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Genesis - ch 30 v 21 - 40
- and afterwards hath she born a daughter, and calleth her name Dinah.
- And God remembereth Rachel, and God hearkeneth unto her, and openeth her womb,
- and she conceiveth and beareth a son, and saith, `God hath gathered up my reproach;'
- and she calleth his name Joseph, saying, `Jehovah is adding to me another son.'
- And it cometh to pass, when Rachel hath borne Joseph, that Jacob saith unto Laban, `Send me away, and I go unto my place, and to my land;
- give up my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and I go; for thou -- thou hast known my service which I have served thee.'
- And Laban saith unto him, `If, I pray thee, I have found grace in thine eyes -- I have observed diligently that Jehovah doth bless me for thy sake.'
- He saith also, `Define thy hire to me, and I give.'
- And he saith unto him, `Thou -- thou hast known that which I have served thee `in', and that which thy substance was with me;
- for `it is' little which thou hast had at my appearance, and it breaketh forth into a multitude, and Jehovah blesseth thee at my coming; and now, when do I make, I also, for mine own house?'
- And he saith, `What do I give to thee?' And Jacob saith, `Thou dost not give me anything; if thou do for me this thing, I turn back; I have delight; thy flock I watch;
- I pass through all thy flock to-day to turn aside from thence every sheep speckled and spotted, and every brown sheep among the lambs, and speckled and spotted among the goats -- and it hath been my hire;
- and my righteousness hath answered for me in the day to come, when it cometh in for my hire before thy face; -- every one which is not speckled and spotted among `my' goats, and brown among `my' lambs -- it is stolen with me.'
- And Laban saith, `Lo, O that it were according to thy word;'
- and he turneth aside during that day the ring-straked and the spotted he-goats, and all the speckled and the spotted she-goats, every one that `hath' white in it, and every brown one among the lambs, and he giveth into the hand of his sons,
- and setteth a journey of three days between himself and Jacob; and Jacob is feeding the rest of the flock of Laban.
- And Jacob taketh to himself a rod of fresh poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut, and doth peel in them white peelings, making bare the white that `is' on the rods,
- and setteth up the rods which he hath peeled in the gutters in the watering troughs (when the flock cometh in to drink), over-against the flock, that they may conceive in their coming in to drink;
- and the flocks conceive at the rods, and the flock beareth ring-straked, speckled, and spotted ones.
- And the lambs hath Jacob parted, and he putteth the face of the flock towards the ring-straked, also all the brown in the flock of Laban, and he setteth his own droves by themselves, and hath not set them near Laban's flock.
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