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Text -- Genesis 30:7-43 (NET)

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30:7 Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, became pregnant again and gave Jacob another son. 30:8 Then Rachel said, “I have fought a desperate struggle with my sister, but I have won.” So she named him Naphtali. 30:9 When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife. 30:10 Soon Leah’s servant Zilpah gave Jacob a son. 30:11 Leah said, “How fortunate!” So she named him Gad. 30:12 Then Leah’s servant Zilpah gave Jacob another son. 30:13 Leah said, “How happy I am, for women will call me happy!” So she named him Asher. 30:14 At the time of the wheat harvest Reuben went out and found some mandrake plants in a field and brought them to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, “Give me some of your son’s mandrakes.” 30:15 But Leah replied, “Wasn’t it enough that you’ve taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes too?” “All right,” Rachel said, “he may sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.” 30:16 When Jacob came in from the fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must sleep with me because I have paid for your services with my son’s mandrakes.” So he had marital relations with her that night. 30:17 God paid attention to Leah; she became pregnant and gave Jacob a son for the fifth time. 30:18 Then Leah said, “God has granted me a reward because I gave my servant to my husband as a wife.” So she named him Issachar. 30:19 Leah became pregnant again and gave Jacob a son for the sixth time. 30:20 Then Leah said, “God has given me a good gift. Now my husband will honor me because I have given him six sons.” So she named him Zebulun. 30:21 After that she gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah. 30:22 Then God took note of Rachel. He paid attention to her and enabled her to become pregnant. 30:23 She became pregnant and gave birth to a son. Then she said, “God has taken away my shame.” 30:24 She named him Joseph, saying, “May the Lord give me yet another son.”
The Flocks of Jacob
30:25 After Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so that I can go home to my own country. 30:26 Let me take my wives and my children whom I have acquired by working for you. Then I’ll depart, because you know how hard I’ve worked for you.” 30:27 But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your sight, please stay here, for I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me on account of you.” 30:28 He added, “Just name your wages– I’ll pay whatever you want.” 30:29 “You know how I have worked for you,” Jacob replied, “and how well your livestock have fared under my care. 30:30 Indeed, you had little before I arrived, but now your possessions have increased many times over. The Lord has blessed you wherever I worked. But now, how long must it be before I do something for my own family too?” 30:31 So Laban asked, “What should I give you?” “You don’t need to give me a thing,” Jacob replied, “but if you agree to this one condition, I will continue to care for your flocks and protect them: 30:32 Let me walk among all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, and the spotted or speckled goats. These animals will be my wages. 30:33 My integrity will testify for me later on. When you come to verify that I’ve taken only the wages we agreed on, if I have in my possession any goat that is not speckled or spotted or any sheep that is not dark-colored, it will be considered stolen.” 30:34 “Agreed!” said Laban, “It will be as you say.” 30:35 So that day Laban removed the male goats that were streaked or spotted, all the female goats that were speckled or spotted (all that had any white on them), and all the dark-colored lambs, and put them in the care of his sons. 30:36 Then he separated them from Jacob by a three-day journey, while Jacob was taking care of the rest of Laban’s flocks. 30:37 But Jacob took fresh-cut branches from poplar, almond, and plane trees. He made white streaks by peeling them, making the white inner wood in the branches visible. 30:38 Then he set up the peeled branches in all the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. He set up the branches in front of the flocks when they were in heat and came to drink. 30:39 When the sheep mated in front of the branches, they gave birth to young that were streaked or speckled or spotted. 30:40 Jacob removed these lambs, but he made the rest of the flock face the streaked and completely dark-colored animals in Laban’s flock. So he made separate flocks for himself and did not mix them with Laban’s flocks. 30:41 When the stronger females were in heat, Jacob would set up the branches in the troughs in front of the flock, so they would mate near the branches. 30:42 But if the animals were weaker, he did not set the branches there. So the weaker animals ended up belonging to Laban and the stronger animals to Jacob. 30:43 In this way Jacob became extremely prosperous. He owned large flocks, male and female servants, camels, and donkeys.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Asher a tribe of Israel that came from Asher; son of Jacob and Zilpah,the man; son of Jacob and Zilpah,a tribe of Israel or its land
 · Bilhah Rachel's maid; third wife of Jacob; mother of Dan and Naphtali,a town of Simeon and Judah inhabited by the clan of Shime-i
 · Dinah daughter of Jacob and Leah
 · Gad the tribe of Israel descended from Gad, the son of Jacob,the man; the son of Jacob and Zilpah,the tribe of Gad in Israel,a prophet and long time advisor to King David
 · Issachar the tribe of Israel that came from his Jacob's son Issachar,son of Jacob and Leah; founder of the tribe of Issachar,the tribe of Issachar in Israel,son of Obed-Edom
 · Jacob the second so of a pair of twins born to Isaac and Rebeccaa; ancestor of the 12 tribes of Israel,the nation of Israel,a person, male,son of Isaac; Israel the man and nation
 · Joseph the husband of Mary and foster-father of Jesus,a Jewish man from Arimathea in whose grave the body of Jesus was laid,two different men listed as ancestors of Jesus,a man nominated with Matthias to take the place of Judas Iscariot as apostle,a son of Jacob and Rachel; the father of Ephraim and Manasseh and ruler of Egypt,a brother of Jesus; a son of Mary,a man who was a companion of Paul,son of Jacob and Rachel; patriarch of the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh,a tribe, actually two tribes named after Joseph's sons, Ephraim and Manasseh,father of Igal, of Issachar, who helped spy out Canaan,son of Asaph the Levite; worship leader under Asaph and King David,a man who put away his heathen wife; an Israelite descended from Binnui,priest and head of the house of Shebaniah under High Priest Joiakim in the time of Nehemiah
 · Laban son of Bethuel; brother of Rebecca; father of Leah and Rachel; uncle and father-in-law of Jacob,a town in Moab
 · Leah daughter of Laban; wife of Jacob; mother of Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun and Dinah
 · Naphtali region/territority and the tribe of Israel,the son of Jacob and Bilhah,the tribe of people descended from Naphtali,the territory of the people of Naphtali
 · Rachel a daughter of Laban; wife of Jacob; mother of Joseph and Benjamin,Jacob's favorite wife
 · Reuben the tribe of Reuben
 · Zebulun the tribe of Israel that came from Zebulun whose territory was in Galilee,the man; son of Jacob and Leah,the tribe of Zebulun,the territory of the tribe of Zebulun
 · Zilpah Leah's maid


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Jacob | Concubine | CHILD; CHILDREN | Rachel | Family | Zilpah | Emulation | Laban | Barren | Polygamy | Leah | Contracts | Dishonesty | Craftiness | Women | Wages | Servant | Greed | Sheep | Animals | more
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NET Notes: Gen 30:7 Heb “and she became pregnant again and Bilhah, the servant of Rachel, bore a second son for Jacob.”

NET Notes: Gen 30:8 The name Naphtali (נַפְתָּלִי, naftali) must mean something like “my struggle”...

NET Notes: Gen 30:9 Heb “she took her servant Zilpah and gave her.” The verbs “took” and “gave” are treated as a hendiadys in the tran...

NET Notes: Gen 30:10 Heb “and Zilpah, the servant of Leah, bore for Jacob a son.”

NET Notes: Gen 30:11 The name Gad (גָּד, gad) means “good fortune.” The name reflects Leah’s feeling that good fortune has come h...

NET Notes: Gen 30:12 Heb “and Zilpah, the servant of Leah, bore a second son for Jacob.”

NET Notes: Gen 30:13 The name Asher (אָשֶׁר, ’asher) apparently means “happy one.” The name plays on the words used i...

NET Notes: Gen 30:14 Mandrake plants were popularly believed to be an aphrodisiac in the culture of the time.

NET Notes: Gen 30:15 Heb “lie down.” The expression “lie down with” in this context (here and in the following verse) refers to sexual intercourse....

NET Notes: Gen 30:16 This is the same Hebrew verb (שָׁכַב, shakhav) translated “sleep with” in v. 15. In direct discourse t...

NET Notes: Gen 30:17 Heb “and she bore for Jacob a fifth son,” i.e., this was the fifth son that Leah had given Jacob.

NET Notes: Gen 30:18 The name Issachar (יְשָּׁשכָר, yishakhar) appears to mean “man of reward” or p...

NET Notes: Gen 30:19 Heb “and she bore a sixth son for Jacob,” i.e., this was the sixth son that Leah had given Jacob.

NET Notes: Gen 30:20 The name Zebulun (זְבֻלוּן, zevulun) apparently means “honor.” The name plays on the verb ...

NET Notes: Gen 30:22 Heb “and God listened to her and opened up her womb.” Since “God” is the subject of the previous clause, the noun has been rep...

NET Notes: Gen 30:23 Heb “my reproach.” A “reproach” is a cutting taunt or painful ridicule, but here it probably refers by metonymy to Rachel̵...

NET Notes: Gen 30:24 The name Joseph (יוֹסֵף, yoseph) means “may he add.” The name expresses Rachel’s desire to have ...

NET Notes: Gen 30:25 Heb “to my place and to my land.”

NET Notes: Gen 30:26 Heb “for you, you know my service [with] which I have served you.”

NET Notes: Gen 30:27 Or perhaps “I have grown rich and the Lord has blessed me” (cf. NEB). See J. Finkelstein, “An Old Babylonian Herding Contract and Ge...

NET Notes: Gen 30:28 Heb “set your wage for me so I may give [it].”

NET Notes: Gen 30:29 Heb “and how your cattle were with me.”

NET Notes: Gen 30:30 Heb “How long [until] I do, also I, for my house?”

NET Notes: Gen 30:31 Heb “I will return, I will tend,” an idiom meaning “I will continue tending.”

NET Notes: Gen 30:32 Heb “and it will be my wage.” The referent collective singular pronoun (“it) has been specified as “these animals” in th...

NET Notes: Gen 30:33 Heb “every one which is not speckled and spotted among the lambs and dark among the goats, stolen it is with me.”

NET Notes: Gen 30:34 Heb “and Laban said, ‘Good, let it be according to your word.’” On the asseverative use of the particle לוּ ...

NET Notes: Gen 30:35 Heb “and he gave [them] into the hand.”

NET Notes: Gen 30:36 The disjunctive clause (introduced by the vav with subject) is circumstantial/temporal; Laban removed the animals while Jacob was taking care of the r...

NET Notes: Gen 30:38 He put the branches in front of the flocks…when they came to drink. It was generally believed that placing such “visual aids” before...

NET Notes: Gen 30:39 Heb “the sheep.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“they”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

NET Notes: Gen 30:40 Heb “and he set the faces of.”

NET Notes: Gen 30:41 Heb “and at every breeding-heat of the flock.”

NET Notes: Gen 30:42 Heb “were for Laban.”

NET Notes: Gen 30:43 Heb “and there were to him.”

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