Bilhah became pregnant and gave Jacob a son.

Soon Leah’s servant Zilpah gave Jacob a son.

Then Leah’s servant Zilpah gave Jacob another son.

Leah became pregnant again and gave Jacob a son for the sixth time.

But Jacob said, “Swear an oath to me now.” So Esau swore an oath to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.

Then Laban said to Jacob, “Should you work for me for nothing because you are my relative? Tell me what your wages should be.”

Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, became pregnant again and gave Jacob another son.

God paid attention to Leah; she became pregnant and gave Jacob a son for the fifth time.

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.

“Here is this pile of stones and this pillar I have set up between me and you,” Laban said to Jacob.

Now Dinah, Leah’s daughter whom she bore to Jacob, went to meet the young women of the land.

These were the sons of Rachel who were born to Jacob, fourteen in all.

When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.

“What have you done?” Laban demanded of Jacob. “You’ve deceived me and carried away my daughters as if they were captives of war!

Jacob became angry and argued with Laban. “What did I do wrong?” he demanded of Laban. “What sin of mine prompted you to chase after me in hot pursuit?

then you must say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They have been sent as a gift to my lord Esau. In fact Jacob himself is behind us.’”

These were the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, along with Dinah his daughter. His sons and daughters numbered thirty-three in all.

These were the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter. She bore these to Jacob, sixteen in all.

These were the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter. She bore these to Jacob, seven in all.

All the direct descendants of Jacob who went to Egypt with him were sixty-six in number. (This number does not include the wives of Jacob’s sons.)