Verse 26
Genesis 30:26
World English Bible, British Edition
26
Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let
me go; for you know my service with which I have served you.”
Original Language Text
hebrew
תְּנָ֞/ה אֶת נָשַׁ֣/י וְ/אֶת יְלָדַ֗/י אֲשֶׁ֨ר עָבַ֧דְתִּי אֹֽתְ/ךָ֛ בָּ/הֵ֖ן וְ/אֵלֵ֑כָה כִּ֚י אַתָּ֣ה יָדַ֔עְתָּ אֶת עֲבֹדָתִ֖/י אֲשֶׁ֥ר עֲבַדְתִּֽי/ךָ
English Translation
"Send away my wives and my children whom I have served you with, for you know my service which I have done for you."
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Chapter 30 Context
1
When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister.
She said to Jacob, “Give...
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2
Jacob’s anger burnt against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God (Elohim)’s
place, who has withheld fro...
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3
She said, “Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may
bear on my knees, and I also may obtai...
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4
She gave him Bilhah her servant as wife, and Jacob went in to her.
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5
Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.
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6
Rachel said, “God (Elohim) has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has
given me a son.” Ther...
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7
Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.
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8
Rachel said, “I have wrestled with my sister with mighty wrestlings,
and have prevailed.” She named...
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9
When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah,
her servant, and gave her to Jacob as...
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10
Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a son.
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11
Leah said, “How fortunate!” She named him Gad.
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12
Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a second son.
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13
Leah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy.” She
named him Asher.
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14
Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes
in the field, and brought them to his...
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15
Leah said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken
away my husband? Would you take away my...
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16
Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out
to meet him, and said, “You must come in...
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17
God (Elohim) listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.
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18
Leah said, “God (Elohim) has given me my hire, because I gave my servant to
my husband.” She named h...
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19
Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.
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20
Leah said, “God (Elohim) has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will
live with me, because...
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21
Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.
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22
God (Elohim) remembered Rachel, and God (Elohim) listened to her, and opened her
womb.
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23
She conceived, bore a son, and said, “God (Elohim) has taken away my reproach.”
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24
She named him Joseph, saying, “May the LORD add another son to me.”
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25
When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me
away, that I may go to my own place, and...
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26
Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let
me go; for you know my service...
27
Laban said to him, “If now I have found favour in your eyes,
stay here, for I have divined that the...
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28
He said, “Appoint me your wages, and I will give it.”
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29
Jacob said to him, “You know how I have served you, and how
your livestock have fared with me.
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30
For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased
to a multitude. The LORD has ble...
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31
Laban said, “What shall I give you?”
Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do thi...
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32
I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every
speckled and spotted one, and ev...
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33
So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning
my hire that is before yo...
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34
Laban said, “Behold, let it be according to your word.”
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35
That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted,
and all the female goats that we...
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36
He set three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed
the rest of Laban’s flocks.
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37
Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, and plane
tree, peeled white streaks in them, an...
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38
He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the watering
troughs where the flocks cam...
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39
The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks produced streaked,
speckled, and spotted.
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40
Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks towards
the streaked and all the black in...
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41
Whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, Jacob laid the rods in
front of the eyes of the flock...
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42
but when the flock were feeble, he didn’t put them in. So the feebler
were Laban’s, and the stronger...
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43
The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants
and male servants, and camels a...
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