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Genesis - ch 30 v 21 - 40
- After whom she bore a daughter, named Diana.
- The Lord also remembering Rachel, heard her, and opened her womb.
- And she conceived, and bore a son, saying: God hath taken my reproach.
- And she called his name Joseph, saying: The Lord give me also another son.
- And when Joseph was born, Jacob said to his father in law: Send me away that I may return into my country, and to my land.
- Give me my wives, and my children, for whom I have served thee, that I may depart: thou knowest the service that I have rendered thee.
- Laban said to him: Let me find favour in thy sight: I have learned by experience, that God hath blessed me for thy sake.
- Appoint thy wages which I shall give thee.
- But he answered: Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how great thy possession hath been in my hands.
- Thou hadst but little before I came to thee, and now thou art become rich: and the Lord hath blessed thee at my coming. It is reasonable therefore that I should now provide also for my own house.
- And Laban said: What shall I give thee? But he said: I require nothing: but if thou wilt do what I demand, I will feed, and keep thy sheep again.
- Go round through all thy flocks, and separate all the sheep of divers colours, and speckled: and all that is brown and spotted, and of divers colours, as well among the sheep, as among the goats, shall be my wages.
- And my justice shall answer for me to morrow before thee when the time of the bargain shall come: and all that is not of divers colours, and spotted, and brown, as well among the sheep as among the goats, shall accuse me of theft.
- And Laban said: I like well what thou demandest.
- And he separated the name day the she goats, and the sheep, and the he goats, and the rams of divers colours, and spotted: and all the flock of one colour, that is, of white and black fleece, he delivered into the hands of his sons.
- And he set the space of three days' journey betwixt himself and his son in law, who fed the rest of his flock.
- And Jacob took green robs of poplar, and of almond, and of place trees, and pilled them in part: so when the bark was taken off, in the parts that were pilled, there appeared whiteness: but the parts that were whole remained green: and by this means the colour was divers.
- And he put them in the troughs, where the water was poured out: that when the flocks should come to drink, they might have the rods before their eyes, and in the sight of them might conceive.
- And it came to pass that in the very heat of coition, the sheep beheld the rods, and brought forth spotted, and of divers colours, and speckled.
- And Jacob separated the flock, and put the rods in the troughs before the eyes of the rams: and all the white and the black were Laban's: and the rest were Jacob's, when the flocks were separated one from the other.
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