Genesis 30
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Genesis 30:17-30

17God listened and answered [the prayer of] Leah, and she conceived and gave birth to a fifth son for Jacob.

18Then Leah said, “God has given me my reward because I have given my maid to my husband.” So she named him Issachar.

19Leah conceived again and gave birth to a sixth son for Jacob.

20Then Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good [marriage] gift [for my husband]; now he will live with me [regarding me with honor as his wife], because I have given birth to six sons.” So she named him Zebulun.

21Afterward she gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah.

22Then God remembered [the prayers of] Rachel, and God thought of her and opened her womb [so that she would conceive].

23So she conceived and gave birth to a son; and she said, “God has taken away my disgrace and humiliation.”

24She named him Joseph (may He add) and said, “May the Lord add to me another son.”

25Now when Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go back to my own place and to my own country.

26Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know the work which I have done for you.”

27But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your sight, stay with me; for I have learned [from the omens in divination and by experience] that the Lord has blessed me because of you.”

28He said, “Name your wages, and I will give it [to you].”

29Jacob answered him, “You know how I have served you and how your possessions, your cattle and sheep and goats, have fared with me.

30For you had little before I came and it has increased and multiplied abundantly, and the Lord has favored you with blessings wherever I turned. But now, when shall I provide for my own household?”

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