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And Leah's slave Zilpah bore Jacob a son.

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

But she said to her, "Is it a small matter for you to take my husband? And would you take my son's mandrakes also?" So Rachel said, "Therefore he may sleep with you tonight in return for your son's mandrakes."

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

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

Then Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good gift; finally my husband will acknowledge me as his wife, because I have borne him six sons." So she named him Zebulun.

Afterward she gave birth to a daughter, and named her Dinah.

So she conceived and gave birth to a son, and said, "God has taken away my disgrace."

"For you had little before I came, and it has increased to a multitude, and the LORD has blessed you wherever I turned. But now, when shall I provide for my own household also?"

And he put a distance of three days' journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.

"And it came about at the time when the flock was breeding that I raised my eyes and saw in a dream—and behold—the male goats that were mating were striped, speckled, or mottled.

'I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a memorial stone, where you made a vow to Me; now arise, leave this land, and return to the land of your birth.'"

he took his kinsmen with him and pursued him a distance of seven days' journey, and he overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.

However, God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream of the night and said to him, "Be careful that you do not speak to Jacob either good or bad."

"So now come, let's make a covenant, you and I, and it shall be a witness between you and me."

Then Jacob took a stone and set it up as a memorial stone.

Jacob said to his relatives, "Gather stones." So they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there by the heap.

Laban said, "This heap is a witness between you and me this day." Therefore it was named Galeed,

"This heap is a witness, and the memorial stone is a witness, that I will not pass by this heap to you for harm, and you will not pass by this heap and this memorial stone to me, for harm.

Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain, and called his relatives to the meal; and they ate the meal and spent the night on the mountain.