Douay Rheims Original ↷
Genesis 30 📜 📕 ↷
Dan and Naphtali
1 AND Rachel seeing she was unfruitful, envied her sister, and said to her husband: Give me children, otherwise I shall die.📜💬📚
2 With whom Jacob being angry answered: Am I as God, who hath deprived thee of the fruit of thy womb?📜💬📚
3 But she said: I have here my servant Bala: Company with her, that she may bear upon my knees, and I may have children of her.📜💬📚
4 And she gave him Bala unto marriage: who,📜💬📚
5 When her husband had companied with her, conceived and bare a son.📜💬📚
6 And Rachel said: Our Lord hath judged for me and hath heard my voice, giving me a son, and therefore she called his name, Dan.📜💬📚
7 And again Bala conceiving bare another,📜💬📚
8 for whom Rachel said: God hath compared me with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called him Nephthali.📜💬📚
Gad and Asher
9 Lia perceiving that she had left bearing, delivered Zelpha her handmaid to her husband.📜💬📚
10 Who conceiving and bringing forth a son,📜💬📚
11 she said: Happily. And therefore called his name Gad.📜💬📚
12 Zelpha also bare an other.📜💬📚
13 And Lia said: This is for my blessedness: for women will call me blessed. Therefore she called him Aser.📜💬📚
14 And Ruben, going forth in the time of wheat harvest into the field, found mandragoras: which he brought to his mother Lia. And Rachel said: Give me part of thy son's mandragoras.📜💬📚
15 She answered: Dost thou think it a small matter that thou hast taken my husband from me, unless thou take also my son's mandragoras? Rachel said: For thy son's mandragoras let him sleep with thee this night.📜💬📚
16 And when Jacob returned at even from the field, Lia went out to meet him, and said: Company with me, because with wages I have hired thee for my son's mandragoras. And he slept with her that night.📜💬📚
Issachar, Zebulun, and Dinah
17 And God heard her prayers: and she conceived and bare the fifth son,📜💬📚
18 And said: God hath given me a reward, because I gave my handmaid to my husband. And she called his name Issachar.📜💬📚
19 Again Lia conceiving, bare the sixth son,📜💬📚
20 & said: God hath endowed me with a good dowry: this turn also my husband will be with me, for because I have born him six sons, and therefore she called his name, Zabulon.📜💬📚
21 After whom she bare a daughter named Dina.📜💬📚
Joseph
22 Our Lord also remembering Rachel heard her, and opened her womb.📜💬📚
23 Who conceived and bare a son, saying: God hath taken away my reproach.📜💬📚
24 And she called his name, Joseph, saying: Our Lord add to me an other son.📜💬📚
Jacob Prospers
25 And when Joseph was born, Jacob said to his father in law: Dismiss me that I may return into my country, and to my land.📜💬📚
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