1 Vendo Raquel que não dava filhos a Jacó, teve ciúmes de sua irmã e disse a Jacó: Dá-me filhos, senão morrerei. 2 Então, Jacó se irou contra Raquel e disse: Acaso, estou eu em lugar de Deus que ao teu ventre impediu frutificar? 3 Respondeu ela: Eis aqui Bila, minha serva; coabita com ela, para que dê à luz, e eu traga filhos ao meu colo, por meio dela. 4 Assim, lhe deu a Bila, sua serva, por mulher; e Jacó a possuiu. 5 Bila concebeu e deu à luz um filho a Jacó. 6 Então, disse Raquel: Deus me julgou, e também me ouviu a voz, e me deu um filho; portanto, lhe chamou Dã. 7 Concebeu outra vez Bila, serva de Raquel, e deu à luz o segundo filho a Jacó. 8 Disse Raquel: Com grandes lutas tenho competido com minha irmã e logrei prevalecer; chamou-lhe, pois, Naftali.
9 Vendo Lia que ela mesma cessara de conceber, tomou também a Zilpa, sua serva, e deu-a a Jacó, por mulher. 10 Zilpa, serva de Lia, deu a Jacó um filho. 11 Disse Lia: Afortunada! E lhe chamou Gade. 12 Depois, Zilpa, serva de Lia, deu o segundo filho a Jacó. 13 Então, disse Lia: É a minha felicidade! Porque as filhas me terão por venturosa; e lhe chamou Aser.
14 Foi Rúben nos dias da ceifa do trigo, e achou mandrágoras no campo, e trouxe-as a Lia, sua mãe. Então, disse Raquel a Lia: Dá-me das mandrágoras de teu filho. 15 Respondeu ela: Achas pouco o me teres levado o marido? Tomarás também as mandrágoras de meu filho? Disse Raquel: Ele te possuirá esta noite, a troco das mandrágoras de teu filho. 16 À tarde, vindo Jacó do campo, saiu-lhe ao encontro Lia e lhe disse: Esta noite me possuirás, pois eu te aluguei pelas mandrágoras de meu filho. E Jacó, naquela noite, coabitou com ela. 17 Ouviu Deus a Lia; ela concebeu e deu à luz o quinto filho. 18 Então, disse Lia: Deus me recompensou, porque dei a minha serva a meu marido; e chamou-lhe Issacar. 19 E Lia, tendo concebido outra vez, deu a Jacó o sexto filho. 20 E disse: Deus me concedeu excelente dote; desta vez permanecerá comigo meu marido, porque lhe dei seis filhos; e lhe chamou Zebulom. 21 Depois disto, deu à luz uma filha e lhe chamou Diná. 22 Lembrou-se Deus de Raquel, ouviu-a e a fez fecunda. 23 Ela concebeu, deu à luz um filho e disse: Deus me tirou o meu vexame. 24 E lhe chamou José, dizendo: Dê-me o Senhor ainda outro filho.
25 Tendo Raquel dado à luz a José, disse Jacó a Labão: Permite-me que eu volte ao meu lugar e à minha terra. 26 Dá-me meus filhos e as mulheres, pelas quais eu te servi, e partirei; pois tu sabes quanto e de que maneira te servi.
27 Labão lhe respondeu: Ache eu mercê diante de ti; fica comigo. Tenho experimentado que o Senhor me abençoou por amor de ti. 28 E disse ainda: Fixa o teu salário, que te pagarei. 29 Disse-lhe Jacó: Tu sabes como te venho servindo e como cuidei do teu gado. 30 Porque o pouco que tinhas antes da minha vinda foi aumentado grandemente; e o Senhor te abençoou por meu trabalho. Agora, pois, quando hei de eu trabalhar também por minha casa? 31 Então, Labão lhe perguntou: Que te darei? Respondeu Jacó: Nada me darás; tornarei a apascentar e a guardar o teu rebanho, se me fizeres isto: 32 Passarei hoje por todo o teu rebanho, separando dele os salpicados e malhados, e todos os negros entre os cordeiros, e o que é malhado e salpicado entre as cabras; será isto o meu salário. 33 Assim, responderá por mim a minha justiça, no dia de amanhã, quando vieres ver o meu salário diante de ti; o que não for salpicado e malhado entre as cabras e negro entre as ovelhas, esse, se for achado comigo, será tido por furtado. 34 Disse Labão: Pois sim! Seja conforme a tua palavra. 35 Mas, naquele mesmo dia, separou Labão os bodes listados e malhados e todas as cabras salpicadas e malhadas, todos os que tinham alguma brancura e todos os negros entre os cordeiros; e os passou às mãos de seus filhos. 36 E pôs a distância de três dias de jornada entre si e Jacó; e Jacó apascentava o restante dos rebanhos de Labão.
37 Tomou, então, Jacó varas verdes de álamo, de aveleira e de plátano e lhes removeu a casca, em riscas abertas, deixando aparecer a brancura das varas, 38 as quais, assim escorchadas, pôs ele em frente do rebanho, nos canais de água e nos bebedouros, aonde os rebanhos vinham para dessedentar-se, e conceberam quando vinham a beber. 39 E concebia o rebanho diante das varas, e as ovelhas davam crias listadas, salpicadas e malhadas. 40 Então, separou Jacó os cordeiros e virou o rebanho para o lado dos listados e dos pretos nos rebanhos de Labão; e pôs o seu rebanho à parte e não o juntou com o rebanho de Labão. 41 E, todas as vezes que concebiam as ovelhas fortes, punha Jacó as varas à vista do rebanho nos canais de água, para que concebessem diante das varas. 42 Porém, quando o rebanho era fraco, não as punha; assim, as fracas eram de Labão, e as fortes, de Jacó. 43 E o homem se tornou mais e mais rico; teve muitos rebanhos, e servas, e servos, e camelos, e jumentos.
1 And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said to Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
2 And Jacob' anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God' stead, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?
3 And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in to her; and she shall bear on my knees, that I may also have children by her.
4 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in to her.
5 And Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.
6 And Rachel said, God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.
7 And Bilhah Rachel' maid conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.
8 And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.
9 When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
10 And Zilpah Leah' maid bore Jacob a son.
11 And Leah said, A troop comes: and she called his name Gad.
12 And Zilpah Leah' maid bore Jacob a second son.
13 And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.
14 And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray you, of your son' mandrakes.
15 And she said to her, Is it a small matter that you have taken my husband? and would you take away my son' mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with you to night for your son' mandrakes.
16 And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, You must come in to me; for surely I have hired you with my son' mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.
17 And God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob the fifth son.
18 And Leah said, God has given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.
19 And Leah conceived again, and bore Jacob the sixth son.
20 And Leah said, God has endued me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun.
21 And afterwards she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
22 And God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.
23 And she conceived, and bore a son; and said, God has taken away my reproach:
24 And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son.
25 And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.
26 Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served you, and let me go: for you know my service which I have done you.
27 And Laban said to him, I pray you, if I have found favor in your eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that the LORD has blessed me for your sake.
28 And he said, Appoint me your wages, and I will give it.
29 And he said to him, You know how I have served you, and how your cattle was with me.
30 For it was little which you had before I came, and it is now increased to a multitude; and the LORD has blessed you since my coming: and now when shall I provide for my own house also?
31 And he said, What shall I give you? And Jacob said, You shall not give me any thing: if you will do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep your flock.
32 I will pass through all your flock to day, removing from there all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.
33 So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before your face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
34 And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to your word.
35 And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
36 And he set three days'journey between himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban' flocks.
37 And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
38 And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.
39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
40 And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not to Laban' cattle.
41 And it came to pass, whenever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.
42 But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban', and the stronger Jacob'.
43 And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.