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                                     Genesis


                                   Chapter 29


  1. Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of
     the people of the east.

  2. And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo,
     there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of
     that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was
     upon the well's mouth.

  3. And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled
     the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and
     put the stone again upon the well's mouth in his place.

  4. And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And
     they said, Of Haran are we.

  5. And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? And
     they said, We know him.

  6. And he said unto them, Is he well? And they said, He is
     well: and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the
     sheep.

  7. And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that
     the cattle should be gathered together: water ye the sheep,
     and go and feed them.

  8. And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered
     together, and till they roll the stone from the well's
     mouth; then we water the sheep.

  9. And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her
     father's sheep; for she kept them.

 10. And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of
     Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his
     mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone
     from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his
     mother's brother.

 11. And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.

 12. And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and
     that he was Rebekah's son: and she ran and told her father.

 13. And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob
     his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him,
     and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told
     Laban all these things.

 14. And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh.
     And he abode with him the space of a month.

 15. And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother,
     shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what
     shall thy wages be?

 16. And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah,
     and the name of the younger was Rachel.

 17. Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well
     favoured.

 18. And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven
     years for Rachel thy younger daughter.

 19. And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than
     that I should give her to another man: abide with me.

 20. And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed
     unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.

 21. And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are
     fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.

 22. And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and
     made a feast.

 23. And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his
     daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.

 24. And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for an
     handmaid.

 25. And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was
     Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto
     me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then
     hast thou beguiled me?

 26. And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to
     give the younger before the firstborn.

 27. Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the
     service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other
     years.

 28. And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him
     Rachel his daughter to wife also.

 29. And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to
     be her maid.

 30. And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel
     more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

 31. And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her
     womb: but Rachel was barren.

 32. And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name
     Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my
     affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.

 33. And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because
     the LORD hath heard I was hated, he hath therefore given me
     this son also: and she called his name Simeon.

 34. And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this
     time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born
     him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.

 35. And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now
     will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name Judah;
     and left bearing.


                                   Chapter 30


  1. And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel
     envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or
     else I die.

  2. And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said,
     Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit
     of the womb?

  3. And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she
     shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by
     her.

  4. And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went
     in unto her.

  5. And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.

  6. And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my
     voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his
     name Dan.

  7. And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a
     second son.

  8. And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with
     my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name
     Naphtali.

  9. When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her
     maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.

 10. And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son.

 11. And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.

 12. And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son.

 13. And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me
     blessed: and she called his name Asher.

 14. And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found
     mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother
     Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy
     son's mandrakes.

 15. And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast
     taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's
     mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with
     thee to night for thy son's mandrakes.

 16. And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah
     went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me;
     for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he
     lay with her that night.

 17. And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare
     Jacob the fifth son.

 18. And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have
     given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name
     Issachar.

 19. And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.

 20. And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry; now
     will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six
     sons: and she called his name Zebulun.

 21. And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name
     Dinah.

 22. And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and
     opened her womb.

 23. And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken
     away my reproach:

 24. And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add
     to me another son.

 25. And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob
     said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own
     place, and to my country.

 26. Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served
     thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I
     have done thee.

 27. And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour
     in thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that
     the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake.

 28. And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.

 29. And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee,
     and how thy cattle was with me.

 30. For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is
     now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed
     thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine
     own house also?

 31. And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou
     shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for
     me, I will again feed and keep thy flock.

 32. I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from
     thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the
     brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled
     among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.

 33. So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come,
     when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one
     that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown
     among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.

 34. And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy
     word.

 35. And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked
     and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and
     spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all
     the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of
     his sons.

 36. And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob:
     and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.

 37. And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel
     and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made
     the white appear which was in the rods.

 38. And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in
     the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to
     drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.

 39. And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth
     cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.

 40. And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the
     flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the
     flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and
     put them not unto Laban's cattle.

 41. And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did
     conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the
     cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the
     rods.

 42. But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the
     feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.

 43. And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and
     maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.


                                   Chapter 31


  1. 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 glory.

  2. And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it
     was not toward him as before.

  3. And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy
     fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.

  4. And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto
     his flock,

  5. And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it
     is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath
     been with me.

  6. And ye know that with all my power I have served your
     father.

  7. And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten
     times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.

  8. If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all
     the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The
     ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle
     ringstraked.

  9. Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and
     given them to me.

 10. And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived,
     that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold,
     the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked,
     speckled, and grisled.

 11. And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying,
     Jacob: And I said, Here am I.

 12. And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams
     which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and
     grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.

 13. I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar,
     and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee
     out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.

 14. And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet
     any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?

 15. Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us,
     and hath quite devoured also our money.

 16. For all the riches which God hath taken from our father,
     that is ours, and our children's: now then, whatsoever God
     hath said unto thee, do.

 17. Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon
     camels;

 18. And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which
     he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had
     gotten in Padanaram, for to go to Isaac his father in the
     land of Canaan.

 19. And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the
     images that were her father's.

 20. And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that
     he told him not that he fled.

 21. So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed
     over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead.

 22. And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.

 23. And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him
     seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount
     Gilead.

 24. And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and
     said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either
     good or bad.

 25. Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in
     the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount
     of Gilead.

 26. And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast
     stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters,
     as captives taken with the sword?

 27. Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from
     me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away
     with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?

 28. And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters?
     thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.

 29. It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of
     your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou
     heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

 30. And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou
     sore longedst after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast
     thou stolen my gods?

 31. And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid:
     for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy
     daughters from me.

 32. With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live:
     before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and
     take it to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen
     them.

 33. And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and
     into the two maidservants' tents; but he found them not.
     Then went he out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's
     tent.

 34. Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel's
     furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the
     tent, but found them not.

 35. And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord
     that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women
     is upon me. And he searched but found not the images.

 36. And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob
     answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my
     sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?

 37. Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou
     found of all thy household stuff? set it here before my
     brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us
     both.

 38. This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy
     she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy
     flock have I not eaten.

 39. That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I
     bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it,
     whether stolen by day, or stolen by night.

 40. Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the
     frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.

 41. Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee
     fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy
     cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.

 42. Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the
     fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me
     away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour
     of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.

 43. And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are
     my daughters, and these children are my children, and these
     cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and
     what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto
     their children which they have born?

 44. Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou;
     and let it be for a witness between me and thee.

 45. And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.

 46. And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they
     took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon
     the heap.

 47. And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it
     Galeed.

 48. And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee
     this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;

 49. And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee,
     when we are absent one from another.

 50. If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take
     other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God
     is witness betwixt me and thee.

 51. And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this
     pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee:

 52. This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I
     will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt
     not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.

 53. The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their
     father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his
     father Isaac.

 54. Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his
     brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried
     all night in the mount.

 55. And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons
     and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and
     returned unto his place.