# Genesis 30

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/30

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. Rachel saw that she had not borne Jacob any children, envied her sister, and said to Jacob, "Give me children, or I will die."
2. Jacob's anger burned against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in God's place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"
3. She said, "Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Go in to her, and let her bear on my knees, and I too will obtain children by her."
4. She gave him her maidservant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.
5. Bilhah conceived and bore a son to Jacob.
6. Rachel said, "God has judged me, and also heard my voice, and given me a son." Therefore she called his name Dan.
7. Bilhah, Rachel's maidservant, conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.
8. Rachel said, "With God's wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and I have also prevailed." She called his name Naphtali.
9. When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing, she took Zilpah her maidservant and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
10. Zilpah, Leah's servant girl, bore Jacob a son.
11. Leah said, "Fortune comes, fortune!" and she called his name Gad.
12. Zilpah, Leah's bondwoman, bore Jacob a second son.
13. Leah said, "I am happy, because the daughters will call me happy." She named him Asher.
14. During the wheat harvest, Reuben went out and found mandrakes in the field, bringing them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."
15. She said to her, "Is it too little that you have taken my husband, that you would take also my son's mandrakes?" Rachel said, "Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son's mandrakes."
16. Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him and said, "Come to me, for I have surely hired you with my son's mandrakes." He lay with her that night.
17. God heard Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.
18. Leah said, "God has given me my reward because I gave my maidservant to my husband," and she named him Issachar.
19. Leah conceived again and gave birth to Jacob's sixth son.
20. Leah said, "God has granted me an excellent gift; now my husband will reside with me, because I have borne six sons to him." She called his name Zebulun.
21. Afterward she gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah.
22. God remembered Rachel, and God heard her, and opened her womb.
23. She conceived and gave birth to a son, and said, "God has removed my reproach."
24. She called his name Joseph, saying, "May Yahweh add another son to me."
25. After Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my own place and to my land."
26. Give me my wives and my children, for whom I served you, and let me go; for you know my service by which I served you.
27. Laban said to him, "Please, if I have found favor in your eyes, stay, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me because of you."
28. He said, "Name your wages with me, and I will give it."
29. He said to him, "You know how I have served you, and how your livestock has been with me."
30. For you had little before I came, and it burst forth into abundance, and Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when shall I provide for my own house also?
31. He said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything. If you do this thing for me, I will return to pasturing your flock and guarding it."
32. Let me pass through all your flock today; remove from there every speckled and spotted sheep, every brown sheep among the lambs, and every spotted and speckled goat, and that will be my wages.
33. My righteousness will testify for me tomorrow, when you come regarding my wages before you: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, will be considered stolen if it is with me.
34. Laban said, "Behold, may it be according to your word."
35. That day he removed the streaked and spotted male goats and all the speckled and spotted she-goats—every one that had white in it—along with all the brown ones among the sheep, and put them into the hands of his sons.
36. He set a three days' journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob pastured the rest of Laban's flocks.
37. Jacob took fresh poplar rods, hazel, and chestnut for himself, and peeled white streaks in them, laying bare the white that was on the rods.
38. He placed the rods he had peeled in the gutters of the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink, opposite the flocks, and they conceived when they came to drink.
39. The flocks came into heat before the rods, and they gave birth to ring-straked, speckled, and spotted lambs.
40. Jacob separated the lambs and turned the flocks toward the streaked and every brown one in Laban's flock, setting his own droves apart and not putting them with Laban's flock.
41. Whenever the stronger ones of the flock came into heat, Jacob placed the rods before their eyes in the troughs, so they would conceive among the rods.
42. But when the flock was weak, he did not put them there; so the weak ones were Laban's, and the strong ones Jacob's.
43. The man prospered abundantly and possessed vast flocks, maidservants, menservants, camels, and donkeys.

## Nearby chapters

[Genesis 29](https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/29.md)
[Genesis 31](https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/31.md)

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