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Genesis 30 Literal Standard Version
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1 And Rachel sees that she has not borne to Jacob, and Rachel is envious of her sister, and says to Jacob, “Give me sons, and if there is none—I die.”
1 Y VIENDO Rachêl que no daba hijos á Jacob, tuvo envidia de su hermana, y decía á Jacob: Dame hijos, ó si no, me muero.
1 When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”
2 And Jacob’s anger burns against Rachel, and he says, “Am I in stead of God who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”
2 Y Jacob se enojaba contra Rachêl, y decía: ¿Soy yo en lugar de Dios, que te impidió el fruto de tu vientre?
2 Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”
3 And she says, “Behold, my handmaid Bilhah, go in to her, and she bears on my knees, and I am built up, even I, from her”;
3 Y ella dijo: He aquí mi sierva Bilha; entra á ella, y parirá sobre mis rodillas, y yo también tendré hijos de ella.
3 She said, “Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her.”
4 and she gives Bilhah her maidservant to him for a wife, and Jacob goes in to her;
4 Así le dió á Bilha su sierva por mujer; y Jacob entró á ella.
4 She gave him Bilhah her servant as wife, and Jacob went in to her.
5 and Bilhah conceives, and bears a son to Jacob,
5 Y concibió Bilha, y parió á Jacob un hijo.
5 Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.
6 and Rachel says, “God has decided for me, and has also listened to my voice, and gives a son to me”; therefore she has called his name Dan.
6 Y dijo Rachêl: Juzgóme Dios, y también oyó mi voz, y dióme un hijo. Por tanto llamó su nombre Dan.
6 Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son.” Therefore she called his name Dan.
7 And Bilhah, Rachel’s maidservant, conceives again, and bears a second son to Jacob,
7 Y concibió otra vez Bilha, la sierva de Rachêl, y parió el hijo segundo á Jacob.
7 Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.
8 and Rachel says, “With wrestlings of God I have wrestled with my sister, indeed, I have prevailed”; and she calls his name Napthali.
8 Y dijo Rachêl: Con luchas de Dios he contendido con mi hermana, y he vencido. Y llamó su nombre Nephtalí.
8 Rachel said, “I have wrestled with my sister with mighty wrestlings, and have prevailed.” She named him Naphtali.
9 And Leah sees that she has ceased from bearing, and she takes Zilpah her maidservant, and gives her to Jacob for a wife;
9 Y viendo Lea que había dejado de parir, tomó á Zilpa su sierva, y dióla á Jacob por mujer.
9 When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her servant, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
10 and Zilpah, Leah’s maidservant, bears a son to Jacob,
10 Y Zilpa, sierva de Lea, parió á Jacob un hijo.
10 Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a son.
11 and Leah says, “A troop is coming”; and she calls his name Gad.
11 Y dijo Lea: Vino la ventura. Y llamó su nombre Gad.
11 Leah said, “How fortunate!” She named him Gad.
12 And Zilpah, Leah’s maidservant, bears a second son to Jacob,
12 Y Zilpa, la sierva de Lea, parió otro hijo á Jacob.
12 Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a second son.
13 and Leah says, “Because of my happiness, for daughters have pronounced me blessed”; and she calls his name Asher.
13 Y dijo Lea: Para dicha mía; porque las mujeres me dirán dichosa: y llamó su nombre Aser.
13 Leah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy.” She named him Asher.
14 And Reuben goes in the days of wheat-harvest, and finds love-apples in the field, and brings them to his mother Leah, and Rachel says to Leah, “Please give to me of the love-apples of your son.”
14 Y fué Rubén en tiempo de la siega de los trigos, y halló mandrágoras en el campo, y trájolas á Lea su madre: y dijo Rachêl á Lea: Ruégote que me des de las mandrágoras de tu hijo.
14 Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes 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 And she says to her, “Is your taking my husband a little thing, that you have also taken the love-apples of my son?” And Rachel says, “He therefore lies with you tonight, for your son’s love-apples.”
15 Y ella respondió: ¿Es poco que hayas tomado mi marido, sino que también te has de llevar las mandrágoras de mi hijo? y dijo Rachêl: Pues dormirá contigo esta noche por las mandrágoras de tu hijo.
15 Leah said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes, also?” Rachel said, “Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son’s mandrakes.”
16 And Jacob comes in from the field at evening; and Leah goes to meet him and says, “You come in to me, for [in] hiring I have hired you with my son’s love-apples”; and he lies with her during that night.
16 Y cuando Jacob volvía del campo á la tarde, salió Lea á él, y le dijo: A mí has de entrar, porque á la verdad te he alquilado por las mandrágoras de mi hijo. Y durmió con ella aquella noche.
16 Jacob came from the field in the evening, and 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.” He lay with her that night.
17 And God listens to Leah, and she conceives, and bears a son to Jacob, a fifth,
17 Y oyó Dios á Lea: y concibió, y parió á Jacob el quinto hijo.
17 God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.
18 and Leah says, “God has given my hire, because I have given my maidservant to my husband”; and she calls his name Issachar.
18 Y dijo Lea: Dios me ha dado mi recompensa, por cuanto dí mi sierva á mi marido: por eso llamó su nombre Issachâr.
18 Leah said, “God has given me my hire, because I gave my servant to my husband.” She named him Issachar.
19 And Leah conceives again, and she bears a sixth son to Jacob,
19 Y concibió Lea otra vez, y parió el sexto hijo á Jacob.
19 Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.
20 and Leah says, “God has endowed me—a good dowry; this time my husband dwells with me, for I have borne six sons to him”; and she calls his name Zebulun;
20 Y dijo Lea: Dios me ha dado una buena dote: ahora morará conmigo mi marido, porque le he parido seis hijos: y llamó su nombre Zabulón.
20 Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons.” She named him Zebulun.
21 and afterward she has borne a daughter, and calls her name Dinah.
21 Y después parió una hija, y llamó su nombre Dina.
21 Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.
22 And God remembers Rachel, and God listens to her, and opens her womb,
22 Y acordóse Dios de Rachêl, y oyóla Dios, y abrió su matriz.
22 God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.
23 and she conceives and bears a son, and says, “God has gathered up my reproach”;
23 Y concibió, y parió un hijo: y dijo: Quitado ha Dios mi afrenta:
23 She conceived, bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”
24 and she calls his name Joseph, saying, “YHWH is adding to me another son.”
24 Y llamó su nombre José, diciendo: Añádame Jehová otro hijo.
24 She named him Joseph, saying, “May Yahweh add another son to me.”
25 And it comes to pass, when Rachel has borne Joseph, that Jacob says to Laban, “Send me away, and I go to my place, and to my land;
25 Y aconteció, cuando Rachêl hubo parido á José, que Jacob dijo á Labán: Envíame, é iré á mi lugar, y á mi tierra.
25 When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.
26 give up my wives and my children, for whom I have served you, and I go; for you have known my service which I have served you.”
26 Dame mis mujeres y mis hijos, por las cuales he servido contigo, y déjame ir; pues tú sabes los servicios que te he hecho.
26 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.”
27 And Laban says to him, “Now if I have found grace in your eyes—I have observed diligently that YHWH blesses me for your sake.”
27 Y Labán le respondió: Halle yo ahora gracia en tus ojos, [y quédate]; experimentado he que Jehová me ha bendecido por tu causa.
27 Laban said to him, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake.”
28 He also says, “Define your hire to me, and I give.”
28 Y dijo: Señálame tu salario, que yo lo daré.
28 He said, “Appoint me your wages, and I will give it.”
29 And he says to him, “You have known that which I have served you [in], and that which your substance was with me;
29 Y él respondió: Tú sabes cómo te he servido, y cómo ha estado tu ganado conmigo;
29 Jacob said to him, “You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.
30 for [it is] little which you have had at my appearance, and it breaks forth into a multitude, and YHWH blesses you at my coming; and now, when do I make, I also, for my own house?”
30 Porque poco tenías antes de mi venida, y ha crecido en gran número; y Jehová te ha bendecido con mi llegada: y ahora ¿cuándo tengo de hacer yo también por mi propia casa?
30 For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?”
31 And he says, “What do I give to you?” And Jacob says, “You do not give me anything; if you do this thing for me, I turn back; I have delight; I watch your flock;
31 Y él dijo: ¿Qué te daré? Y respondió Jacob: No me des nada: si hicieres por mí esto, volveré á apacentar tus ovejas.
31 Laban said, “What shall I give you?” Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.
32 I pass through all your flock today to turn aside every speckled and spotted sheep from there, and every brown sheep among the lambs, and speckled and spotted among the goats—and it has been my hire;
32 Yo pasaré hoy por todas tus ovejas, poniendo aparte todas las reses manchadas y de color vario, y todas las reses de color oscuro entre las ovejas, y las manchadas y de color vario entre las cabras; y esto será mi salario.
32 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. This will be my hire.
33 and my righteousness has answered for me in the day to come, when it comes in for my hire before your face—everyone which is not speckled and spotted among [my] goats, and brown among [my] lambs—it is stolen with me.”
33 Así responderá por mí mi justicia mañana, cuando me viniere mi salario delante de ti: toda la que no fuere pintada ni manchada en las cabras y de color oscuro en las ovejas [mías], se me ha de tener por de hurto.
33 So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that might be with me, will be considered stolen.”
34 And Laban says, “Behold, O that it were according to your word”;
34 Y dijo Labán: Mira, ojalá fuese como tú dices.
34 Laban said, “Behold, let it be according to your word.”
35 and he turns aside during that day the striped and the spotted male goats, and all the speckled and the spotted female goats, everyone that [has] white in it, and every brown one among the lambs, and he gives into the hand of his sons,
35 Y apartó aquel día los machos de cabrío rayados y manchados; y todas las cabras manchadas y de color vario, y toda res que tenía en sí algo de blanco, y todas las de color oscuro entre las ovejas, y púsolas en manos de sus hijos;
35 That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the female 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.
36 and sets a journey of three days between himself and Jacob; and Jacob is feeding the rest of the flock of Laban.
36 Y puso tres días de camino entre sí y Jacob: y Jacob apacentaba las otras ovejas de Labán.
36 He set three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.
37 And Jacob takes to himself a rod of fresh poplar and almond and plane-tree, and peels in them white peelings, making bare the white that [is] on the rods,
37 Y tomóse Jacob varas de álamo verdes, y de avellano, y de castaño, y descortezó en ellas mondaduras blancas, descubriendo así lo blanco de las varas.
37 Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, and plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
38 and sets up the rods which he has peeled in the gutters in the watering troughs (where the flock comes to drink), in front of the flock, that they may conceive in their coming to drink;
38 Y puso las varas que había mondado en las pilas, delante del ganado, en los abrevaderos del agua donde venían á beber las ovejas, las cuales se recalentaban viniendo á beber.
38 He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink.
39 and the flocks conceive at the rods, and the flock bears striped, speckled, and spotted ones.
39 Y concebían las ovejas delante de las varas, y parían borregos listados, pintados y salpicados de diversos colores.
39 The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks produced streaked, speckled, and spotted.
40 And Jacob has parted the lambs, and he puts the face of the flock toward the striped, also all the brown in the flock of Laban, and he sets his own droves by themselves, and has not set them near Laban’s flock.
40 Y apartaba Jacob los corderos, y poníalos con su rebaño, los listados, y todo lo que era oscuro en el hato de Labán. Y ponía su hato aparte, y no lo ponía con las ovejas de Labán.
40 Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in Laban’s flock. He put his own droves apart, and didn’t put them into Laban’s flock.
41 And it has come to pass, whenever the strong ones of the flock conceive, that Jacob sets the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, to cause them to conceive by the rods,
41 Y sucedía que cuantas veces se recalentaban las tempranas, Jacob ponía las varas delante de las ovejas en las pilas, para que concibiesen á la vista de las varas.
41 Whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, Jacob laid the rods in front of the eyes of the flock in the watering troughs, that they might conceive among the rods;
42 and when the flock is feeble, he does not set [them]; and the feeble ones have been Laban’s, and the strong ones Jacob’s.
42 Y cuando venían las ovejas tardías, no las ponía: así eran las tardías para Labán, y las tempranas para Jacob.
42 but when the flock were feeble, he didn’t put them in. So the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.
43 And the man increases very exceedingly, and has many flocks, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and donkeys.
43 Y acreció el varón muy mucho, y tuvo muchas ovejas, y siervas y siervos, y camellos y asnos.
43 The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.
People & places in this chapter
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People
Asher
Second son of Zilpah, whose name means 'happy' or 'blessed.'
Cited in the guide: Genesis 30:12–13; 49:20
Bilhah
Rachel's servant who became mother of Dan and Naphtali.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 30:1-8
Dan
First son of Bilhah, whose name means 'he has judged.'
Cited in the guide: Genesis 30:1–6; 49:16–18
Dinah
The one named daughter of Jacob, at the center of a grievous episode at Shechem.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 30:21; 34
Gad
First son of Zilpah, whose name speaks of good fortune.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 30:9–11; 49:19
Issachar
A son of Leah, likened to a strong donkey bearing its burden.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 30:14–18; 49:14–15
Jacob
He wrestled with God through the night and rose as Israel, father of twelve tribes.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 25–35; 46–49
Leah
Jacob's first wife, the unloved sister who became mother of six tribes and Dinah.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 29-30
Rachel
Jacob's beloved wife, mother of Joseph and Benjamin, who died in childbirth.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 29-35
Zebulun
The last son of Leah, foretold to dwell by the seashore.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 30:19–20; 49:13
Zilpah
Leah's servant who became mother of Gad and Asher.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 30:9-13
Cross references (32)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Job 5:2; Genesis 29:31; Genesis 37:11; Proverbs 14:30; 1 Corinthians 3:3
- 2 Genesis 16:2; Psalm 127:3; 2 Kings 5:7; Genesis 50:19; 1 Samuel 1:5
- 3 Genesis 50:23; Job 3:12; Genesis 16:2–3; Genesis 30:9; Ruth 4:11
- 4 Genesis 35:22; Genesis 21:10; Genesis 22:24; Genesis 33:2; 2 Samuel 12:11
- 6 Lamentations 3:59; Psalm 43:1; Psalm 35:24; Genesis 49:16–17; Genesis 35:25
- 8 Genesis 32:24–25; Genesis 49:21; Genesis 23:6; Matthew 4:13; Deuteronomy 33:23
- 9 Genesis 30:4; Genesis 29:35; Genesis 30:17; Genesis 16:3
- 11 Genesis 49:19; Deuteronomy 33:20–21; Isaiah 65:11; Genesis 35:26; Genesis 46:16
- 13 Luke 1:48; Genesis 35:26; Genesis 49:20; Song of Songs 6:9; Proverbs 31:28
- 14 Song of Songs 7:13; Genesis 25:30
- 15 Numbers 16:13; 1 Corinthians 4:3; Numbers 16:9–10; Isaiah 7:13; Ezekiel 16:47
- 17 Exodus 3:7; 1 Samuel 1:20; 1 Samuel 1:26–27; Luke 1:13; Genesis 30:22
- 18 Genesis 49:14–15; Genesis 35:23; Deuteronomy 33:18; Genesis 46:13; 1 Chronicles 12:32
- 20 Genesis 49:13; Genesis 35:23; Matthew 4:13; Judges 5:14; Judges 4:10
- 21 Genesis 34:1–3; Genesis 34:26; Genesis 46:15
- 22 Genesis 29:31; Psalm 113:9; 1 Samuel 1:19–20; Genesis 25:21; Psalm 127:3
- 23 Luke 1:25; Genesis 29:31; Luke 1:27; 1 Samuel 1:5–6; Isaiah 4:1
- 24 Genesis 35:24; Genesis 49:22–26; Genesis 37:2; Revelation 7:8; Hebrews 11:21–22
- 25 Genesis 24:54; Genesis 24:56; Genesis 26:3; Genesis 28:15; Genesis 28:13
- 26 Genesis 29:30; Hosea 12:12; Genesis 31:6; Genesis 29:19–20; Genesis 31:31
- 27 Genesis 26:24; Isaiah 61:9; Acts 7:10; Ruth 2:13; Genesis 39:21–23
- 28 Genesis 29:15; Genesis 29:19
- 29 Genesis 31:6; Genesis 31:38–40; 1 Peter 2:18; Colossians 3:22–25; Genesis 30:5
- 30 1 Timothy 5:8; 2 Corinthians 12:14; Deuteronomy 11:10
- 31 Hebrews 13:5; Psalm 118:8; 2 Samuel 21:4–6
- 32 Genesis 31:8; Genesis 31:10; Genesis 30:35
- 33 1 Samuel 26:23; Psalm 37:6; Genesis 31:37; 2 Samuel 22:21; Isaiah 59:12
- 34 1 Corinthians 14:5; 1 Corinthians 7:7; Galatians 5:12; Numbers 22:29
- 35 Genesis 31:9
- 37 Ezekiel 31:8; Genesis 31:9–13
- 39 Exodus 12:35–36; Genesis 31:40; Genesis 31:38; Genesis 31:42; Genesis 31:9–12
- 43 Genesis 26:13–14; Genesis 24:35; Genesis 30:30; Genesis 13:2; Genesis 12:16
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