Genesis 30 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ And when Raḥ

² And Yaʽ

³ And she said, “See, my female servant Bilhah; go in to her, and let her bear for me, and let me be built up from her as well.”

⁴ So she gave him Bilhah her female servant as wife, and Yaʽ

⁵ And Bilhah conceived and bore Yaʽ

⁶ And Raḥ

⁷ And Raḥ

⁸ And Raḥ

⁹ And Lĕ

¹⁰ And Lĕ

¹¹ And Lĕ

¹² And Lĕ

¹³ And Lĕ

¹⁴ And Re’uḇ

¹⁵ But she said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s love-apples too?” And Raḥ

¹⁶ And when Yaʽ

¹⁷ And Elohim listened to Lĕ

¹⁸ And Lĕ

¹⁹ And Lĕ

²⁰ And Lĕ

²¹ And afterward she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah.

²² And Elohim remembered Raḥ

²³ And she conceived, and bore a son, and said, “Elohim has taken away my reproach.”

²⁴ So she called his name Yosĕ

²⁵ And it came to be, when Raḥ

²⁶ “Give my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go, for you yourself know my service which I have done for you.”

²⁷ And Laḇ

²⁸ And he said, “Name me your wages, and I give it.”

²⁹ So he said to him, “You know how I have served you and how your livestock has been with me.

³⁰ “For the little you had before I came has increased greatly, and יהוה  has blessed you since my coming. But now, when am I to provide for my own house too?”

³¹ And he said, “What do I give you?” And Yaʽ

³² “Let me pass through all your flock today, removing from there all the speckled and spotted sheep, and all the black ones among the lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. And these shall be my wages.

³³ “And my righteousness shall answer for me in time to come, when you come concerning my wages: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the lambs, it is stolen if it is with me.”

³⁴ And Laḇ

³⁵ And on that day he set aside the male goats that were speckled and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had some white in it, and all the black ones among the lambs, and gave them into the hand of his sons.

³⁶ And he put three days’ journey between himself and Yaʽ

³⁷ And Yaʽ

³⁸ And he set the rods which he had peeled before the flocks in the gutters, in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink, and they conceived when they came to drink.

³⁹ So the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.

⁴⁰ And Yaʽ

⁴¹ And it came to be, whenever the strong ones of the flock conceived, that Yaʽ

⁴² But when the flocks were weak, he did not put them in, so the weak ones were Laḇ

⁴³ Thus the man increased very much, and had many flocks, and female and male servants, and camels and donkeys.