New American Standard Bible 1995

Genesis 30:22-34

22Then 1God remembered Rachel, and God gave heed to her and 2opened her womb. 23So she conceived and bore a son and said, “God has 3taken away my reproach.” 24She named him Joseph, saying, “4May the Lord 5give me another son.”

25Now it came about when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, “6Send me away, that I may go to my own place and to my own country. 26Give me my wives and my children 7for whom I have served you, and let me depart; for you yourself know my service which I have 8rendered you.” 27But Laban said to him, “If now 9it pleases you, stay with me; I have divined 10that the Lord has blessed me on your account.” 28He 11continued, “12Name me your wages, and I will give it.” 29But he said to him, “13You yourself know how I have served you and how your cattle have 14fared with me. 30For you had little before 15I came and it has 16increased to a multitude, and the Lord has blessed you 17wherever I turned. But now, when shall I provide for my own household also?” 31So 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: 32let me pass through your entire flock today, removing from there every 18speckled and spotted sheep and every black 19one among the lambs and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and such shall be my wages. 33So my 20honesty will answer for me later, when you come concerning my 21wages. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and black among the lambs, if found with me, will be considered stolen.” 34Laban said, “22Good, let it be according to your word.”

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Notes

1. Genesis 30:22 1 Sam 1:19, 20 ↩
2. Genesis 30:22 Gen 29:31 ↩
3. Genesis 30:23 Is 4:1; Luke 1:25 ↩
4. Genesis 30:24 Gen 35:17 ↩
5. Genesis 30:24 Lit add to me; Heb Joseph ↩
6. Genesis 30:25 Gen 24:54, 56 ↩
7. Genesis 30:26 Gen 29:18, 20, 27; Hos 12:12 ↩
8. Genesis 30:26 Lit served ↩
9. Genesis 30:27 Lit I have found favor in your eyes ↩
10. Genesis 30:27 Gen 26:24; 39:3, 5; Is 61:9 ↩
11. Genesis 30:28 Lit said ↩
12. Genesis 30:28 Gen 29:15; 31:7, 41 ↩
13. Genesis 30:29 Gen 31:6 ↩
14. Genesis 30:29 Lit been ↩
15. Genesis 30:30 Lit me ↩
16. Genesis 30:30 Lit broken forth ↩
17. Genesis 30:30 Lit at my foot ↩
18. Genesis 30:32 Gen 31:8 ↩
19. Genesis 30:32 Lit sheep ↩
20. Genesis 30:33 Lit righteousness ↩
21. Genesis 30:33 Lit wages which are before you ↩
22. Genesis 30:34 Lit Behold, would that it might be ↩

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