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by her.
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And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.
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And Bilhah
conceived, and bare Jacob a son.
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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.
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And Bilhah Rachel’s maid
conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son.
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And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I
wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.
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When Leah saw
that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
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And Zilpah Leah’s
maid bare Jacob a son.
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And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.
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And
Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a second son.
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And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will
call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob
the fifth son.
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And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to
my husband: and she called his name Issachar.
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And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the
sixth son.
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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.
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And afterwards
she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
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And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.
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And she
conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach:
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And she called his name
Joseph; and said, The L
ORD
shall add to me another son.
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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.
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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.
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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 L
ORD
hath blessed me for thy sake.
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And he said, Appoint me thy wages,
and I will give
it.
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And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy
cattle was with me.
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For
it was
little which thou hadst before I
came,
and it is
now
increased unto
a multitude; and the L
ORD
hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for
mine own house also?
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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:
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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.
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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
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