30:1And Rachel seeth that she hath not borne to Jacob, and Rachel is envious of her sister, and saith unto Jacob, `Give me sons, and if there is none -- I die.'

30:2And Jacob's anger burneth against Rachel, and he saith, `Am I in stead of God who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?'

30:3And she saith, `Lo, my handmaid Bilhah, go in unto her, and she doth bear on my knees, and I am built up, even I, from her;'

30:4and she giveth to him Bilhah her maid-servant for a wife, and Jacob goeth in unto her;

30:5and Bilhah conceiveth, and beareth to Jacob a son,

30:6and Rachel saith, `God hath decided for me, and also hath hearkened to my voice, and giveth to me a son;' therefore hath she called his name Dan.

30:7And Bilhah, Rachel's maid-servant, conceiveth again, and beareth a second son to Jacob,

30:8and Rachel saith, `With wrestlings of God I have wrestled with my sister, yea, I have prevailed;' and she calleth his name Napthali.

30:9And Leah seeth that she hath ceased from bearing, and she taketh Zilpah her maid-servant, and giveth her to Jacob for a wife;

30:10and Zilpah, Leah's maid-servant, beareth to Jacob a son,

30:11and Leah saith, `A troop is coming;' and she calleth his name Gad.

30:12And Zilpah, Leah's maid-servant, beareth a second son to Jacob,

30:13and Leah saith, `Because of my happiness, for daughters have pronounced me happy;' and she calleth his name Asher.

30:14And Reuben goeth in the days of wheat-harvest, and findeth love-apples in the field, and bringeth them in unto Leah, his mother, and Rachel saith unto Leah, `Give to me, I pray thee, of the love-apples of thy son.'

30:15And she saith to her, `Is thy taking my husband a little thing, that thou hast taken also the love-apples of my son?' and Rachel saith, `Therefore doth he lie with thee to-night, for thy son's love-apples.'

30:16And Jacob cometh in from the field at evening; and Leah goeth to meet him, and saith, `Unto me dost thou come in, for hiring I have hired thee with my son's love-apples;' and he lieth with her during that night.

30:17And God hearkeneth unto Leah, and she conceiveth, and beareth to Jacob a son, a fifth,

30:18and Leah saith, `God hath given my hire, because I have given my maid-servant to my husband;' and she calleth his name Issachar.

30:19And conceive again doth Leah, and she beareth a sixth son to Jacob,

30:20and Leah saith, `God hath endowed me -- a good dowry; this time doth my husband dwell with me, for I have borne to him six sons;' and she calleth his name Zebulun;

30:21and afterwards hath she born a daughter, and calleth her name Dinah.

30:22And God remembereth Rachel, and God hearkeneth unto her, and openeth her womb,

30:23and she conceiveth and beareth a son, and saith, `God hath gathered up my reproach;'

30:24and she calleth his name Joseph, saying, `Jehovah is adding to me another son.'

30:25And it cometh to pass, when Rachel hath borne Joseph, that Jacob saith unto Laban, `Send me away, and I go unto my place, and to my land;

30:26give up my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and I go; for thou -- thou hast known my service which I have served thee.'

30:27And Laban saith unto him, `If, I pray thee, I have found grace in thine eyes -- I have observed diligently that Jehovah doth bless me for thy sake.'

30:28He saith also, `Define thy hire to me, and I give.'

30:29And he saith unto him, `Thou -- thou hast known that which I have served thee in, and that which thy substance was with me;

30:30for it is little which thou hast had at my appearance, and it breaketh forth into a multitude, and Jehovah blesseth thee at my coming; and now, when do I make, I also, for mine own house?'

30:31And he saith, `What do I give to thee?' And Jacob saith, `Thou dost not give me anything; if thou do for me this thing, I turn back; I have delight; thy flock I watch;

30:32I pass through all thy flock to-day to turn aside from thence every sheep speckled and spotted, and every brown sheep among the lambs, and speckled and spotted among the goats -- and it hath been my hire;

30:33and my righteousness hath answered for me in the day to come, when it cometh in for my hire before thy face; -- every one which is not speckled and spotted among my goats, and brown among my lambs -- it is stolen with me.'

30:34And Laban saith, `Lo, O that it were according to thy word;'

30:35and he turneth aside during that day the ring-straked and the spotted he-goats, and all the speckled and the spotted she-goats, every one that hath white in it, and every brown one among the lambs, and he giveth into the hand of his sons,

30:36and setteth a journey of three days between himself and Jacob; and Jacob is feeding the rest of the flock of Laban.

30:37And Jacob taketh to himself a rod of fresh poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut, and doth peel in them white peelings, making bare the white that is on the rods,

30:38and setteth up the rods which he hath peeled in the gutters in the watering troughs (when the flock cometh in to drink), over-against the flock, that they may conceive in their coming in to drink;

30:39and the flocks conceive at the rods, and the flock beareth ring-straked, speckled, and spotted ones.

30:40And the lambs hath Jacob parted, and he putteth the face of the flock towards the ring-straked, also all the brown in the flock of Laban, and he setteth his own droves by themselves, and hath not set them near Laban's flock.

30:41And it hath come to pass whenever the strong ones of the flock conceive, that Jacob set the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, to cause them to conceive by the rods,

30:42and when the flock is feeble, he doth not set them; and the feeble ones have been Laban's, and the strong ones Jacob's.

30:43And the man increaseth very exceedingly, and hath many flocks, and maid-servants, and men-servants, and camels, and asses.

31:1And he heareth the words of Laban's sons, saying, `Jacob hath taken all that our father hath; yea, from that which our father hath, he hath made all this honour;'

31:2and Jacob seeth the face of Laban, and lo, it is not with him as heretofore.

31:3And Jehovah saith unto Jacob, `Turn back unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred, and I am with thee.'

31:4And Jacob sendeth and calleth for Rachel and for Leah to the field unto his flock;

31:5and saith to them, `I am beholding your father's face -- that it is not towards me as heretofore, and the God of my father hath been with me,

31:6and ye -- ye have known that with all my power I have served your father,

31:7and your father hath played upon me, and hath changed my hire ten times; and God hath not suffered him to do evil with me.

31:8`If he say thus: The speckled are thy hire, then bare all the flock speckled ones; and if he say thus: The ring-straked are thy hire, then bare all the flock ring-straked;

31:9and God taketh away the substance of your father, and doth give to me.

31:10`And it cometh to pass at the time of the flock conceiving, that I lift up mine eyes and see in a dream, and lo, the he-goats, which are going up on the flock, are ring-straked, speckled, and grisled;

31:11and the messenger of God saith unto me in the dream, Jacob, and I say, Here am I.

31:12`And He saith, Lift up, I pray thee, thine eyes, and see -- all the he-goats which are going up on the flock are ring-straked, speckled, and grisled, for I have seen all that Laban is doing to thee;

31:13I am the God of Bethel where thou hast anointed a standing pillar, where thou hast vowed a vow to me; now, arise, go out from this land, and turn back unto the land of thy birth.'

31:14And Rachel answereth -- Leah also -- and saith to him, `Have we yet a portion and inheritance in the house of our father?

31:15have we not been reckoned strangers to him? for he hath sold us, and he also utterly consumeth our money;

31:16for all the wealth which God hath taken away from our father, it is ours, and our children's; and now, all that God hath said unto thee -- do.'

31:17And Jacob riseth, and lifteth up his sons and his wives on the camels,

31:18and leadeth all his cattle, and all his substance which he hath acquired, the cattle of his getting, which he hath acquired in Padan-Aram, to go unto Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.

31:19And Laban hath gone to shear his flock, and Rachel stealeth the teraphim which her father hath;

31:20and Jacob deceiveth the heart of Laban the Aramaean, because he hath not declared to him that he is fleeing;

31:21and he fleeth, he and all that he hath, and riseth, and passeth over the River, and setteth his face toward the mount of Gilead.

31:22And it is told to Laban on the third day that Jacob hath fled,

31:23and he taketh his brethren with him, and pursueth after him a journey of seven days, and overtaketh him in the mount of Gilead.

31:24And God cometh in unto Laban the Aramaean in a dream of the night, and saith to him, `Take heed to thyself lest thou speak with Jacob from good unto evil.'

31:25And Laban overtaketh Jacob; and Jacob hath fixed his tent in the mount; and Laban with his brethren have fixed theirs in the mount of Gilead.

31:26And Laban saith to Jacob, `What hast thou done that thou dost deceive my heart, and lead away my daughters as captives of the sword?

31:27Why hast thou hidden thyself to flee, and deceivest me, and hast not declared to me, and I send thee away with joy and with songs, with tabret and with harp,

31:28and hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? -- now thou hast acted foolishly in doing so;

31:29my hand is to God to do evil with you, but the God of your father yesternight hath spoken unto me, saying, Take heed to thyself from speaking with Jacob from good unto evil.

31:30`And now, thou hast certainly gone, because thou hast been very desirous for the house of thy father; why hast thou stolen my gods?'

31:31And Jacob answereth and saith to Laban, `Because I was afraid, for I said, Lest thou take violently away thy daughters from me;

31:32with whomsoever thou findest thy gods -- he doth not live; before our brethren discern for thyself what is with me, and take to thyself:' and Jacob hath not known that Rachel hath stolen them.

31:33And Laban goeth into the tent of Jacob, and into the tent of Leah, and into the tent of the two handmaidens, and hath not found; and he goeth out from the tent of Leah, and goeth into the tent of Rachel.

31:34And Rachel hath taken the teraphim, and putteth them in the furniture of the camel, and sitteth upon them; and Laban feeleth all the tent, and hath not found;

31:35and she saith unto her father, `Let it not be displeasing in the eyes of my lord that I am not able to rise at thy presence, for the way of women is on me;' and he searcheth, and hath not found the teraphim.

31:36And it is displeasing to Jacob, and he striveth with Laban; and Jacob answereth and saith to Laban, `What is my transgression? what my sin, that thou hast burned after me?

31:37for thou hast felt all my vessels: what hast thou found of all the vessels of thy house? set here before my brethren, and thy brethren, and they decide between us both.

31:38`These twenty years I am with thee: thy ewes and thy she-goats have not miscarried, and the rams of thy flock I have not eaten;

31:39the torn I have not brought in unto thee -- I, I repay it -- from my hand thou dost seek it; I have been deceived by day, and I have been deceived by night;

31:40I have been thus: in the day consumed me hath drought, and frost by night, and wander doth my sleep from mine eyes.

31:41`This is to me twenty years in thy house: I have served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock; and thou changest my hire ten times;

31:42unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been for me, surely now empty thou hadst sent me away; mine affliction and the labour of my hands hath God seen, and reproveth yesternight.'

31:43And Laban answereth and saith unto Jacob, `The daughters are my daughters, and the sons my sons, and the flock my flock, and all that thou art seeing is mine; and to my daughters -- what do I to these to-day, or to their sons whom they have born?

31:44and now, come, let us make a covenant, I and thou, and it hath been for a witness between me and thee.'

31:45And Jacob taketh a stone, and lifteth it up for a standing pillar;

31:46and Jacob saith to his brethren, `Gather stones,' and they take stones, and make a heap; and they eat there on the heap;

31:47and Laban calleth it Jegar-Sahadutha; and Jacob hath called it Galeed.

31:48And Laban saith, `This heap is witness between me and thee to-day;' therefore hath he called its name Galeed;

31:49Mizpah also, for he said, `Jehovah doth watch between me and thee, for we are hidden one from another;

31:50if thou afflict my daughters, or take wives beside my daughters -- there is no man with us -- see, God is witness between me and thee.'

31:51And Laban saith to Jacob, `Lo, this heap, and lo, the standing pillar which I have cast between me and thee;

31:52this heap is witness, and the standing pillar is witness, that I do not pass over this heap unto thee, and that thou dost not pass over this heap and this standing pillar unto me -- for evil;

31:53the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, doth judge between us -- the God of their father,' and Jacob sweareth by the Fear of his father Isaac.

31:54And Jacob sacrificeth a sacrifice in the mount, and calleth to his brethren to eat bread, and they eat bread, and lodge in the mount;

31:55and Laban riseth early in the morning, and kisseth his sons and his daughters, and blesseth them; and Laban goeth on, and turneth back to his place.

32:1And Jacob hath gone on his way, and messengers of God come upon him;

32:2and Jacob saith, when he hath seen them, `This is the camp of God;' and he calleth the name of that place `Two Camps.'

32:3And Jacob sendeth messengers before him unto Esau his brother, towards the land of Seir, the field of Edom,

32:4and commandeth them, saying, `Thus do ye say to my lord, to Esau: Thus said thy servant Jacob, With Laban I have sojourned, and I tarry until now;

32:5and I have ox, and ass, flock, and man-servant, and maid-servant, and I send to declare to my lord, to find grace in his eyes.'

32:6And the messengers turn back unto Jacob, saying, `We came in unto thy brother, unto Esau, and he also is coming to meet thee, and four hundred men with him;'

32:7and Jacob feareth exceedingly, and is distressed, and he divideth the people who are with him, and the flock, and the herd, and the camels, into two camps,

32:8and saith, `If Esau come in unto the one camp, and have smitten it -- then the camp which is left hath been for an escape.'

32:9And Jacob saith, `God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Jehovah who saith unto me, Turn back to thy land, and to thy kindred, and I do good with thee:

32:10I have been unworthy of all the kind acts, and of all the truth which Thou hast done with thy servant -- for, with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.

32:11`Deliver me, I pray Thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I am fearing him, less he come and have smitten me -- mother beside sons;

32:12and Thou -- Thou hast said, I certainly do good with thee, and have set thy seed as the sand of the sea, which is not numbered because of the multitude.'

32:13And he lodgeth there during that night, and taketh from that which is coming into his hand, a present for Esau his brother:

32:14she-goats two hundred, and he-goats twenty, ewes two hundred, and rams twenty,

32:15suckling camels and their young ones thirty, cows forty, and bullocks ten, she-asses twenty, and foals ten;

32:16and he giveth into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and saith unto his servants, `Pass over before me, and a space ye do put between drove and drove.'

32:17And he commandeth the first, saying, `When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and hath asked thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?

32:18then thou hast said, Thy servant Jacob's: it is a present sent to my lord, to Esau; and lo, he also is behind us.'

32:19And he commandeth also the second, also the third, also all who are going after the droves, saying, `According to this manner do ye speak unto Esau in your finding him,

32:20and ye have said also, Lo, thy servant Jacob is behind us;' for he said, `I pacify his face with the present which is going before me, and afterwards I see his face; it may be he lifteth up my face;'

32:21and the present passeth over before his face, and he hath lodged during that night in the camp.

32:22And he riseth in that night, and taketh his two wives, and his two maid-servants, and his eleven children, and passeth over the passage of Jabbok;

32:23and he taketh them, and causeth them to pass over the brook, and he causeth that which he hath to pass over.

32:24And Jacob is left alone, and one wrestleth with him till the ascending of the dawn;

32:25and he seeth that he is not able for him, and he cometh against the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob's thigh is disjointed in his wrestling with him;

32:26and he saith, `Send me away, for the dawn hath ascended:' and he saith, `I send thee not away, except thou hast blessed me.'

32:27And he saith unto him, `What is thy name?' and he saith, `Jacob.'

32:28And he saith, `Thy name is no more called Jacob, but Israel; for thou hast been a prince with God and with men, and dost prevail.'

32:29And Jacob asketh, and saith, `Declare, I pray thee, thy name;' and he saith, `Why is this, thou askest for My name?' and He blesseth him there.

32:30And Jacob calleth the name of the place Peniel: for `I have seen God face unto face, and my life is delivered;'

32:31and the sun riseth on him when he hath passed over Penuel, and he is halting on his thigh;

32:32therefore the sons of Israel do not eat the sinew which shrank, which is on the hollow of the thigh, unto this day, because He came against the hollow of Jacob's thigh, against the sinew which shrank.