixed], and every colored one among the lambs. And he parted to himself flocks for himself, and did not mix them into the flocks of Laban.

30:41  And it came to pass in the time [3which 4he stimulated 1the 2flocks] in the womb, [2taking them 3put 1Jacob] the rods before the flocks at the watering troughs for the purpose of stimulating them by the rods.

30:42  But whenever [3bore 1the 2flocks] he did not place them. [4became 1And 2the 3unmarked] Laban's, and the marked Jacob's.

30:43  And [3became rich 1the 2man] exceedingly, exceedingly. And there was to him [2cattle 1much], and oxen, and manservants, and maidservants, and camels, and donkeys.