1When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else I will die."

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

2Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in God's place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"

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

3She said, "Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her."

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

4She gave him Bilhah her handmaid as wife, and Jacob went in to her.

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

5Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.

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6Rachel said, "God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son." Therefore called she his name Dan.

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

7Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.

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8Rachel said, "With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed." She named him Naphtali.

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

9When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

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

10Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, bore Jacob a son.

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11Leah said, "How fortunate!" She named him Gad.

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

12Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, bore Jacob a second son.

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13Leah said, "Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy." She named him Asher.

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

14Reuben 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, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."

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

15She said to her, "Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes, also?" Rachel said, "Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son's mandrakes."

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

16Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, "You must come in to me; for I have surely hired you with my son's mandrakes." He lay with her that night.

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17God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob 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

18Leah said, "God has given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband." She named him Issachar.

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

19Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.

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20Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons." She named him Zebulun.

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

21Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.

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

22God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

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

23She conceived, bore a son, and said, "God has taken away my reproach."

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

24She named him Joseph, saying, "May the Lord add another son to me."

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

25It happened, 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.

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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 you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you."

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

27Laban said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that the Lord has blessed me for your sake."

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

28He said, "Appoint me your wages, and I will give it."

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

29He said to him, "You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.

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

30For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. The Lord has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?"

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

31He said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.

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

32I will pass through all your 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. This will be my hire.

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

33So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that might be with me, will be counted stolen."

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

34Laban said, "Behold, I desire it to be according to your word."

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

35That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the female 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 his sons.

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Genesis 31:9, Genesis 31:9

36He set three days' journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.

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37Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.

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

38He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink.

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39The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.

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

40Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and did not put them into Laban's flock.

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41It happened, 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;

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42but when the flock were feeble, he did not put them in. So the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.

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43The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

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