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Genesis 30:21-32 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

21. And afterward she gave birth to a daughter. And she called her name Dinah.

22. Then God remembered Rachel and listened to her, and God opened her womb.

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

24. And she called his name Joseph, saying, “Yahweh has added to me another son.”

25. And it happened that as soon as Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away that I may go to my place and my land.

26. Give me my wives and my children for which I have served you, and let me go. For you yourself know my service that I have rendered to you.”

27. But Laban said to him, “Please, if I have found favor in your eyes, I have learned by divination that Yahweh has blessed me because of you.”

28. And he said, “Name your wage to me and I will give it.”

29. Then he said to him, “You yourself know how I have served you and how your livestock have been with me.

30. For you had little before me, and it has increased abundantly. And Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. So then, when shall I provide for my own family also?”

31. And he said, “What shall I give you?” And Jacob said, “Do not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flocks and keep them.

32. Let me pass through all your flocks today, removing all the speckled and spotted sheep from them, along with every dark-colored sheep among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. That shall be my wages.

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