The 30th Chapter
     When Rahel saw that she bare Jacob no children, she envied her sister, and said unto Jacob: give me children, or else I am but dead. Then was Jacob wroth with Rahel saying: Am I in Gods stead which keeps from you the fruit of your womb? Then she said: here is my maid Bilha: go in unto her, that she may bear upon my lap, that I may be increased by her. And she gave him Bilha her handmaid to wife. And Jacob went in unto her: And Bilha conceived and bare Jacob a son. Then said Rahel: God has given sentence on my side, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son. Therefore called she him Dan. And Bilha Rahels maid conceived again, and bare Jacob another son. And Rahel said. God is turned, and I have made a change with my sister, and have gotten the upper hand. And she called his name: Naphtali.
     When Lea saw that she had left bearing, she took Silpha her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife. And Silpha Leas maid bare Jacob a son. Then said Lea: Good luck: and called his name Gad. And Silpha Leas maid bare Jacob another son. Then said Lea: happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed. And called his name Asser.
     And Ruben went out in the wheat harvest and found mandragoras in the fields, and brought them unto his mother Lea. Then said Rahel to Lea give me of your sons mandragoras. And Lea answered: Is it not enough, that you have taken away my husband, but would take away my sons mandragoras also? Then said Rahel: well, let him sleep with you this night, for your sons mandragoras. And when Jacob came from the fields at even, Lea went out to meet him, and said: come in to me, for I have bought you with my sons mandragoras.
     And he slept with her that night. And God heard Lea, that she conceived and bare unto Jacob the fifth son. Then said Lea: God has given me my reward, because I gave my maiden to my husband, and she called him Isachar. And Lea conceived yet again, and bare Jacob the sixth son. Then said she: God has endued me with good dowry. Now will my husband dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons: and called his name Zabulon. After that she bare a daughter, and called her Dina.
     And God remembered Rahel, heard her, and made her fruitful: so that she conceived and bare a son, and said: God has taken away my rebuke. And she called his name Joseph saying: The Lord give me yet another son. As soon as Rahel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban: Send me away that I may go unto mine own place and country, give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go: for you know what service I have done you. Then said Laban unto him: If I have found favour in your sight (for I suppose that the Lord has blessed me for your sake) appoint what your reward shall be, and I will give it you. But he said unto him: you know what service I have done you, and in what taking your cattle have been under me: For it was but little that you had before I came, and now it is increased into a multitude, and the Lord has blessed you for my sake. But now when shall I make provision for mine own house also? And he said: what shall I give you? And Jacob answered: you shall give me nothing at all, if you will do this one thing for me: And then will I turn again, and feed your sheep and keep them.
     I will go about all your sheep this day, and separate from them all the sheep that are spotted and of diverse colors, and all black sheep among the lambs, and the party and spotted among the kids: And the same shall be my reward. So shall my righteousness answer for me: when the time comes that I shall receive my reward of you: So that whatsoever is not speckled and party among the goats and black among the lambs, let that be theft with me. Then said Laban: Lo, I am content, that it be according as you have said. And he took out that same day the he goats that were party and of diverse colors, and all the goats that were spotted and party colored, and all that had white in them, and all the black among the lambs: and put them in the keeping of his sons, and set three days journey between himself and Jacob. And so Jacob kept the rest of Labans sheep.
     Jacob took rods (thin branch) of green poplar, hazel,(lt/yellow brown) and of chestnut (reddish brown) trees, and pilled (peeled) white streaks in them and made the white appear in the staves: And he put the staves which he had pilled, even before the sheep, in the gutters and watering troughs, when the sheep came to drink: that they should conceive when they came to drink. And the sheep conceived before the staves, and brought forth streaked, spotted and party. Then Jacob parted the lambs and turned the faces of the sheep toward spotted things, and toward all manner of black things throughout the flocks of Laban. And he made him flocks of his own by them self, which he put not unto the flocks of Laban. And always in the first bucking time of the sheep, Jacob put the staves before the sheep in the gutters, that they might conceive before the staves: But in the latter bucking time, he put them not there: so the last brood was Labans and the first Jacobs. And the man became exceeding rich and had many sheep, maidservants, menservants, camels and asses.

The 31st Chapter
     And Jacob heard the words of Labans sons how they said: Jacob has taken away all that was our fathers, and of our fathers goods, has he gotten all this honor. And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, that it was not toward him as it was in times past. And the Lord said unto Jacob: turn again into the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you. Then Jacob sent and called Rahel and Lea to the field unto his sheep, and said unto them: I see your fathers countenance that it is not toward me as in times past. Moreover the God of my father has been with me. And you know how that I have served your father with all my might. And your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times: But God allowed him not to hurt me. When he said, the spotted shall be your wages, then all the sheep bare spotted. If he said, the streaked shall be your reward, then bare all the sheep streaked: thus has God taken away your fathers cattle and given them me. For in bucking time, I lifted up mine eyes and saw in a dream, and behold, the rams that bucked the sheep were streaked, spotted and party. And the angel of God spoke unto me in a dream saying: Jacob? And I answered: here am I. And he said: lift up your eyes and see, how all the rams that leap upon the sheep are streaked, spotted and party: for I have seen all that Laban does unto you. I am the God of Bethel where you anointed the stone, and where you vowed a vow unto me. Now arise and get you out of this country, and return unto the land where you was born.
     Then answered Rahel and Lea, and said unto him: we have no part nor inheritance in our fathers house: he counts us even as strangers, for he has sold us, and has even eaten up the price of us. Moreover all the riches which God has taken from our father, that is ours and our childrens. Now therefore whatsoever God has said unto you, that do. Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and wives up upon camels, and carried away all his cattle and all his substance which he had gotten in Mesopotamia, for to go to Isaac his father unto the land of Canaan. Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rahel had stolen her fathers images. And Jacob stale away the heart of Laban the Sirian, and told him not that he fled. So fled he and all that he had, and made himself ready, and passed over the rivers, and set his face straight toward the mount Gilead.
     Upon the third day after, was it told Laban that Jacob was fled. Then he
took his brethren with him and followed after him seven days journey, and overtook him at the mount Gilead. And God came to Laban the Sirian in a dream by night, and said unto him: take heed to yourself, that you speak not to Jacob anything save good. And Laban overtook Jacob: and Jacob had pitched his tent in that mount. And Laban with his brethren pitched their tent also upon the mount Gilead. Then said Laban to Jacob: why have you this done to steal away my heart, and carry away my daughters as though they had been taken captive with sword? Wherefore went you away secretly unknown to me, and did not tell me, that I might have brought you on the way with mirth, singing, timbrels and harps, and have not allowed me to kiss my children and my daughters? You was a fool to do it, for I am able to do you evil. But the God of your father spoke unto me yesterday saying: take heed that you speak not to Jacob anything save good. And now though you went your way because you long after your fathers house, yet wherefore have you stolen my gods?
     Jacob answered and said to Laban: because I was afraid, and thought that you would have taken away your daughters from me. But with whomsoever you find your gods, let him die here before our brethren. Seek that your is by me, and take it to you: for Jacob knew not that Rahel had stolen them. Then went Laban into Jacobs tent, and into Leas tent, and into two maidens tents: but found them not. Then went he out of Leas tent, and entered into Rahels tent. And Rahel took the images, and put them in the camels straw, and sat down upon them. And Laban searched all the tent: but found them not. Then said she to her father: my lord, be not angry that I cannot rise up before you, for the disease of women is come upon me. So searched he, but found them not.
     Jacob was wroth, and chode (scold mildly) with Laban. Jacob also answered and said to him: what have I trespassed or what have I offended, that you followed after me? You have searched all my stuff, and what have you found of all your household stuff? put it here before your brethren and mine, and let them judge between us both. This twenty years that I have been with you, your sheep and your goats have not been barren, and the rams of your flock have I not eaten. Whatsoever was torn of beasts I brought it not unto you, but made it good myself: of my hand did you require it, whether it was stolen by day or night. Moreover by day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night, and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
     Thus have I been twenty years in your house, and served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your sheep, and you have changed my reward ten times. And except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the God whom Isaac fears had been with me: surely you had sent me away now all empty. But God beheld my tribulation, and the labor of my hands: and rebuked you yesterday.
     Laban answered and said unto Jacob: the daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the sheep are my sheep, and all that you see is mine. And what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born? Now therefore come on, let us make a bond, I and you together, and let it be a witness between you and me. Then took Jacob a stone and set it up on end, and said unto his brethren, gather stones. And they took stones, and made an heap, and they ate there upon the heap. And Laban called it Zegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called Gilead.
     Then said Laban: this heap be witness between you and me this day (therefore is it called Gilead) and this toot hill which the Lord sees (said he) be witness between me and you when we are departed one from another: that you shall not vex my daughters neither shall take other wives unto them. Here is no man with us: behold, God is witness between you and me. And Laban said moreover to Jacob: behold, this heap and this mark which I have set here, between me and you: this heap be witness and also this mark, that I will not come over this heap to you, and you shall not come over this heap and this mark, to do any harm. The God of Abraham, the God of Nahor, and the God of their fathers, be judge between us.
     And Jacob sware by him that his father Isaac feared. Then Jacob did sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread. And they ate bread and tarried all night in the hill. And early in the morning Laban rose up and kissed his children and his daughters, and blessed them and departed and went unto his place again. But Jacob went forth on his journey. And the angels of God came and met him. And when Jacob saw them, he said: this is Gods host: and called the name of that same place, Mahanaim.