Rachel offers her handmaid to Jacob and two sons are born. Leah desires more children and offers her handmaid to her husband, and the latter bears two more sons. Leah produces another two sons and a daughter, and Rachel herself bears a son. Jacob desires to return home, but Laban is reluctant to release him. Laban offers to pay Jacob, and Jacob suggests that Laban remove all the spotted, speckled and brown goats and sheep from the flock; whichever ones would be born after that would be Jacob's wages. Jacob plants rods of poplar, hazel, and chestnut in front of the flocks' watering holes, and the animals give birth to spotted, speckled and brown foals. Thus Jacob becomes quite wealthy.
PEOPLE: Rachel - Jacob - Bilhah - Dan - Naphtali - Leah - Zilpah - Gad - Asher - )|Reuben - יהוה YHWH God - Issachar - Zebulun - Dinah - Joseph - Laban
PLACES: Laban resides in Haran (Genesis 29)
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