Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Genesis 30:17-27 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

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.