Genesis 30

Genesis 30:1

Give me children, or else I die.

Grief and impatience will kill me, if I have not children from thy loins, as well as my sister Leah.

Genesis 30:3

Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.

Behold my maid Bilhah; go, retire thyself into her chamber, and lie with her; and I shall have children by her, which I shall bear upon my knees, and in my bosom, as my own.

Genesis 30:4

And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife.

Then she gave him Bilhah her maid, to converse with as a wife.

Genesis 30:14

And found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah.

And found mandrake apples in the field, which he had perceived his mother to esteem for their medicinable use, and brought them therefore to her.

Genesis 30:18

And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband.

Then said Leah, God hath repaid me my reward for the good office, which I did to my husband, in giving him my hand-maid for his concubine.

Genesis 30:22

And God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.

And God heard her prayers, and gave her power to conceive.

Genesis 30:40

And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks towards the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban.

And turned the faces of those sheep, which were in the flock of Laban, towards the party-coloured and black, which were of his flock, that the sight thereof might cause those colours in their conception.