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So she said, "Here is my maid Bilhah; go in to her, and she will bear a child on my knees, that I also may have children by her."

Then Rachel said, "With great wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and indeed I have prevailed." So she called his name Naphtali. [fn]

Then Leah said, "A troop comes!" [fn] So she called his name Gad. [fn]

Then Leah said, "I am happy, for the daughters will call me blessed." So she called his name Asher. [fn]

Leah said, "God has given me my wages, because I have given my maid to my husband." So she called his name Issachar. [fn]

And Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good endowment; now my husband will dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons." So she called his name Zebulun. [fn]

So she called his name Joseph, [fn] and said, "The Lord shall add to me another son."

So Jacob said to him, "You know how I have served you and how your livestock has been with me.

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

So my righteousness will answer for me in time to come, when the subject of my wages comes before you: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the lambs, will be considered stolen, if it is with me."

So he removed that day the male goats that were speckled and spotted, all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had some white in it, and all the brown ones among the lambs, and gave them into the hand of his sons.

And the rods which he had peeled, he set before the flocks in the gutters, in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink, so that they should conceive when they came to drink.

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

But when the flocks were feeble, he did not put them in; so the feebler were Laban's and the stronger Jacob's.

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

So God has taken away the livestock of your father and given them to me.

So he fled with all that he had. He arose and crossed the river, and headed toward the mountains of Gilead.

So Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountains, and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mountains of Gilead.

And you did not allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters. Now you have done foolishly in so doing.

Then Jacob was angry and rebuked Laban, and Jacob answered and said to Laban: "What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have so hotly pursued me?