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Book of Genesis, Chapter 30

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Genesis 30 NASB - New American Standard BibleGenesis 30 NASB - New American Standard Bible

Chapter 30 of Genesis—New American Standard Bible (NASB)

  1. ¶ Now when Rachel saw that 1she bore Jacob no children, [a]she became jealous of her sister; and she said to Jacob, “2Give me children, or else I die.”
  2. Then Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of God, who has 3withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”
  3. She said, “4Here is my maid Bilhah, go in to her that she may 5bear on my knees, that [b]6through her I too may have children.”
  4. So 7she gave him her maid Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.
  5. Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.
  6. Then Rachel said, “God has [c]8vindicated me, and has indeed heard my voice and has given me a son.” Therefore she named him [d]Dan.
  7. Rachel’s maid Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.
  8. So Rachel said, “With [e]mighty wrestlings I have [f]wrestled with my sister, and I have indeed prevailed.” And she named him Naphtali.
  9. ¶ When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, she took her maid Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
  10. Leah’s maid Zilpah bore Jacob a son.
  11. Then Leah said, “[g]How fortunate!” So she named him [h]Gad.
  12. Leah’s maid Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.
  13. Then Leah said, “[i]Happy am I! For women 9will call me happy.” So she named him [j]Asher.
  14. ¶ Now in the days of wheat harvest Reuben went and found 10mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”
  15. But she said to her, “Is it a small matter for you to take my husband? And would you take my son’s mandrakes also?” So Rachel said, “Therefore he may lie with you tonight in return for your son’s mandrakes.”
  16. When Jacob came in from the field in the evening, then 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.” So he lay with her that night.
  17. God gave heed to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.
  18. Then Leah said, “God has given me my [k]wages because I gave my maid to my husband.” So she named him Issachar.
  19. Leah conceived again and bore a sixth son to Jacob.
  20. Then Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good gift; now my husband [l]will dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons.” So she named him Zebulun.
  21. Afterward she bore a daughter and named her Dinah.
  22. ¶ Then 11God remembered Rachel, and God gave heed to her and 12opened her womb.
  23. So she conceived and bore a son and said, “God has 13taken away my reproach.”
  24. She named him Joseph, saying, “14May the LORD [m]give me another son.”
  25. ¶ Now it came about when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, “15Send me away, that I may go to my own place and to my own country.
  26. Give me my wives and my children 16for whom I have served you, and let me depart; for you yourself know my service which I have [n]rendered you.”
  27. But Laban said to him, “If now [o]it pleases you, stay with me; I have divined 17that the LORD has blessed me on your account.”
  28. He [p]continued, “18Name me your wages, and I will give it.”
  29. But he said to him, “19You yourself know how I have served you and how your cattle have [q]fared with me.
  30. For you had little before [r]I came and it has [s]increased to a multitude, and the LORD has blessed you [t]wherever I turned. But now, when shall I provide for my own household also?”
  31. So he said, “What shall I give you?” And Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this one thing for me, I will again pasture and keep your flock:
  32. let me pass through your entire flock today, removing from there every 20speckled and spotted sheep and every black [u]one among the lambs and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and such shall be my wages.
  33. So my [v]honesty will answer for me later, when you come concerning my [w]wages. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and black among the lambs, if found with me, will be considered stolen.”
  34. Laban said, “[x]Good, let it be according to your word.”
  35. So he removed on that day the striped and spotted male goats and all the speckled and spotted female goats, every one with white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the [y]care of his sons.
  36. And he put a distance of three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.
  37. ¶ Then Jacob [z]took fresh rods of poplar and almond and plane trees, and peeled white stripes in them, exposing the white which was [aa]in the rods.
  38. He set the rods which he had peeled in front of the flocks in the gutters, even in the watering troughs, where the flocks came to drink; and they [ab]mated when they came to drink.
  39. So the flocks [ac]mated by the rods, and the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted.
  40. Jacob separated the lambs, and [ad]made the flocks face toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban; and he put his own herds apart, and did not put them with Laban’s flock.
  41. Moreover, whenever the [ae]stronger of the flock [af]were mating, Jacob would place the rods in the sight of the flock in the gutters, so that they might [ag]mate by the rods;
  42. but when the flock was feeble, he did not put them in; so the feebler were Laban’s and the [ah]stronger Jacob’s.
  43. So 21the man [ai]became exceedingly prosperous, and had large flocks and female and male servants and camels and donkeys.

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Lit Rachel
  2. ^ Lit from her I too may be built
  3. ^ Lit judged
  4. ^ I.e. He judged
  5. ^ Lit wrestlings of God
  6. ^ Heb niphtal, related to Naphtali
  7. ^ Lit With fortune! Some versions read Fortune has come
  8. ^ I.e. Fortune
  9. ^ Lit With my happiness!
  10. ^ I.e. happy
  11. ^ Heb sachar, related to Issachar
  12. ^ Heb zabal, related to Zebulun. Some translate will honor
  13. ^ Lit add to me; Heb Joseph
  14. ^ Lit served
  15. ^ Lit I have found favor in your eyes
  16. ^ Lit said
  17. ^ Lit been
  18. ^ Lit me
  19. ^ Lit broken forth
  20. ^ Lit at my foot
  21. ^ Lit sheep
  22. ^ Lit righteousness
  23. ^ Lit wages which are before you
  24. ^ Lit Behold, would that it might be
  25. ^ Lit hand
  26. ^ Lit took to himself
  27. ^ Lit on
  28. ^ Or conceived
  29. ^ Or conceived
  30. ^ Lit set the faces
  31. ^ Lit bound ones; i.e. firm and compact
  32. ^ Or conceived
  33. ^ Or conceive
  34. ^ Lit bound ones; i.e. firm and compact
  35. ^ Lit broke forth

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Ge 29:31
  2. ^ 1Sa 1:5, 6
  3. ^ Ge 20:18; 29:31
  4. ^ Ge 16:2
  5. ^ Ge 50:23; Jb 3:12
  6. ^ Ge 16:2
  7. ^ Ge 16:3, 4
  8. ^ Ps 35:24; 43:1; La 3:59
  9. ^ Lu 1:48
  10. ^ Sg 7:13
  11. ^ 1Sa 1:19, 20
  12. ^ Ge 29:31
  13. ^ Is 4:1; Lu 1:25
  14. ^ Ge 35:17
  15. ^ Ge 24:54, 56
  16. ^ Ge 29:18, 20, 27; Ho 12:12
  17. ^ Ge 26:24; 39:3, 5; Is 61:9
  18. ^ Ge 29:15; 31:7, 41
  19. ^ Ge 31:6
  20. ^ Ge 31:8
  21. ^ Ge 12:16; 13:2; 24:35; 26:13, 14; 30:30

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Comments

  1. Kiamia DoelKiamia Doel
    Jan 9, 2025 23:00 GMT

    The NWT adds words to the text that are not in the greek Manuscripts to fit it's own doctrinal position for example

    Compare the wording of the NWT and the NKJV at Colossians 1:15-17

    NKJV says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

    NWT says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God,the firstborn OF all creation;16 because by means of him all OTHER things were created in the heavens and on the earth, the things visible and the things invisible,whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All OTHER things have been created through him and for him. 17 Also, he is before all OTHER things,and by means of him all OTHER things were made to exist,

    The word “other” is not in the Greek but they add it Why? So they can decieve their followers into thinking that Christ was created by the Father and that he then created other things, that is not what the Greek says.

    1. SmeSme
      Feb 27, 2025 11:17 GMT

      Truth is from God and those that follow him. As for lies? John8:44

      Kiamia, I noticed you used a modern version of kjv to make your point about the nwt.

      Why didn’t you use the original kjv of col1:15?

      Is it because it disproves your point? It proves the opposite of what you wrote?

      Here is kjv col1:15 ¶” Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn OF every creature:“

      Now I appeal to your Christian nature to correct your mistake as God is watching each of us, and let us bless the God of Jesus his father.

      Kjv 1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ….

  2. YanekYanek
    Dec 24, 2024 22:18 GMT

    Joshua, Jehovah’s Witnesses have never denied the deity of the Messiah in his prehuman existence. While on Earth he was fully 100% human. I do not mean he was a mere human, he was not affected by Adam’s unfaithful behavior, he was sinless.

  3. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  4. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  5. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  6. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  7. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  8. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  9. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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