And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife, and Jacob went in to her.

And Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.

And Rachel said, God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son. Therefore she called his name Dan.

And Bilhah Rachel's handmaid conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.

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

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

And Zilpah Leah's handmaid bore Jacob a son.

And Leah said, Fortunate! And she called his name Gad.

And Zilpah Leah's handmaid bore Jacob a second son.

And Leah said, Happy am I! For the daughters will call me happy. And she called his name Asher.

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

And she said to her, Is it a small matter that thou have taken away my husband? And would thou take away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lay with thee tonight for thy son's mandrakes.

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

And God hearkened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.

And Leah said, God has given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband. And she called his name Issachar.

And Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.

And Leah said, God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons. And she called his name Zebulun.

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

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

And she conceived, and bore a son, and said, God has taken away my reproach.

And she called his name Joseph, saying, LORD adds another son to me.

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

Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served thee, and let me go, for thou know my service with which I have served thee.

And Laban said to him, If now I have found favor in thine eyes, [tarry, for] I have learned by experience that LORD has blessed me for thy sake.

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

And he said to him, Thou know how I have served thee, and how thy cattle have fared with me.

For it was little which thou had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude, and LORD has blessed thee wherever I turned. And now when shall I provide for my own house also?

And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shall not give me anything. If thou will do this thing for me, I will again feed thy flock and keep it.

I will pass through all thy flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats, and [of such] shall be my hire.

So shall my righteousness answer for me after this, when thou shall come concerning my hire that is before thee. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that [is] with me, shall be con

And Laban said, Behold, O that it might be according to thy word.

And he removed that day the he-goats that were ringstreaked and spotted, and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of h

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

And Jacob took for him rods of fresh poplar, and of the almond and of the plane tree, and peeled white streaks in them, and made the white which was in the rods appear.

And he set the rods which he had peeled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. And they conceived when they came to drink.

And the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted.

And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstreaked and all the black in the flock of Laban. And he put his own herds apart, and did not put them near Laban's flock.

And it came to pass, whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods,

but when the flock were weak, he did not put them in. So the weaker were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.

And the man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, and maid-servants and men-servants, and camels and donkeys.

And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob has taken away all that was our father's, and he has gotten all this glory of that which was our father's.

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

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

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

and said to them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as beforetime, but the God of my father has been with me.

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

And your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God did not allow him to hurt me.

If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages, then all the flock bore speckled, and if he said thus, The ringstreaked shall be thy wages, then all the flock bore ringstreaked.

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

And it came to pass at the time that the flock conceive, that I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the he-goats which leaped upon the flock were ringstreaked, speckled, and grizzled.

And the agent of God said to me in the dream, Jacob. And I said, Here I am.

And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the he-goats which leap upon the flock are ringstreaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to thee.

I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointed a pillar, where thou vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get thee out from this land, and return to the land of thy nativity.

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

Are we not accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also quite devoured our money.

For all the riches which God has taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's. Now then, whatever God has said to thee, do.

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

And he carried away all his cattle, and all his substance which he had gathered, the cattle of his getting, which he had gathered in Paddan-aram, to go to Isaac his father to the land of Canaan.

Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father's.

And Jacob slipped away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he did not tell him that he fled.

So he fled with all that he had. And he rose up, and passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.

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

And he took his brothers with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey, and he overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.

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

And Laban came up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain. And Laban encamped with his brothers in the mountain of Gilead.

And Laban said to Jacob, What have thou done, that thou have slipped away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters as captives of the sword?

Why did thou flee secretly, and creep away from me, and did not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp,

and did not allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now thou have done foolishly.

And now, [though] thou have certainly gone, because thou have been very desirous for thy father's house, [yet] why have thou stolen my gods?

And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid, for I said, Lest thou should take thy daughters from me by force.

With whomever thou find thy gods, he shall not live. Before our brothers discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two maid-servants, but he did not find them. And he went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, and put them in the camel's saddle, and sat upon them. And Laban felt around all the tent, but did not find them.

And she said to her father, Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee, for the manner of women is upon me. And he searched, but did not find the teraphim.

And Jacob was angry, and chided with Laban. And Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? What is my sin that thou have hotly pursued after me?

Whereas thou have felt around all my stuff, what have thou found of all thy household stuff? Set it here before my brothers and thy brothers, that they may judge between us two.

These twenty years I have been with thee, thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and I have not eaten the rams of thy flocks.

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

These twenty years I have been in thy house. I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock. And thou have changed my wages ten times.

Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now thou would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked thee last night.

And Laban answered and said to Jacob, The daughters are my daughters, and the sons are my sons, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that thou see is mine. And what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their sons whom th

And now come, let us make a covenant, I and thou, and let it be for a witness between me and thee.

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

And Jacob said to his brothers, Gather stones, and they took stones, and made a heap. And they ate there by the heap.

And Laban called it Jegar-saha-dutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.

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

and Mizpah. For he said, May LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another,

if thou will afflict my daughters, and if thou will take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us, see, God is witness between me and thee.

And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold the pillar, which I have set between me and thee.

This heap is witness, and the pillar is witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shall not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.

The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us. And Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac.

And Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain, and called his brothers to eat bread. And they ate bread, and tarried all night on the mountain.

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

And Jacob went on his way, and the agents of God met him.

And Jacob said when he saw them, This is God's camp. And he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.

And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye say to my lord Esau, Thus says thy servant Jacob, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed until now.

And I have oxen, and donkeys, flocks, and men-servants, and maid-servants. And I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in thy sight.

And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and moreover he comes to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.

Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. And he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies.