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Then she conceived again and gave birth to a son, and said, "Because the LORD has heard that I am unloved, He has therefore given me this son also." So she named him Simeon.

And she conceived again and gave birth to a son, and said, "Now this time my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons." Therefore he was named Levi.

Now when Rachel saw that she had not borne Jacob any children, she became jealous of her sister; and she said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else I am going to die."

Then Rachel said, "God has vindicated me, and has indeed heard my voice and has given me a son." Therefore she named him Dan.

Then Leah said, "Happy am I! For women will call me happy." So she named him Asher.

Now in the days of wheat harvest Reuben went and found mandrake fruits in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."

When Jacob came in from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, "You must have relations with me, for I have indeed hired you with my son's mandrakes." So he slept with her that night.

Then Leah said, "God has given me my reward, because I gave my slave to my husband." So she named him Issachar.

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.

And she named him Joseph, saying, "May the LORD give me another son."

Now it came about, when Rachel had given birth to Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, so that I may go to my own place and to my own country.

"Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you yourself know my service which I have rendered you."

But Laban said to him, "If it pleases you at all, stay with me; I have determined by divination that the LORD has blessed me on your account."

He continued, "Name me your wages, and I will give them."

But Jacob said to him, "You yourself know how I have served you and how your livestock have fared with me.

So he said, "What shall I give you?" And Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything. If you will do this one thing for me, I will again pasture and keep your flock:

let me pass through your entire flock today, removing from there every speckled or spotted sheep and every black sheep among the lambs, and the spotted or speckled among the goats; and those shall be my wages.

"So my honesty will answer for me later, when you come concerning my wages. Every one that is not speckled or spotted among the goats, or black among the lambs, if found with me, will be considered stolen."

and said to them, "I see your father's attitude, that it is not friendly toward me as it was before, but the God of my father has been with me.

"Yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times; however, God did not allow him to do me harm.