1 E vendo Raquel que não gerava filhos a Jacó, Raquel teve inveja de sua irmã, e disse a Jacó: Dá-me filhos, ou eu morrerei.2 E se acendeu a ira de Jacó contra Raquel, e ele disse: Estou eu no lugar de Deus, que de ti reteve o fruto do útero?3 E ela disse: Eis aí minha serva Bila; entra nela, e ela gerará sobre os meus joelhos, para que eu também possa ter filhos por meio dela.4 E ela deu sua serva Bila a ele por mulher; e Jacó entrou nela.5 E Bila concebeu, e gerou um filho a Jacó.6 E Raquel disse: Deus me julgou, e também ouviu a minha voz, e me deu um filho; por isso ela chamou o seu nome Dã.7 E Bila, serva de Raquel, concebeu novamente, e gerou um segundo filho a Jacó.8 E Raquel disse: Com grandes lutas eu tenho lutado com minha irmã, e eu prevaleci; e ela chamou o seu nome Naftali.9 Vendo Lia que ela tinha parado de gerar, ela tomou sua serva Zilpa e a deu a Jacó por mulher.10 E Zilpa, serva de Lia, gerou um filho a Jacó.11 E Lia disse: Vem uma tropa; e ela chamou o seu nome Gade.12 E Zilpa, serva de Lia, gerou a Jacó um segundo filho.13 E Lia disse: Eu sou feliz, pois as filhas me chamarão abençoada; e ela chamou seu nome Aser.14 E Rúben foi nos dias da colheita de trigo, e encontrou mandrágoras no campo, e as trouxe à sua mãe Lia. Então, Raquel disse a Lia: Dá-me, rogo-te, das mandrágoras de teu filho.15 E ela lhe disse: Seria pequena coisa que tomaste o meu marido? Agora tomarias também as mandrágoras de meu filho? E Raquel disse: Ele poderá deitar-se contigo esta noite pelas mandrágoras de teu filho.16 E Jacó veio do campo à tarde, e Lia foi ao seu encontro e disse: Tu deves entrar a mim; porque certamente eu te aluguei pelas mandrágoras de meu filho. E ele se deitou com ela naquela noite.17 E Deus ouviu a Lia, e ela concebeu e gerou a Jacó o quinto filho.18 E Lia disse: Deus me deu meu pagamento, porque eu dei a minha serva a meu marido; e ela chamou o seu nome Issacar.19 E Lia concebeu novamente, e gerou a Jacó o sexto filho.20 E Lia disse: Deus me dotou com boa dádiva; agora o meu marido habitará comigo, porque lhe gerei seis filhos; e ela chamou o seu nome Zebulom.21 E depois ela gerou uma filha, e chamou o seu nome Diná.22 E Deus se lembrou de Raquel, e Deus a ouviu, e abriu o seu útero.23 E ela concebeu, e gerou um filho, e disse: Deus removeu a minha vergonha.24 E ela chamou o seu nome José, e disse: O SENHOR me acrescentará outro filho.25 E aconteceu que, quando Raquel gerou José, Jacó disse a Labão: Envia-me, para que eu possa ir ao meu próprio lugar e à minha terra.26 Dá-me minhas mulheres e meus filhos, pelos quais eu te servi, e deixa-me ir, pois tu sabes o serviço que eu tenho feito a ti.27 E Labão lhe disse: Peço-te, se encontrei favor aos teus olhos, fica; pois eu tenho aprendido por experiência que o SENHOR me abençoou por tua causa.28 E ele disse: Determina o teu salário, e eu o darei.29 E ele lhe disse: Tu sabes como eu te servi, e como teu gado estava comigo.30 Porque era pouco o que tinhas antes da minha vinda, e agora cresceu para uma multidão; e o SENHOR te abençoou desde a minha vinda. E agora, quando deverei prover também para a minha casa?31 E ele disse: O que eu te darei? E Jacó disse: Tu não me darás nada. Se fizeres esta coisa por mim, eu alimentarei e guardarei o teu rebanho novamente.32 Passarei por todo o teu rebanho hoje, removendo dele todo o gado salpicado e malhado, e todos os marrons entre as ovelhas, e o salpicado e malhado entre as cabras, e de tais será o meu salário.33 Assim, a minha justiça responderá por mim no tempo vindouro, quando vieres ver o meu salário diante da tua face; todo o que não for salpicado ou malhado entre as cabras, e marrom entre as ovelhas, isto será contado como furto comigo.34 E Labão disse: Eis que possa ser conforme a tua palavra.35 E ele separou naquele dia os bodes que eram listrados e malhados, e todas as cabras que eram salpicadas e malhadas, e tudo que tinha algum branco, e tudo o que era marrom entre as ovelhas, e os deu nas mãos de seus filhos.36 E ele estabeleceu três dias de jornada entre si e Jacó, e Jacó alimentava o restante dos rebanhos de Labão.37 E Jacó tomou para si varas verdes de álamo, e de aveleira, e de castanheiro, e descascou nelas riscas brancas, e fez aparecer o branco que estava nas varas.38 E colocou as varas que havia descascado diante dos rebanhos nos cochos e nos bebedouros aonde os rebanhos vinham para beber, para que concebessem quando viessem para beber.39 E os rebanhos concebiam diante das varas, e davam crias listradas, salpicadas e malhadas.40 E Jacó separou os cordeiros, e colocou as faces do rebanho para os listrados, e todo marrom no rebanho de Labão. E ele separou seus próprios rebanhos, e não os colocou entre o rebanho de Labão.41 E aconteceu que, quando o rebanho forte concebia, Jacó colocava as varas diante dos olhos do rebanho nos bebedouros, para que eles pudessem conceber entre as varas.42 Mas quando o rebanho era fraco, ele não os colocava. Assim os fracos eram de Labão, e os fortes de Jacó.43 E o homem cresceu grandemente, e possuía muitos rebanhos, e servas, e servos, e camelos, e jumentos.
1 Now when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel was jealous of her sister, and said to Jacob, Give me sons, or if not I shall die!2 And Jacobs anger burned against Rachel, and he said, Am I in the place of God, 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 give birth on my knees, that I also may be built up by her.4 And she gave him Bilhah her maid as wife, and Jacob went in to her.5 And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.6 And Rachel said, God has judged my case, and has also heard my voice and given me a son. Therefore she called his name Dan.7 And Rachels maid Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.8 And Rachel said, With great wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed. So she called his name Naphtali.9 And when Leah saw that she had stopped giving birth, she took Zilpah her maid and gave her to Jacob as wife.10 And Leahs maid Zilpah bore Jacob a son.11 And Leah said, Good fortune has come! So she called his name Gad.12 And Leahs maid Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.13 And Leah said, I am happy, for the daughters shall call me blessed. So 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. And Rachel said to Leah, Please give me some of your sons mandrakes.15 And she said to her, Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my sons mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your sons mandrakes.16 When Jacob came out of the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, You must come in to me, for hiring I have hired you with my sons mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.17 And God gave heed to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.18 And Leah said, God has given me my wages, because I have given my maid to my husband. So she called his name Issachar.19 And Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a sixth son.20 And Leah said, God has endowed me with a good endowment; this time my husband will dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons. So she called his name Zebulun.21 And afterward she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah.22 And God remembered Rachel, and God gave heed to her and opened her womb.23 And she conceived and bore a son, and said, God has taken away my reproach.24 So she called his name Joseph, and said, Jehovah shall add to me another son.25 And it came to pass, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, Send me away, that I may go to my own place and to my own land.26 Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you.27 And Laban said to him, Please stay, if I have found favor in your eyes, for I have observed the signs that Jehovah has blessed me because of you.28 And he said, Specify your wages to me, and I will give it.29 So Jacob said to him, You know how I have served you and how your livestock is with me.30 For what you had before I came was little, and it has increased into a multitude; Jehovah has blessed you since I stepped foot here. And now, when shall I also provide for my own house?31 So he said, What shall I give you? And Jacob said, You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will turn back to feed and keep your flocks:32 Let me pass through all your flock today, removing from there all the speckled and spotted sheep, and all the brown ones among the lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and these shall be my wages.33 So my righteousness shall testify for me in time to come, when the subject of my wages comes before you: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the lambs, will be considered stolen, if it is with me.34 And Laban said, Oh, that it were according to your word!35 So he removed that day the male goats that were speckled and spotted, all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had some white in it, and all the brown ones among the lambs, and gave them into the hand of his sons.36 And he put three days journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Labans flocks.37 And Jacob took for himself rods of green poplar and of the almond and plane trees, peeled white strips in them, and laid bare the white which was in the rods.38 And the rods which he had peeled, he set before the flocks in the troughs, in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink, so that they should come into heat when they came to drink.39 And the flocks mated before the rods, and the flocks gave birth to streaked, speckled, and spotted.40 And Jacob separated the lambs, and made the flocks face toward the streaked and all the brown in the flock of Laban; but he put his own flocks by themselves and did not put them with Labans flock.41 And it came to pass, whenever the stronger livestock were in heat, that Jacob placed the rods before the eyes of the livestock in the troughs, that they might mate among the rods.42 And when the flocks were feeble, he did not put them in; so the feebler were Labans and the stronger Jacobs.43 And the man increased exceedingly greatly, and had many cattle, female and male servants, and camels and donkeys.