Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Genesis 30:7-17 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

7. And again Bala conceived and bore another,

8. For whom Rachel said: God hath compared me with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called him Nephtali.

9. Lia, perceiving that she had left off bearing, gave Zelpha her handmaid to her husband.

10. And when she had conceived and brought forth a son,

11. She said: Happily. And therefore called his name Gad.

12. Zelpha also bore another.

13. And Lia said: This is for my happiness: for women will call me blessed. Therefore she called him Aser.

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,