Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Genesis 30:14-29 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

14. And Ruben, going out in the time of the wheat harvest into the field, found mandrakes: which he brought to his mother Lia. And Rachel said: Give me part of thy son's mandrakes.

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 mandrakes? Rachel said: He shall sleep with thee this night, for thy son's mandrakes.

16. And when Jacob returned at even from the field, Lia went out to meet him, and said: Thou shalt come in unto me, because I have hired thee for my son's mandrakes. And he slept with her that night.

17. And God heard her prayers: and she conceived and bore 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. And Lia conceived again, and bore the sixth son,

20. And said: God hath endowed me with a good dowry: this turn also my husband will be with me, because I have borne him six sons: and therefore she called his name Zabulon.

21. After whom she bore a daughter, named Diana.

22. The Lord also remembering Rachel, heard her, and opened her womb.

23. And she conceived, and bore a son, saying: God hath taken my reproach.

24. And she called his name Joseph, saying: The Lord give me also another son.

25. And when Joseph was born, Jacob said to his father in law: Send me away that I may return into my country, and to my land.

26. Give me my wives, and my children, for whom I have served thee, that I may depart: thou knowest the service that I have rendered thee.

27. Laban said to him: Let me find favour in thy sight: I have learned by experience, that God hath blessed me for thy sake.

28. Appoint thy wages which I shall give thee.

29. But he answered: Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how great thy possession hath been in my hands.