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   Bible Reading for January 10   
      
   Genesis Chapter 30   
      
   1 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her   
   sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.   
      
   2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in   
   God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?   
      
   3 And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall   
   bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.   
      
   4 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.   
      
   5 And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.   
      
   6 And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and   
   hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.   
      
   7 And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son.   
      
   8 And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister,   
   and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.   
      
   9 When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and   
   gave her Jacob to wife.   
      
   10 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son.   
      
   11 And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.   
      
   12 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son.   
      
   13 And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed:   
   and she called his name Asher.   
      
   14 And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in   
   the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to   
   Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.   
      
   15 And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken my   
   husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel   
   said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son's mandrakes.   
      
   16 And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to   
   meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired   
   thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.   
      
   17 And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob the   
   fifth son.   
      
   18 And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my   
   maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.   
      
   19 And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.   
      
   20 And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry; now will my   
   husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and she called   
   his name Zebulun.   
      
   21 And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.   
      
   22 And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.   
      
   23 And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my   
   reproach:   
      
   24 And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me   
   another son.   
      
   25 And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said   
   unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my   
   country.   
      
   26 Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and   
   let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.   
      
   27 And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine   
   eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that the LORD hath blessed   
   me for thy sake.   
      
   28 And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.   
      
   29 And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how   
   thy cattle was with me.   
      
   30 For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now   
   increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my   
   coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?   
      
   31 And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not   
   give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed   
   and keep thy flock:   
      
   32 I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all   
   the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the   
   sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall   
   be my hire.   
      
   33 So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it   
   shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled   
   and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be   
   counted stolen with me.   
      
   34 And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.   
      
   35 And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and   
   spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every   
   one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and   
   gave them into the hand of his sons.   
      
   36 And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob   
   fed the rest of Laban's flocks.   
      
   37 And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut   
   tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which   
   was in the rods.   
      
   38 And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the   
   gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they   
   should conceive when they came to drink.   
      
   39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle   
   ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.   
      
   40 And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks   
   toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he   
   put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle.   
      
   41 And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive,   
   that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters,   
   that they might conceive among the rods.   
      
   42 But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler   
   were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.   
      
   43 And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and   
   maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.   
      
   Genesis Chapter 31   
      
   1 And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away   
   all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he   
   gotten all this glory.   
      
   2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not   
   toward him as before.   
      
   3 And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and   
   to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.   
      
   4 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock,   
      
   5 And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not   
   toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me.   
      
   6 And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.   
      
   7 And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but   
   God suffered him not to hurt me.   
      
   8 If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle   
   bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire;   
   then bare all the cattle ringstraked.   
      
   9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.   
      
   10 And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I   
   lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which   
   leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked, speckled, and grisled.   
      
      
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