THE TORAH
GENESIS
BEREISHIT
The book of Bereishit (also known as Genesis) is the first book of the Torah. It begins with the creation of the world by G-d in six days. After creating the earth, G-d brings forth Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. The first humans are quickly banished from the garden after breaking G-d’s commandment and eating from the Tree of Knowledge. The lineage of humanity is established as the book chronicles the descendants of Adam and Eve. The narrative follows the lives of well-known figures such as Cain and Abel, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph. The book explores themes of human nature, morality, and faith, as well as the relationship between G-d and humanity. The book ends with the descendants of Abraham settling in Egypt, setting the stage for the following book in the Torah, Exodus.
Chapter 30
Chapter 30 of Genesis on Rachel
It is not a smooth sail for both sisters.
Envy and competition are in exchange constantly.
Indeed no one is sinless, even among G-d’s chosen people.
To the extent of correcting or preventing further deceit, a deceit is used by Jacob himself in this chapter.
“Rachel Conceived”
“Joseph is Born”
Rachel saw that she had not borne children to Jacob, so Rachel became envious of her sister; she said to Jacob, “Give me children – otherwise I am dead.”
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She said, “Here is my maid Bilhah, consort with her, that she may bear upon my knees and I too may built up through her.”
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Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.
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Then Rachel said, “God has judged me, He has also heard my voice and has given me a son.” She therefore called his name Dan.
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When Leah saw that she had stopped giving birth, she took Zilpah her maidservant and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
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Zilpah, Leah’s maidservant, bore Jacob a son.
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And Leah declared, “Good luck has come!” So she called his name Gad.
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God remembered Rachel; God hearkened to her and He opened her womb.
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She conceived and bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my disgrace.”
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Let my integrity testify for me in the future when it comes before you regarding my wage; any among the goats that is not speckled or spotted, or among the sheep that is not brownish, is stolen, if in my possession.”
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The man became exceedingly prosperous and he attained fecund flocks, maidservants and servants, camels and donkeys.
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1 And Rachel saw that she had not borne [any children] to Jacob, and Rachel envied her sister, and she said to Jacob, “Give me children, and if not, I am dead.”
2 And Jacob became angry with Rachel, and he said, “Am I instead of God, Who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”
3 So she said, “Here is my maidservant Bilhah; come to her, and she will bear [children] on my knees, so that I, too, will be built up from her.”
4 So she gave him her maidservant Bilhah for a wife, and Jacob came to her.
5 And Bilhah conceived, and she bore Jacob a son.
6 And Rachel said, “God has judged me, and He has also hearkened to my voice and has given me a son”; so she named him Dan.
7 And Bilhah, Rachel’s maidservant, conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.
8 And Rachel said, “[With] divine bonds I have been joined to my sister; I have also prevailed”; so she named him Naftali.
9 When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing [children], she took her maidservant Zilpah, and gave her to Jacob for a wife.
10 And Zilpah, Leah’s maidservant, bore Jacob a son.
11 And Leah said, “Luck has come”; so she named him Gad.
12 And Zilpah, Leah’s maidservant, bore Jacob a second son.
13 And Leah said, “Because of my good fortune, for women have declared me fortunate”; so she named him Asher.
14 Reuben went in the days of the wheat harvest, and he found dudaim in the field and brought them to Leah, his mother, and Rachel said to Leah, “Now give me some of your son’s dudaim.”
15 And she said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken my husband, that [you wish] also to take my son’s dudaim?” So Rachel said, “Therefore, he shall sleep with you tonight as payment for your son’s dudaim.”
16 When Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah came forth toward him, and she said, “You shall come to me, because I have hired you with my son’s dudaim,” and he slept with her on that night.
17 And God hearkened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.
18 And Leah said, “God has given [me] my reward for I have given my maidservant to my husband”; so she named him Issachar.
19 And Leah conceived again, and she bore Jacob a sixth son.
20 And Leah said, “God has given me a good portion. This time, my husband will live with me, for I have borne him six sons”; so she named him Zebulun.
21 And afterwards, she bore a daughter, and she named her Dinah.
22 And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and He opened her womb.
23 And she conceived and bore a son, and she said, “God has taken away my reproach.”
24 So she named him Joseph, saying, “May the Lord grant me yet another son!”
25 It came to pass when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, and I will go to my place and to my land.
26 Give [me] my wives and my children for whom I worked for you, and I will go, for you know my work, which I have worked for you.”
27 And Laban said to him, “If only I have now found favor in your eyes! I have divined, and the Lord has blessed me for your sake.”
28 Then he said, “Specify your wages for me, and I will give [them].”
29 And he said to him, “You know how I have worked for you and how your livestock was with me.
30 For the little that you had before me has increased in multitude, and the Lord blessed you upon my arrival; but now, when will I, too, provide [something] for my household? “
31 And he said, “What shall I give you?” And Jacob said, “You shall give me nothing; if you do this thing for me, I will return, I will pasture your flocks, [and] I will watch [them].
32 I will pass throughout all your flocks today, removing from there every speckled and spotted kid, and every brown lamb among the sheep, and [every] spotted and speckled [one from] among the goats, and this shall be my wages.
33 And my righteousness will testify for me at a future date for it will come upon my wages before you. Whatever is not speckled or spotted among the goats or brown among the sheep [shall be counted as] stolen with me.”
34 And Laban said, “Very well! If only it would be as you say!”
35 And he removed on that day the ringed and the spotted male goats and all the speckled and spotted female goats, whichever had white on it, and all the brown [from] among the sheep, and he gave [them] into the hands of his sons.
36 And he set three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob tended Laban’s remaining animals.
37 And Jacob took himself moist rod[s] of trembling poplar and hazelnut, and chestnut, and he peeled white streaks upon them, baring the white that was on the rods.
38 And he thrust the rods that he had peeled, into the gutters in the watering troughs where the animals would come to drink opposite the [other] animals, and they would come into heat when they came to drink.
39 And the flocks came into heat by the rods, and the animals bore ringed, spotted, and striped [young].
40 And Jacob separated the sheep, and he turned the faces of the animals toward the ringed one[s] and every brown one among Laban’s animals, and he made himself flocks by himself, and he did not place them with Laban’s animals.
41 And it came to pass, that whenever the animals that were bearing their first would come into heat, Jacob would place the rods in the troughs, before the eyes of the animals, [in order] to bring them into heat by [means of] the rods.
42 But if the animals would delay, he would not place them, so that the ones that delayed were Laban’s, and the ones that bore their first became Jacob’s.
43 And the man became exceedingly wealthy, and he had prolific animals, and maidservants and manservants, and camels and donkeys.
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