Genesis 30
Genesis 30:1-24 The Children of Jacob (contd…)
Genesis 30:25-43 Jacob’s Agreement with Laban
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Genesis 30:1-24 The Children of Jacob (contd…)
RACHEL TO JACOB
1 Now when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister, and said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I die!” (Genesis 30:1)
JACOB TO RACHEL
2 And Jacob’s anger was aroused against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?” (Genesis 30:2)
RACHEL GIVES BILHAH TO JACOB
3 So she said, “Here is my maid Bilhah; go in to her, and she will bear a child on my knees, that I also may have children by her.” 4 Then she gave him Bilhah her maid as wife, and Jacob went in to her. (Genesis 30:3-4)
DAN – “GOD HAS JUDGED MY CASE AND HE HAS ALSO HEARD MY VOICE AND GIVEN ME A SON”
5 And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son. 6 Then Rachel said, “God has judged my case; and He has also heard my voice and given me a son.” Therefore she called his name Dan. (Genesis 30:5-6)
NAPHTALI – “WITH GREAT WRESTLINGS I HAVE WRESTLED WITH MY SISTER, AND INDEED I HAVE PREVAILED”
7 And Rachel’s maid Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son. 8 Then Rachel said, “With great wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and indeed I have prevailed.” So she called his name Naphtali. (Genesis 30:7-8)
LEAH GIVES ZILPAH TO JACOB
9 When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, she took Zilpah her maid and gave her to Jacob as wife. (Genesis 30:9)
GAD – “A TROOP COMES”
10 And Leah’s maid Zilpah bore Jacob a son. 11 Then Leah said, “A troop comes!” So she called his name Gad. (Genesis 30:10-11)
ASHER – “I AM HAPPY, FOR THE DAUGHTERS WILL CALL ME BLESSED”
12 And Leah’s maid Zilpah bore Jacob a second son. 13 Then Leah said, “I am happy, for the daughters will call me blessed.” So she called his name Asher. (Genesis 30:12-13)
RACHEL TO LEAH
14 Now Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.” (Genesis 30:14)
LEAH TO RACHEL
15 But she said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes also?” (Genesis 30:15)
RACHEL TO LEAH
And Rachel said, “Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son’s mandrakes.” (Genesis 30:15)
LEAH TO JACOB
16 When Jacob came out of the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come in to me, for I have surely hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” And he lay with her that night. (Genesis 30:16)
ISSACHAR – “GOD HAS GIVEN ME MY WAGES, BECAUSE I HAVE GIVEN MY MAID TO MY HUSBAND”
17 And God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son. 18 Leah said, “God has given me my wages, because I have given my maid to my husband.” So she called his name Issachar. (Genesis 30:17-18)
ZEBULUN – “GOD HAS ENDOWED ME WITH A GOOD ENDOWMENT; NOW MY HUSBAND WILL DWELL WITH ME, BECAUSE I HAVE BORNE HIM SIX SONS”
19 Then Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a sixth son. 20 And Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good endowment; now my husband will dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons.” So she called his name Zebulun. (Genesis 30:19-20)
DINAH – DAUGHTER OF LEAH
21 Afterward she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah. (Genesis 30:21)
JOSEPH – “GOD HAS TAKEN AWAY MY REPROACH”
22 Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb. 23 And she conceived and bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach.” 24 So she called his name Joseph, and said, “The LORD shall add to me another son.” (Genesis 30:22-24)
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Genesis 30:25-43 Jacob’s Agreement with Laban
JACOB TO LABAN
25 And it came to pass, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place and to my country. 26 Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service which I have done for you.” (Genesis 30:25-26)
LABAN TO JACOB
27 And Laban said to him, “Please stay, if I have found favor in your eyes, for I have learned by experience that the LORD has blessed me for your sake.” 28 Then he said, “Name me your wages, and I will give it.” (Genesis 30:27-28)
JACOB TO LABAN
29 So Jacob said to him, “You know how I have served you and how your livestock has been with me. 30 For what you had before I came was little, and it has increased to a great amount; the LORD has blessed you since my coming. And now, when shall I also provide for my own house?” (Genesis 30:29-30)
LABAN TO JACOB
31 So he said, “What shall I give you?” (Genesis 30:31)
JACOB TO LABAN
And Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep your flocks: 32 Let me pass through all your flock today, removing from there all the speckled and spotted sheep, and all the brown ones among the lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and these shall be my wages. 33 So my righteousness will answer for me in time to come, when the subject of my wages comes before you: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the lambs, will be considered stolen, if it is with me.” (Genesis 30:31-33)
LABAN TO JACOB
34 And Laban said, “Oh, that it were according to your word!” 35 So he removed that day the male goats that were speckled and spotted, all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had some white in it, and all the brown ones among the lambs, and gave them into the hand of his sons. 36 Then he put three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks. (Genesis 30:34-36)
JACOB BECAME EXCEEDINGLY PROSPEROUS
37 Now Jacob took for himself rods of green poplar and of the almond and chestnut trees, peeled white strips in them, and exposed the white which was in the rods. 38 And the rods which he had peeled, he set before the flocks in the gutters, in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink, so that they should conceive when they came to drink. 39 So the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted. 40 Then Jacob separated the lambs, and made the flocks face toward the streaked and all the brown in the flock of Laban; but he put his own flocks by themselves and did not put them with Laban’s flock.
41 And it came to pass, whenever the stronger livestock conceived, that Jacob placed the rods before the eyes of the livestock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods. 42 But when the flocks were feeble, he did not put them in; so the feebler were Laban’s and the stronger Jacob’s. 43 Thus the man became exceedingly prosperous, and had large flocks, female and male servants, and camels and donkeys. (Genesis 30:37-43)
January 12, 2009 at 7:05 am
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January 13, 2009 at 8:54 am
Jacob loved Rachel, nobody could take place of her in Jacob’s heart. Women always mislead their husband. Rachel was jealous about her sister Leah as he couldnt bear a child for her husband Jacob.Leah bore six sons and one daughter, then God blessed Rachel with a son named Josef. God takes His own time and bless His people accordingly. Eve misled her husband, Sara also did the same and then Rachel misled her husband to sleep with her maids. But at last God heard Rachel and she said God has taken away her disgrace. We have to pray to God to have have grace and mercy upon us when we ask for our desires.