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38 Book of Genesis

13 And Lia said: This is for my happiness: for 26 Give me my wives, and my children, for
women will call me blessed. Therefore she called whom I have served thee, that I may depart:
him Aser. thou knowest the service that I have rendered
14 And Ruben going out in the time of the thee.
wheat harvest into the field, found mandrakes: 27 Laban said to him: Let me find favour in
which he brought to his mother Lia. And Rachel thy sight: I have learned, by experience, that
said: Give me part of thy son’s mandrakes. God hath blessed me for thy sake.
15 She answered: Dost thou think it a small 28 Appoint thy wages which I shall give thee.
matter, that thou hast taken my husband from 29 But he answered: Thou knowest how I have
me, unless thou take also my son’s mandrakes? served thee, and how great thy possession hath
Rachel said: He shall sleep with thee this night, been in my hands.
for thy son’s mandrakes. 30 Thou hadst but little before I came to thee,
16 And when Jacob returned at even from the and now thou art become rich: and the Lord
field, Lia went out to meet him, and said: Thou hath blessed thee at my coming. It is reasonable,
shalt come in unto me, because I have hired thee therefore, that I should now provide also for my
for my son’s mandrakes. And he slept with her own house.
that night. 31 And Laban said: What shall I give thee?
But he said: I require nothing; but if thou wilt
17 And God heard her prayers; and she con-
do what I demand, I will feed and keep thy sheep
ceived: and bore a fifth son:
again.
18 And said: God hath given me a reward,
32 Go round through all thy flocks, and sepa-
because I gave my handmaid to my husband.
rate all the sheep of divers colours, and speckled;
And she called his name Issachar.
and all that is brown and spotted, and of divers
19 And Lia conceived again, and bore the
colours, as well among the sheep as among the
sixth son,
goats, shall be my wages.
20 And said: God hath endowed me with a
33 And my justice shall answer for me tomor-
good dowry; this turn also my husband will be
row before thee, when the time of the bargain
with me, because I have borne him six sons: and
shall come; and all that is not of divers colours,
therefore she called his name Zabulon.
and spotted, and brown, as well among the sheep
21 After whom she bore a daughter, named as among the goats, shall accurse me of theft.
Dina.
34 And Laban said: I like well what thou de-
22 The Lord also remembering Rachel, heard mandest.
her, and opened her womb. 35 And he separated the same day the she
23 And she conceived, and bore a son, saying: goats, and the sheep, and the he goats, and the
God hath taken away my reproach. rams of divers colours, and spotted; and all the
24 And she called his name Joseph: saying: flock of one colour, that is, of white and black
The Lord give me also another son. fleece, he deliverdd into the hands of his sons.
25 And when Joseph was born, Jacob said to 36 And he set the space of three days journey
his father in law: Send me away, that I may betwixt himself and his son in law, who fed the
return into my country, and to my land. rest of his flock.