These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Genesis 30
Tanakh 43 verses
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And when saw that she bore no children, envied her sister; and she said unto : ‘Give me children, or else I die.’
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Genesis 29:31 Genesis 37:11 Job 3:1-3 2 Corinthians 7:10 Galatians 5:21 John 4:8 Job 3:11 1 Kings 19:4 Titus 3:3 1 Corinthians 3:3 Job 13:19 Genesis 35:16-19 James 4:5 James 3:14 Jeremiah 20:14-18 1 Samuel 1:4-8 Proverbs 14:30 Job 3:20-22 Ecclesiastes 4:4 Psalm 106:16 John 4:3 Job 5:2 Numbers 11:29 Numbers 11:15 - 2 And Jacob’s anger was kindled against ; and he said: ‘Am I in Elohim’s stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?’
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And she said: ‘Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; that she may bear upon my knees, and I also may be builded up through her.’
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And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife; and went in unto her.
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- 5 And Bilhah conceived, and bore a son.
- 6 And said: ‘ hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son.’ Therefore called she his .
- 7 And Bilhah Rachel’s handmaid conceived again, and bore a second son.
- 8 And said: ‘With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed.’ And she called his .
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When saw that she had left off bearing, she took Zilpah her handmaid, and gave her to to wife.
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- 10 And Zilpah Leah’s handmaid bore a son.
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And said: ‘Fortune is come!’ And she called his .
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- 12 And Zilpah Leah’s handmaid bore a second son.
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And said: ‘Happy am I! for the daughters will call me happy.’ And she called his .
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And went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother . Then said to : ‘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 away my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son’s mandrakes also?’ And said: ‘Therefore he shall lie with thee to-night for thy son’s mandrakes.’
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- 16 And came from the field in the evening, and went out to meet him, and said: ‘Thou must come in unto me; for I have surely hired thee with my son’s mandrakes.’ And he lay with her that night.
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And hearkened unto , and she conceived, and bore a fifth son.
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And said: ‘ hath given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband. And she called his .
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- 19 And conceived again, and bore a sixth son to .
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And said: ‘ hath endowed me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons.’ And she called his .
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And afterwards she bore a daughter, and called her .
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And remembered , and hearkened to her, and opened her womb.
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And she conceived, and bore a son, and said: ‘ hath taken away my reproach.’
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- 24 And she called his , saying: ‘The add to me another son.’
- 25 And it came to pass, when had borne , that 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 wherewith I have served thee.’
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And Laban said unto him: ‘If now I have found favour in thine eyes—I have observed the signs, and hath blessed me for thy sake.’
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Isaiah 61:9 Genesis 26:24 Ruth 2:13 Genesis 39:21-23 Genesis 12:3 Acts 7:10 Exodus 3:21 Genesis 30:30 Genesis 33:15 Genesis 39:2-5 Genesis 47:25 Genesis 18:3 Numbers 11:11 Nehemiah 1:11 Daniel 1:9 Psalm 1:3 Genesis 34:11 Isaiah 6:13 Numbers 11:15 1 Samuel 16:22 Isaiah 65:8 Nehemiah 2:5 1 Kings 11:19 -
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And he said: ‘Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.’
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- 29 And he said unto him: ‘Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle have fared with me.
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For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it hath increased abundantly; and hath blessed thee whithersoever I turned. And now when shall I provide for mine own house also?’
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And he said: ‘What shall I give thee?’ And said: ‘Thou shalt not give me aught; if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed thy flock and keep it.
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I will pass through all thy flock to-day, removing from thence every speckled and spotted one, and every dark one 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 witness against me hereafter, when thou shalt come to look over my hire that is before thee: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and dark among the sheep, that if found with me shall be counted stolen.’
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And Laban said: ‘Behold, would it might be according to thy .’
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And he removed that day the he-goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the dark ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
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- 36 And he set three days’ journey betwixt himself and . And fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.
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And took him rods of fresh poplar, and of the almond and of the plane-tree; and peeled white streaks in them, making the white appear which was in the rods.
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- 38 And he set the rods which he had peeled over against the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink; and they conceived when they came to drink.
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And the flocks conceived at the sight of the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.
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- 40 And separated the lambs—he also set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the dark in the flock of Laban—and put his own droves apart, and put them not unto Laban’s flock.
- 41 And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger of the flock did conceive, that laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods;
- 42 but when the flock 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 large flocks, and maid-servants and men-servants, and camels and asses.