30:14 And Reuben went out in the days of wheat-harvest, and found mandrakes in the fields; and he brought them to his mother Leah. And Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.
30:15 And she said to her, Is it [too] little that thou hast taken my husband, that thou wilt take my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to- night for thy son's mandrakes.
30:16 And when Jacob came from the fields in the evening, Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in to me, for indeed I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.
30:17 And God hearkened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.
30:18 And Leah said, God has given me my hire, because I have given my maidservant to my husband; and she called his name Issachar.
30:19 And Leah again conceived, and bore Jacob a sixth son;
30:20 and Leah said, God has endowed me with a good dowry; this time will my husband dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons. And she called his name Zebulun.
30:21 And afterwards she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
30:22 And God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.
30:23 And she conceived, and bore a son, and said, God has taken away my reproach.
30:24 And she called his name Joseph; and said, Jehovah will add to me another son.
30:25 And it came to pass when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, Send me away, that I may go to my place and to my country.
30:28 And he said, Appoint to me thy wages, and I will give it.
30:29 And he said to him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and what thy cattle has become with me.
30:30 For it was little that thou hadst before me, and it is increased to a multitude, and Jehovah has blessed thee from the time I came; and now, when shall I also provide for my house?
30:31 And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me anything. If thou doest this for me, I will again feed [and] keep thy flock:
30:32 I will pass through all thy flock to-day, to remove thence all the speckled and spotted sheep, and all the brown lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and [that] shall be my hire.
30:33 And my righteousness shall answer for me hereafter, when thou comest about my hire, before thy face: all that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the lambs, let that be stolen with me.
30:34 And Laban said, Well, let it be according to thy word.
30:35 And he removed that day the he-goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the brown among the lambs, and gave [them] into the hand of his sons.
30:37 And Jacob took freshrods of white poplar, almond-tree, and maple; and peeled off white stripes in them, uncovering the white which was on the rods.
30:38 And he set the rods which he had peeled before the flock, in the troughs at the watering-places where the flock came to drink, and they were ardent when they came to drink.
30:39 And the flock was ardent before the rods; and the flock brought forth ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
30:40 And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flock toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he made himself separate flocks, and did not put them with Laban's flock.
30:41 And it came to pass whensoever the strongcattle were ardent, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might become ardent among the rods;
