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    "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z",
    "language": "en",
    "book": "genesis-woh",
    "chapter": 30
  },
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    "n": 30,
    "bookSlug": "genesis-woh",
    "bookCode": "GEN-WOH",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "Genesis 30 — The substitute-wife births, the mandrakes, the birth of Yosef, and Ya'aqov's rod-trick with Lavan's flocks",
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Source verified independently."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-30:2","status":"approve","citations":["Sarna *JPS* p. 208","Westermann pp. 472-473"],"reasoning":"*Hatachat Elohim anokhi* correctly rendered *Am I in the place of Elohim*. The Hannah-contrast (1 Sam 1:8) implicit in the rebuke is well-grounded in modern critical literature."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-30:3","status":"approve","citations":["Speiser *AB Genesis* p. 230 (Hurrian/Nuzi parallels)"],"reasoning":"*Al-birkai* correctly rendered as the ANE adoption-formula *upon my knees*; *ibaneh*/*ben* pun preserved in commentary. Source verified."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-30:4","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Standard ASV-baseline. *Shifchah* / *l-ishah* construction matches Gen 16. No issues."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-30:5","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Trivial conception-and-birth notice; ASV-baseline correct."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-30:6","status":"approve","citations":["BDB s.v. *dyn* p. 192","Sarna *JPS* p. 209-210","Westermann pp. 474-475"],"reasoning":"*Dananni Elohim* correctly rendered *Elohim has judged me*; forensic-*dyn* sense defensible and reactivated at Gen 49:16. Source verified."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-30:7","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Standard conception-notice. *Shifchat Rachel* preserved. ASV-baseline."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-30:8","status":"approve","citations":["Alter *Five Books of Moses* 2004 p. 159","Speiser *AB Genesis* p. 230","Sarna *JPS* p. 210"],"reasoning":"Conservative superlative-Elohim reading (ASV) preserved in English; genitive-divine alternative correctly flagged in commentary. Defensible philological choice; the dispute is honestly recorded."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-30:9","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Standard substitute-wife notice paralleling vv 3-4. ASV-baseline."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-30:10","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Standard conception-and-birth notice. ASV-baseline."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-30:11","status":"approve","citations":["Sarna *JPS* p. 210","Albright *Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan* 1968 (GD-deity background)"],"reasoning":"Ketiv/qere crux correctly identified; WoH follows qere *Ba Gad* (*Fortune has come!*) per conservative-rabbinic-default. Phoenician GD-deity background and Isa 65:11 syncretism-condemnation properly flagged."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-30:12","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Standard conception-notice. ASV-baseline."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-30:13","status":"approve","citations":["BDB s.v. *asher* I","Sarna *JPS* p. 210"],"reasoning":"Doubled-anchor *b-oshri* + *ish'runi banot* on the root *'-sh-r*; Song 6:9 / Prov 31:28 *banot*-chorus genre-marker correctly cited."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-30:14","status":"approve","citations":["Zohary *Plants of the Bible* 1982 pp. 188-189","Moldenke & Moldenke *Plants of the Bible* 1952 pp. 137-139"],"reasoning":"*Mandragora officinarum/autumnalis* identification is modern botanical consensus; *dod*/*duda'im* etymological link transparent; Song 7:14 cross-corpus reach correctly noted."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-30:15","status":"approve","citations":["Zohary 1982 pp. 188-189"],"reasoning":"Le'ah's accusation-and-counteroffer correctly rendered; the marital-night-rights-for-mandrakes trade is grammatically explicit in the Hebrew."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-30:16","status":"approve","citations":["BDB s.v. *sakhar*","Sarna *JPS* p. 211"],"reasoning":"*Sakhor sekhartikha* (inf-abs + finite) correctly rendered *I have surely hired you*; seeds the Yissakhar-aetiology two verses later — apparatus correctly flags."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-30:17","status":"approve","citations":["Westermann pp. 475-476","Sarna *JPS* p. 211"],"reasoning":"*Va-yishma Elohim el-Le'ah* — the narrator's substitution of divine-hearing for the herbal-aphrodisiac as operative cause is the chapter's most-economical theological statement. Translation correct; commentary correctly identifies the technique-versus-providence juxtaposition."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-30:18","status":"approve","citations":["Sarna *JPS* p. 212","Speiser *AB Genesis* p. 230"],"reasoning":"Three-layered causal-attribution (shifchah-service / mandrake-trade / divine-hearing) correctly surfaced. *Yissakhar* orthographic crux honestly noted."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-30:19","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Standard conception-notice. ASV-baseline."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-30:20","status":"approve","citations":["Speiser *AB Genesis* p. 230 (redactor-doublet)","Westermann pp. 477-478","Ugaritic KTU 1.2.1.43 (*zbl b'l*)"],"reasoning":"Doubled-pun *zavad* + *zaval* correctly preserved in both English glosses (*endowed me with a good dowry* + *my husband dwell with me*) — the structurally-correct choice over single-pun smoothings. Ugaritic *zbl b'l* parallel real."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-30:21","status":"approve","citations":["Sternberg *Poetics of Biblical Narrative* 1985 ch. 12","Sarna *JPS* p. 212"],"reasoning":"Dinah's aetiological-silence as deliberate-redactional-marker correctly read; Gen 34 anticipation defensible; the Dan-Dinah feminine-cognate judgment-pair is a real wordplay worth surfacing."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-30:22","status":"approve","citations":["BDB s.v. *zakhar*","Westermann pp. 478","Sarna *JPS* p. 213"],"reasoning":"Three divine-fertility-formulae (*zakhar* + *shama* + *patach-rechem*) correctly identified and cross-linked to Gen 8:1, 19:29, 29:31, 1 Sam 1. The chapter's theological-climax marker."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-30:23","status":"approve","citations":["BDB s.v. *asaf*","Sarna *JPS* p. 213","Westermann pp. 478-479"],"reasoning":"*Asaf Elohim et-cherpati* correctly rendered. *Cherpah* barrenness-shame typology (Sarah/Hannah/Elisheva) genuinely cross-corpus. First half of the unique doubled-aetiology."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-30:24","status":"approve","citations":["Westermann pp. 478-479","Sarna *JPS* p. 213","Wellhausen *Prolegomena* / Friedman 2003 (E/J source attribution)"],"reasoning":"*Yosef YHWH li ben acher* — hiphil-jussive precative correctly rendered. The doublet's backward/forward, past/precative, Elohim/YHWH symmetry is unique in the patriarchal corpus and well-grounded across both documentary and final-form readings."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-30:25","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Standard leave-taking-formula matched at Gen 24:54-56. ASV-baseline."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-30:26","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Standard wage-and-service speech. ASV-baseline."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-30:27","status":"approve","citations":["BDB s.v. *nachash* II p. 638","HALOT s.v. *nḥš* II","Sarna *JPS* p. 214","Alter *Five Books of Moses* 2004 p. 161","Speiser *AB Genesis* pp. 232-234"],"reasoning":"The Speiser/Alter rendering *I have divined* over ASV's interpretive-smoothing *I have learned by experience* is defensible: BDB and HALOT both give *practise divination* as the primary Piel sense; Sarna explicitly defends the technical-cultic force; Lavan's downstream teraphim-ownership (Gen 31:19, 34-35) supports the characterization. The cross-corpus prohibition trail (Lev 19:26, Deut 18:10, 2 Kgs 17:17, 21:6, 2 Chr 33:6) and Balaam parallel (Num 24:1) are grammatically explicit. This is the chapter's most-substantive translation-shift and is properly load-bearing."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-30:28","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Standard wage-appointment speech. ASV-baseline."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-30:29","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Standard service-and-flock speech. ASV-baseline."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-30:30","status":"approve","citations":["BDB s.v. *paratz*"],"reasoning":"*Va-yifrotz la-rov* correctly seeds the *paratz*-verb that fulfills at v 43. Bethel-promise (Gen 28:14) verbal-echo identified accurately."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-30:31","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Standard offer-and-counteroffer; ASV-baseline."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-30:32","status":"approve","citations":["Sarna *JPS* p. 214"],"reasoning":"*Naqod v-talu* (*speckled and spotted*) + *chum* (*black/dark*) correctly rendered. Standard pastoral-coloration lexicon preserved."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-30:33","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Standard contract-clause. ASV-baseline."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-30:34","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Standard agreement-formula. ASV-baseline."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-30:35","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Standard flock-separation notice. *Aqudim*/*nequdot*/*telu'ot* correctly rendered."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-30:36","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Standard three-days'-journey notice. ASV-baseline."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-30:37","status":"approve","citations":["Westermann *Genesis 12-36* pp. 484-486","Alter *Five Books of Moses* 2004 p. 161","Sarna *JPS* p. 215","Zohary *Plants of the Bible* 1982 pp. 130-133"],"reasoning":"Three-tree botanical identifications (poplar/storax, almond, plane-tree) are modern botanical consensus. The *livneh*/*lavan*/*Laban* triple-pun is real and noted in all major modern critical commentaries — the chapter's most-pointed lexical wordplay."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-30:38","status":"approve","citations":["Speiser *AB Genesis* 1964 pp. 235-237","Westermann pp. 484-487","Sarna *JPS* p. 215","Albright *From the Stone Age to Christianity* 1957","Leichty *Šumma Izbu* TCS 4, 1970","Aristotle *Hist. Anim.* 7.6","Pliny *Nat. Hist.* 7.51"],"reasoning":"Sympathetic-magic / maternal-impression folklore reading is the mainstream modern critical philological consensus. Mesopotamian *šumma izbu* veterinary-omen parallels documented in cuneiform corpus. The technique-versus-providence doublet (Gen 30:37-42 vs. Gen 31:9-13) is text-internal and verifiable. *Yacham* (qal imperfect of *be-in-heat*) correctly rendered *conceived*. Translation discipline held: English is ASV-baseline; the folk-magic apparatus carried in commentary."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-30:39","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"*Aqudim nequdim u-telu'im* correctly rendered *ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted*. ASV-baseline."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-30:40","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Flock-separation notice; ASV-baseline. *Hifrid* correctly rendered *separated*."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-30:41","status":"approve","citations":["Speiser *AB Genesis* p. 236","Sarna *JPS* p. 215"],"reasoning":"*Ha-mequsharot* (*the stronger/banded*) and *l-yachmenah ba-maqlot* correctly rendered. The selective-deployment of rods only at strong-flock-heat is a technical-pastoral detail correctly preserved."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-30:42","status":"approve","citations":["Sarna *JPS* p. 215"],"reasoning":"*Ha-atufim* (*the feeble*) correctly contrasted with *ha-qeshurim* (*the stronger*); ASV-baseline preserved. Standard pastoral-vocabulary."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-30:43","status":"approve","citations":["BDB s.v. *paratz*","Westermann pp. 487-488","Sarna *JPS* p. 216"],"reasoning":"*Va-yifrotz ha-ish me'od me'od* — eruptive-prosperity-formula correctly identified; Gen 28:14 Bethel-promise verbal-fulfillment and Exod 1:7,12 *paratz* + *me'od me'od* downstream-echo well-grounded. Camel-anachronism reference correctly carried via existing glossary entry."}],"glossaryReview":[{"glossary_id":"havah-li-banim-rachel-cry","status":"approve","citations":["BDB s.v. *yahav* p. 396","HALOT s.v. *yahav*","Westermann *Genesis 12-36* pp. 472-474","Sarna *JPS Genesis* p. 208","Alter *Five Books of Moses* 2004 p. 159"],"reasoning":"Claim-type `direct` defensible: the *havah* imperative is grammatically explicit; the Babel-parallel distribution (Gen 11:3, 4, 7; cf. Gen 38:16, Exod 1:10) is verifiable by lexical search; the Hannah-Rachel barren-matriarch typology with the husband-rebuke vs. husband-consolation contrast is recorded in Sarna and Westermann. Translation choice (ASV-baseline preserved) is conservative-correct."},{"glossary_id":"bilhah-zilpah-handmaid-sons-aetiology-cluster","status":"approve","citations":["BDB s.v. *dyn*, *p-t-l*, *gad*, *'-sh-r*","Sarna *JPS Genesis* pp. 209-211","Westermann pp. 474-477","Albright *Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan* 1968 (GD-deity)","Pope on Gad in Phoenician contexts","Speiser *AB Genesis* pp. 230-231"],"reasoning":"Four-fold cluster is `direct`: each name-aetiology is grammatically explicit in its naming-speech. Gad ketiv/qere crux honestly recorded; Phoenician GD onomastic-background defensible from KAI inscriptions and Isa 65:11. Naphtali's superlative-Elohim vs. genitive-divine dispute fairly represented; ASV-baseline choice conservative."},{"glossary_id":"duda'im-mandrakes","status":"approve","citations":["Zohary *Plants of the Bible* 1982 pp. 188-189","Moldenke & Moldenke *Plants of the Bible* 1952 pp. 137-139","Theophrastus *Hist. Plant.* 9.9.1","Pliny *Nat. Hist.* 25.94","CAD P 374-376 (*pıllu*)","Westermann pp. 475-476"],"reasoning":"Botanical identification with *Mandragora officinarum/autumnalis* is modern botanical consensus. The *dod/duda'im* d-w-d/d-d etymological link is grammatically transparent; Song 7:14 cross-corpus erotic-register confirms the love-magic semantic field. ANE comparative materia-medica (Egyptian *rrmt*, Akkadian *pıllu*, Greek-classical) is documented across cuneiform, papyrological, and classical corpora. The narrator's non-credit of the mandrakes at v 17 (*shama*-substitution) is verifiable by reading. Claim-type `direct` defensible."},{"glossary_id":"leah-second-sons-aetiology-cluster","status":"approve","citations":["BDB s.v. *sakhar*, *zavad*, *zaval*, *dyn*","Sarna *JPS Genesis* pp. 211-212","Speiser *AB Genesis* p. 230","Ugaritic KTU 1.2.1.43 (*zbl b'l*)","Sternberg *Poetics of Biblical Narrative* 1985 ch. 12","Fewell & Gunn *Tipping the Balance* 1991"],"reasoning":"Yissakhar *sakhar*-anchor, Zevulun doubled-pun *zavad*+*zaval* (Ugaritic *zbl b'l* parallel real), and Dinah's absent-aetiology as deliberate-marker are all grammatically explicit. Speiser's redactor-doublet observation on Zevulun preserved by both-puns-in-English choice. Claim-type `direct` correct."},{"glossary_id":"yosef-double-name-aetiology","status":"approve","citations":["BDB s.v. *asaf*, *yasaf*, *cherpah*","Westermann pp. 478-479","Sarna *JPS Genesis* p. 213","Alter *Five Books of Moses* 2004 p. 160","Wellhausen *Prolegomena*","Friedman *The Bible with Sources Revealed* 2003"],"reasoning":"The unique-in-patriarchal-corpus successive-verse doublet structure (asaf, past-perfective, Elohim, v 23; yasaf, hiphil-jussive precative, YHWH, v 24) is grammatically explicit. Both documentary-critical (E/J) and final-form (Westermann, Sarna, Alter) readings converge on the same narrative-effect: Yosef's heaviest naming-apparatus marking downstream-narrative-centrality. *Cherpah* barrenness-shame typology (Sarah, Hannah, Elisheva) genuinely cross-corpus. Benjamin (Gen 35:16-20) anticipation defensible. Claim-type `direct` correct."},{"glossary_id":"nichesh-laban-divination","status":"approve","citations":["BDB s.v. *nachash* II p. 638 (Piel: *practise divination, divine, observe omens*)","HALOT s.v. *nḥš* II","Sarna *JPS Genesis* p. 214","Alter *Five Books of Moses* 2004 p. 161","Speiser *AB Genesis* pp. 232-234","Lev 19:26","Deut 18:10-11","Num 24:1","2 Kgs 17:17, 21:6","2 Chr 33:6","Isa 47:9, 12-13"],"reasoning":"First-patriarchal-use claim verifiable by lexical search. Cross-corpus prohibition-trail (Lev/Deut/Kings/Chronicles) grammatically explicit. WoH translation choice *I have divined* over ASV smoothing *I have learned by experience* is defensible: BDB gives *practise divination* as primary Piel sense; Speiser, Alter, NRSV all preserve the technical-cultic force. Lavan's downstream teraphim-ownership (Gen 31:19, 34-35) supports the divination-practitioner characterization. Yosef's Egyptian-cup-divination at Gen 44:5, 15 is internal-Genesis precedent for descriptively-positive *nichesh* in non-Israelite-cultic-contexts. Claim-type `direct` correct."},{"glossary_id":"jacob-rod-trick-sympathetic-fertility","status":"approve","citations":["Speiser *AB Genesis* 1964 pp. 235-237","Westermann *Genesis 12-36* pp. 484-487","Sarna *JPS Genesis* pp. 215-216","Alter *Five Books of Moses* 2004 p. 161","Hamilton *NICOT Genesis 18-50* 1995 pp. 282-285","Wenham *WBC Genesis 16-50* 1994 pp. 256-258","Albright *From the Stone Age to Christianity* 1957","Leichty *The Omen Series Šumma Izbu* TCS 4, 1970","Aristotle *Hist. Anim.* 7.6","Pliny *Nat. Hist.* 7.51","Zohary *Plants of the Bible* 1982 pp. 130-133"],"reasoning":"Load-bearing major entry. Sympathetic-magic / maternal-impression folklore reading is mainstream modern critical philological consensus across Speiser, Westermann, Sarna, Alter, Hamilton, Wenham. Mesopotamian *šumma izbu* veterinary-omen-corpus is documented cuneiform-tablet evidence (Leichty's canonical edition). The *livneh*/*lavan*/*Laban* triple-pun is real and flagged in all major modern critical commentaries. The technique-versus-providence doublet (Gen 30:37-42 sympathetic-magic vs. Gen 31:9-13 dream-revelation reframe) is text-internal and verifiable. WoH discipline held: the English running translation is ASV-baseline; the folk-magic apparatus carried in commentary, not bleeding into the verse rendering. Claim-type `direct` correct."},{"glossary_id":"paratz-me'od-prosperity-formula","status":"approve","citations":["BDB s.v. *paratz* p. 829","HALOT s.v. *prṣ*","Sarna *JPS Genesis* pp. 216","Westermann pp. 487-488","Gen 28:14","Exod 1:7, 12, 20","Gen 38:29","2 Sam 5:20","Ruth 4:18-22","Job 1:10","Hos 4:10"],"reasoning":"Eruptive-prosperity *paratz*-formula with doubled-hyperbolic *me'od me'od* is grammatically explicit. Intra-chapter structural framing (v 30 seed + v 43 closure-with-doubled-intensifier) verifiable by reading. Cross-corpus reach genuine: Gen 28:14 Bethel-promise verbal-fulfillment within Jacob-cycle is the chapter-arc's most-deliberate compositional move; Exod 1:7, 12 *paratz* + *me'od me'od* downstream-echo is one of the Pentateuch's most-explicit verbal-promise-fulfillment-chains; Peretz (Gen 38:29) royal-ancestor name-anchor and Baal-Peratzim (2 Sam 5:20) David-victory-toponym all root in the same verb. Claim-type `direct` correct."}],"lens-leakage-flags":[],"summary":"Chapter 30 (43 verses, 8 new direct-claim glossary entries) reviewed independently against Masoretic source. All 43 verses approved. All 8 glossary entries approved. No `claim_type: speculative` entries present; no veto authority invoked. The four load-bearing entries flagged in the brief (`jacob-rod-trick-sympathetic-fertility`, `nichesh-laban-divination`, `yosef-double-name-aetiology`, `duda'im-mandrakes`) all carry their `direct` claim-type honestly — each documents mainstream modern critical philological consensus with verifiable cuneiform / classical / lexical evidence. The v 27 *nichashti* rendering *I have divined* over ASV's *I have learned by experience* is defensible (BDB primary Piel sense; Sarna, Alter, Speiser concur). Lens-leakage check: the English running translation is ASV-baseline throughout; the most lens-relevant moment (the rod-trick) is rendered in plain pastoral English with sympathetic-magic and divine-providence framings carried separately in commentary rather than bleeding into the verse text. The Elohim-singular/plural discipline holds. No leakage detected. Framework is mature; ready for `reviewer-approved` advancement."}},
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:1",
        "text": "And when Rachel saw that she bore Ya'aqov no children, Rachel envied her sister; and she said to Ya'aqov, Give me children, or else I die."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:2",
        "text": "And Ya'aqov's anger was kindled against Rachel; and he said, Am I in the place of Elohim, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:3",
        "text": "And she said, Behold, my handmaid Bilhah, go in to her; and she shall bear upon my knees, and I also shall be built up through her."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:4",
        "text": "And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife; and Ya'aqov went in to her."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:5",
        "text": "And Bilhah conceived, and bore Ya'aqov a son."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:6",
        "text": "And Rachel said, Elohim has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son; therefore she called his name Dan."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:7",
        "text": "And Bilhah Rachel's handmaid conceived again, and bore Ya'aqov a second son."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:8",
        "text": "And Rachel said, With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed; and she called his name Naphtali."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:9",
        "text": "When Le'ah saw that she had left off bearing, she took Zilpah her handmaid, and gave her to Ya'aqov to wife."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:10",
        "text": "And Zilpah Le'ah's handmaid bore Ya'aqov a son."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:11",
        "text": "And Le'ah said, Fortune has come! and she called his name Gad."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:12",
        "text": "And Zilpah Le'ah's handmaid bore Ya'aqov a second son."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:13",
        "text": "And Le'ah said, In my happiness! for the daughters will call me blessed; and she called his name Asher."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:14",
        "text": "And Re'uven went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Le'ah. Then Rachel said to Le'ah, Give me, I pray you, of your son's mandrakes."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:15",
        "text": "And she said to her, Is it a small matter that you have taken my husband? and would you take away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with you tonight for your son's mandrakes."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:16",
        "text": "And Ya'aqov came from the field in the evening, and Le'ah 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."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:17",
        "text": "And Elohim hearkened to Le'ah, and she conceived, and bore Ya'aqov a fifth son."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:18",
        "text": "And Le'ah said, Elohim has given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband; and she called his name Yissakhar."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:19",
        "text": "And Le'ah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Ya'aqov."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:20",
        "text": "And Le'ah said, Elohim has endowed me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons; and she called his name Zevulun."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:21",
        "text": "And afterwards she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:22",
        "text": "And Elohim remembered Rachel, and Elohim hearkened to her, and opened her womb."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:23",
        "text": "And she conceived, and bore a son, and said, Elohim has taken away my reproach."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:24",
        "text": "And she called his name Yosef, saying, May YHWH add to me another son."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:25",
        "text": "And it came to pass, when Rachel had borne Yosef, that Ya'aqov said to Lavan, Send me away, that I may go to my own place and to my country."
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:26",
        "text": "Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you."
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:27",
        "text": "And Lavan said to him, If now I have found favor in your eyes, tarry — I have divined that YHWH has blessed me for your sake."
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:28",
        "text": "And he said, Appoint me your wages, and I will give it."
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:29",
        "text": "And he said to him, You know how I have served you, and how your cattle have fared with me."
      },{
        "n": 30,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:30",
        "text": "For it was little that you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude; and YHWH has blessed you wherever I turned. And now when shall I provide for my own house also?"
      },{
        "n": 31,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:31",
        "text": "And he said, What shall I give you? And Ya'aqov said, You shall not give me anything; if you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it:"
      },{
        "n": 32,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:32",
        "text": "I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and that shall be my wages."
      },{
        "n": 33,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:33",
        "text": "So shall my righteousness answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my wages that is before you: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that, if found with me, shall be counted stolen."
      },{
        "n": 34,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:34",
        "text": "And Lavan said, Behold, I would it were according to your word."
      },{
        "n": 35,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:35",
        "text": "And he removed that day the he-goats that were ringstreaked and spotted, and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons."
      },{
        "n": 36,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:36",
        "text": "And he set three days' journey between himself and Ya'aqov; and Ya'aqov was feeding the rest of Lavan's flocks."
      },{
        "n": 37,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:37",
        "text": "And Ya'aqov took rods of fresh poplar, and of the almond, and of the plane-tree; and peeled white streaks in them, exposing the white which was in the rods."
      },{
        "n": 38,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:38",
        "text": "And he set the rods which he had peeled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink; and they conceived when they came to drink."
      },{
        "n": 39,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:39",
        "text": "And the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted."
      },{
        "n": 40,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:40",
        "text": "And Ya'aqov separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstreaked and all the black in the flock of Lavan; and he put his own droves apart, and put them not unto Lavan's flock."
      },{
        "n": 41,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:41",
        "text": "And it came to pass, whenever the stronger of the flock did conceive, that Ya'aqov laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods;"
      },{
        "n": 42,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:42",
        "text": "but when the flock were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Lavan's, and the stronger Ya'aqov's."
      },{
        "n": 43,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-30:43",
        "text": "And the man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, and handmaids and menservants, and camels and donkeys."
      }
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