1And Rachel seeing herself without children, envied her sister, and said to her husband: Give me children, otherwise I shall die.

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Job 5:2, Job 5:2, Genesis 29:31, Genesis 29:31, Genesis 37:11

2And Jacob being angry with her, answered: Am I as God, who hath deprived thee of the fruit of thy womb?

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Genesis 16:2, Genesis 16:2, Genesis 50:19, Psalms 127:3, 1 Samuel 1:5

3But she said: I have here my servant Bala: go in unto her, that she may bear upon my knees, and I may have children by her.

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Genesis 50:23, Genesis 50:23, Job 3:12, Job 3:12, Genesis 16:2

4And she gave him Bala in marriage: who,

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Genesis 22:24, Genesis 16:3, Genesis 16:4, Genesis 35:22, Genesis 33:2

5When her husband had gone in unto her, conceived and bore a son.

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6And Rachel said: The Lord hath judged for me, and hath heard my voice, giving me a son; and therefore she called his name Dan.

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Psalms 43:1, Psalms 35:24, Lamentations 3:59, Psalms 43:1, Psalms 35:24

7And again Bala conceived, and bore another,

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8For whom Rachel said: God hath compared me with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called him Nephthali.

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Matthew 4:13, Genesis 49:21, Matthew 4:13, Genesis 49:21, Deuteronomy 33:23

9Lia perceiving that she had left of bearing, gave Zelpha, her handmaid, to her husband.

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Genesis 30:4, Genesis 30:4, Genesis 30:17, Genesis 16:3, Genesis 29:35

10And when she had conceived, and brought forth a son,

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11She said: Happily. And therefore called his name Gad.

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Genesis 49:19, Genesis 49:19, Deuteronomy 33:20, Deuteronomy 33:21, Isaiah 65:11

12Zelpha also bore another.

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13And Lia said: This is for my happiness: for women will call me blessed. Therefore she called him Aser.

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Luke 1:48, Luke 1:48, Song of Solomon 6:9, Genesis 49:20, Genesis 35:26

14And Ruben going out in the time of the wheat harvest into the field, found mandrakes: which he brought to his mother Lia. And Rachel said: Give me part of thy son's mandrakes.

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Song of Solomon 7:13, Song of Solomon 7:13, Genesis 25:30, Genesis 25:30

15She answered: Dost thou think it a small matter, that thou hast taken my husband from me, unless thou take also my son's mandrakes? Rachel said: He shall sleep with thee this night, for thy son's mandrakes.

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Numbers 16:13, Numbers 16:13, 1 Corinthians 4:3, Numbers 16:9, Numbers 16:10

16And when Jacob returned at even from the field, Lia went out to meet him, and said: Thou shalt come in unto me, because I have hired thee for my son's mandrakes. And he slept with her that night.

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17And God heard her prayers; and she conceived: and bore a fifth son:

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Luke 1:13, Genesis 30:22, 1 Samuel 1:20, 1 Samuel 1:26, 1 Samuel 1:27

18And said: God hath given me a reward, because I gave my handmaid to my husband. And she called his name Issachar.

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Genesis 49:14, Genesis 49:15, Genesis 35:23, Genesis 46:13, Deuteronomy 33:18

19And Lia conceived again, and bore the sixth son,

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20And said: God hath endowed me with a good dowry; this turn also my husband will be with me, because I have borne him six sons: and therefore she called his name Zabulon.

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Genesis 35:23, Matthew 4:13, Genesis 49:13, Genesis 35:23, Matthew 4:13

21After whom she bore a daughter, named Dina.

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Genesis 46:15, Genesis 34:1, Genesis 34:3, Genesis 34:26, Genesis 46:15

22The Lord also remembering Rachel, heard her, and opened her womb.

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Genesis 29:31, Genesis 29:31, Genesis 8:1, Genesis 8:1, Psalms 113:9

23And she conceived, and bore a son, saying: God hath taken away my reproach.

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Luke 1:25, Luke 1:25, Luke 1:27, Genesis 29:31, Luke 1:27

24And she called his name Joseph: saying: The Lord give me also another son.

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Genesis 49:22, Genesis 49:26, Genesis 35:24, Genesis 49:22, Genesis 49:26

25And 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.

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Genesis 24:54, Genesis 24:54, Genesis 24:56, Genesis 24:56, Genesis 31:55

26Give 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.

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Genesis 29:30, Hosea 12:12, Genesis 29:30, Hosea 12:12, Genesis 31:38

27Laban said to him: Let me find favour in thy sight: I have learned, by experience, that God hath blessed me for thy sake.

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Ruth 2:13, Acts 7:10, Isaiah 61:9, Ruth 2:13, Acts 7:10

28Appoint thy wages which I shall give thee.

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Genesis 29:15, Genesis 29:15, Genesis 29:19, Genesis 29:19

29But he answered: Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how great thy possession hath been in my hands.

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Genesis 31:6, Genesis 31:6, Genesis 31:38, Genesis 31:40, Genesis 31:38

30Thou 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.

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1 Timothy 5:8, 1 Timothy 5:8, 2 Corinthians 12:14, 2 Corinthians 12:14, Deuteronomy 11:10

31And 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.

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Psalms 118:8, 2 Samuel 21:4, 2 Samuel 21:6, Hebrews 13:5, Psalms 118:8

32Go 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.

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Genesis 31:8, Genesis 31:8, Genesis 31:10, Genesis 31:10, Genesis 30:35

33And my justice shall answer for me tomorrow 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.

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Exodus 13:14, Psalms 37:6, 2 Samuel 22:21, Genesis 31:37, Isaiah 59:12

34And Laban said: I like well what thou demandest.

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1 Corinthians 7:7, 1 Corinthians 14:5, Numbers 22:29, Galatians 5:12, 1 Corinthians 7:7

35And he separated the same 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.

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Genesis 31:9, Genesis 31:9

36And he set the space of three days journey betwixt himself and his son-in-law, who fed the rest of his flock.

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37And Jacob took green rods of poplar, and of almond, and of plane-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.

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Genesis 31:9, Genesis 31:13, Ezekiel 31:8, Genesis 31:9, Genesis 31:13

38And 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.

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39And 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.

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Genesis 31:42, Genesis 31:38, Genesis 31:40, Genesis 31:9, Genesis 31:12

40And 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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41So when the ewes went first to ram, Jacob put the rods in the troughs of water before the eyes of the rams, and of the ewes, that they might conceive while they were looking upon them.

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42But when the later coming was, and the last conceiving, he did not put them. And those that were lateward, became Laban's; and they of the first time, Jacob's.

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43And the man was enriched exceedingly, and he had many flocks, maid-servants and men-servants, camels and asses.

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Genesis 26:13, Genesis 26:14, Genesis 24:35, Genesis 30:30, Genesis 26:13