“I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” ( AC) So he slept with her that night.ġ7 God listened to Leah, ( AD) and she became pregnant and bore Jacob a fifth son. “Very well,” Rachel said, “he can sleep with you tonight in return for your son’s mandrakes.” ( AB)ġ6 So when Jacob came in from the fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him. Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”ġ5 But she said to her, “Wasn’t it enough ( AA) that you took away my husband? Will you take my son’s mandrakes too?”
( X)ġ4 During wheat harvest, ( Y) Reuben went out into the fields and found some mandrake plants, ( Z) which he brought to his mother Leah. 13 Then Leah said, “How happy I am! The women will call me ( V) happy.” ( W) So she named him Asher. ( U)ġ2 Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son. 11 Then Leah said, “What good fortune!” So she named him Gad. ( S) 10 Leah’s servant Zilpah ( T) bore Jacob a son. ( O)ĩ When Leah ( P) saw that she had stopped having children, ( Q) she took her servant Zilpah ( R) and gave her to Jacob as a wife. 8 Then Rachel said, “I have had a great struggle with my sister, and I have won.” ( N) So she named him Naphtali. ( L)ħ Rachel’s servant Bilhah ( M) conceived again and bore Jacob a second son. 6 Then Rachel said, “God has vindicated me ( J) he has listened to my plea and given me a son.” ( K) Because of this she named him Dan. ( H) Jacob slept with her, ( I) 5 and she became pregnant and bore him a son. ( F) Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and I too can build a family through her.” ( G)Ĥ So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife. ( B) So she said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I’ll die!”Ģ Jacob became angry with her and said, “Am I in the place of God, ( C) who has kept you from having children?” ( D)ģ Then she said, “Here is Bilhah, ( E) my servant. ( X) And never again will I destroy ( Y) all living creatures, ( Z) as I have done.30 When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, ( A) she became jealous of her sister. 21 The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma ( V) and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground ( W) because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. ( R) 19 All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds-everything that moves on land-came out of the ark, one kind after another.Ģ0 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord ( S) and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean ( T) birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings ( U) on it. ( P) 17 Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you-the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground-so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.” ( Q)ġ8 So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives. 14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month ( O) the earth was completely dry.ġ5 Then God said to Noah, 16 “Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. ( M) 12 He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.ġ3 By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year, ( N) the water had dried up from the earth.
11 When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth. 10 He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark. 9 But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth so it returned to Noah in the ark. ( K) 8 Then he sent out a dove ( L) to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground. ( H) 5 The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.Ħ After forty days ( I) Noah opened a window he had made in the ark 7 and sent out a raven, ( J) and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days ( E) the water had gone down, 4 and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month ( F) the ark came to rest on the mountains ( G) of Ararat. 3 The water receded steadily from the earth.
2 Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens ( C) had been closed, and the rain ( D) had stopped falling from the sky. 8 But God remembered ( A) Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, ( B) and the waters receded.