30:23
And she conceived, and bore a son, and said: 'God hath taken away my reproach.'
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30:24
And she called his name Joseph, saying: 'The the Lord add to me another son.'
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30:25
And it came to pass, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban: 'Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country.
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30:26
Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served thee, and let me go; for thou knowest my service wherewith I have served thee.'
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30:27
And Laban said unto him: 'If now I have found favour in thine eyes--I have observed the signs, and the Lord hath blessed me for thy sake.'
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30:28
And he said: 'Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.'
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30:29
And he said unto him: 'Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle have fared with me.
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30:30
For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it hath increased abundantly; and the Lord hath blessed thee whithersoever I turned. And now when shall I provide for mine own house also?'
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30:31
And he said: 'What shall I give thee?' And Jacob said: 'Thou shalt not give me aught; if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed thy flock and keep it.
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30:32
I will pass through all thy flock to-day, removing from thence every speckled and spotted one, and every dark one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and of such shall be my hire.
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So shall my righteousness witness against me hereafter, when thou shalt come to look over my hire that is before thee: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and dark among the sheep, that if found with me shall be counted stolen.'
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30:34
And Laban said: 'Behold, would it might be according to thy word.'
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30:35
And he removed that day the he-goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the dark ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
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30:36
And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob. And Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
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30:37
And Jacob took him rods of fresh poplar, and of the almond and of the plane-tree; and peeled white streaks in them, making the white appear which was in the rods.
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30:38
And he set the rods which he had peeled over against the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink; and they conceived when they came to drink.
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30:39
And the flocks conceived at the sight of the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.
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30:40
And Jacob separated the lambs--he also set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the dark in the flock of Laban-- and put his own droves apart, and put them not unto Laban's flock.
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And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger of the flock did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods;
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but when the flock were feeble, he put them not in; so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
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30:43
And the man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, and maid-servants and men-servants, and camels and asses.
-- End of Genesis - Chapter 030 --
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Genesis - Chapter 031
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And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying: 'Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this wealth.'
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And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as beforetime.
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And the Lord said unto Jacob: 'Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.'
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31:4
And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock,
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31:5
and said unto them: 'I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as beforetime; but the God of my father hath been with me.
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31:6
And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.
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31:7
And your father hath mocked me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
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31:8
If he said thus: The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the flock bore speckled; and if he said thus: The streaked shall be thy wages; then bore all the flock streaked.
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31:9
Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
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31:10
And it came to pass at the time that the flock conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the he-goats which leaped upon the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled.
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31:11
And the angel of God said unto me in the dream: Jacob; and I said: Here am I.
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31:12
And he said: Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the he-goats which leap upon the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled; for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
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I am the God of Beth-el, where thou didst anoint a pillar, where thou didst vow a vow unto Me. Now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy nativity.'
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31:14
And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him: 'Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
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31:15
Are we not accounted by him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath also quite devoured our price.
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31:16
For all the riches which God hath taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's. Now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.' .
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31:17
Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon the camels;
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31:18
and he carried away all his cattle, and all his substance which he had gathered, the cattle of his getting, which he had gathered in Paddan-aram, to go to Isaac his father unto the land of Canaan.