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Genesis 30:20-32 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

20. And Lĕ’ah said, “Elohim has presented me with a good present. Now my husband is going to dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons.” So she called his name Zeḇulun.

21. And afterward she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah.

22. And Elohim remembered Raḥĕl, and Elohim listened to her and opened her womb.

23. And she conceived, and bore a son, and said, “Elohim has taken away my reproach.”

24. So she called his name Yosĕph, and said, “יהוה has added to me another son.”

25. And it came to be, when Raḥĕl had borne Yosĕph, that Ya‛aqoḇ said to Laḇan, “Send me on my way, to go to my own place and to my land.

26. “Give my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go, for you yourself know my service which I have done for you.”

27. And Laḇan said to him, “If I have found favour in your eyes, please stay, for I have diligently watched that יהוה has blessed me for your sake.”

28. And he said, “Name me your wages, and I give it.”

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

30. “For the little you had before I came has increased greatly, and יהוה has blessed you since my coming. But now, when am I to provide for my own house too?”

31. And he said, “What do I give you?” And Ya‛aqoḇ said, “Give me naught! If you do this for me, I shall again feed and guard your flocks:

32. “Let me pass through all your flock today, removing from there all the speckled and spotted sheep, and all the black ones among the lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. And these shall be my wages.

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