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Zelpha, too, bore Jacob a second son, (Genesis 30, 12)
What, answered she, art thou not content with stealing my husband from me? Must thou have my son’s mandrake fruit as well? And Rachel said, Jacob shall sleep with thee to-night, if I may have some of thy son’s mandrake-fruit. (Genesis 30, 15)
So, when Jacob came back from work at evening, Lia went out to meet him; Thou art to share my bed to-night, she told him; I have paid thy hire with the mandrake fruit which my son found. So he slept with her that night; (Genesis 30, 16)
After Joseph’s birth, Jacob said to his father-in-law, Give me leave to go back home, to my own country. (Genesis 30, 25)
None knows better than thou, answered Jacob, how hard I have worked for thee, and how these herds of thine have increased under my care. (Genesis 30, 29)
Jacob, then, left in charge of the rest of the flocks, did this. He took green branches of poplar, and almond, and plane, and partly peeled them; so that (now the bark had gone) the white shewed through where they had been stripped, whereas the parts he had left untouched remained green; everywhere the colour was varied. (Genesis 30, 37)
There, then, were the two flocks divided, and there were Jacob’s branches set up before the very eyes of the rams. All the white (sheep) and all the black (goats) were to be Laban’s, the rest Jacob’s, when the flocks were sorted afresh. (Genesis 30, 40)
but when the later breeding happened, and the time for conceiving was at an end, he put the branches there no longer. So all the late-bred (weaklings) belonged to Laban, and all the (strong) early-bred belonged to Jacob.✻ (Genesis 30, 42)
Meanwhile, Laban’s sons were complaining, Our father has been robbed of all his goods by Jacob, who has become rich at his expense. (Genesis 31, 1)
Jacob was aware of this; he found, too, that Laban looked on him more coldly than hitherto. (Genesis 31, 2)
Upon this, Jacob waited no longer; he mounted his children and wives on the camels, and set out on his journey; (Genesis 31, 17)
Jacob had given his father-in-law no warning of his flight, (Genesis 31, 20)
