1 拉结见自己没有给雅各生孩子， 就嫉妒她的姊姊， 对雅各说： "你要给我儿子， 不然， 我要死了。" 2 雅各就向拉结生气， 说： "使你不能生育的是 神， 我能代替他吗？" 3 拉结说： "我的婢女辟拉在这里， 你可以与她亲近， 使她生子归我， 我就可以从她得到孩子。" 4 于是， 拉结把自己的婢女辟拉给了雅各为妾， 雅各就与她亲近。 5 辟拉怀孕， 给雅各生了一个儿子。 6 拉结说： " 神为我伸了冤， 也垂听了我的声音， 赐给我一个儿子。"所以给他起名叫但。 7 拉结的使女辟拉又怀孕， 给雅各生了第二个儿子。 8 拉结说： "我与姊姊大大地相争， 我得胜了。"于是给孩子起名叫拿弗他利。 9 利亚见自己停止生育， 就把她的婢女悉帕给了雅各为妾。 10 利亚的婢女悉帕给雅各生了一个儿子。 11 利亚说： "我真幸运。"给他起名叫迦得。 12 利亚的婢女悉帕又给雅各生了第二个儿子。 13 利亚说： "我真有福气， 众女子都要称我是有福的。"于是给孩子起名叫亚设。 14 到了收割麦子的时候， 流本出去， 在田间找到了一些风茄， 就拿来给他母亲利亚。拉结对利亚说： "请你把你儿子的风茄分一些给我。" 15 利亚回答拉结： "你夺去了我的丈夫， 还算小事吗？你还要夺去我儿子的风茄吗？"拉结说： "好吧， 今夜就让他与你同睡， 来交换你儿子的风茄。" 16 到了晚上， 雅各从田间回来， 利亚出去迎接他， 说： "你要与我亲近， 因为我实在用我儿子的风茄把你雇下了。"那一夜， 雅各就与利亚同睡。 17 神垂听了利亚的祷告， 利亚就怀孕， 给雅各生了第五个儿子。 18 利亚说： " 神给了我酬报， 因为我把我的婢女给了我的丈夫。"于是给孩子起名叫以萨迦。 19 利亚又怀孕， 给雅各生了第六个儿子。 20 利亚说： " 神把美好的礼物送了给我， 这一次我的丈夫要抬举我了， 因为我给他生了六个儿子。"于是给孩子起名叫西布伦。 21 后来利亚又生了一个女儿， 给她起名叫底拿。 22 神顾念拉结， 垂听了她的祷告， 使她能生育。 23 拉结就怀孕， 生了一个儿子， 说： " 神把我的耻辱除去了。" 24 于是给孩子起名叫约瑟， 说： "愿耶和华再给我一个儿子。" 25 拉结生了约瑟以后， 雅各对拉班说： "请你让我走吧， 我好回到自己的地方， 自己的故乡去。 26 请你把我服事你所得的妻子和儿女都给我， 让我回去； 我怎样服事了你， 你是知道的。" 27 拉班对他说： "我若蒙你赏脸， 请你不要走， 因为我得了神旨， 知道耶和华赐福给我， 是因你的缘故。" 28 他又说： "请你定你的工资吧， 我必给你。" 29 雅各对拉班说： "我怎样服事了你， 你的牲畜在我手里情形怎样， 你是知道的。 30 我没来以前， 你所有的很少， 现在却大大地增加了； 耶和华随着我的脚踪赐福给你。现在， 我什么时候才能兴家立业呢？" 31 拉班问： "我该给你什么？"雅各回答： "你什么也不必给我； 只要你答应我这一件事， 我就继续牧放看守你的羊群。 32 今天我要走遍你的羊群， 凡有斑点的羊、黑色的绵羊和有斑点的山羊， 都挑出来， 作为我的工资。 33 日后你来查看我的工资的时候， 我好对你证明我的公道。凡在我手里没有斑点的山羊， 或不是黑色的绵羊， 都算是我偷来的。" 34 拉班回答： "好吧， 就照你的话去作。" 35 当日， 拉班把有条纹和有斑点的公山羊、有斑点和有白纹的母山羊， 以及所有黑色的绵羊， 都挑出来交在自己的众子手里。 36 又使自己和雅各之间相距有三天的路程。雅各就牧放拉班其余的羊群。 37 雅各拿杨树、杏树和枫树的嫩枝子， 把树皮剥成白色的条纹， 使枝子露出白的部分来。 38 然后把剥了皮的枝子插在水沟和水槽里， 枝子正对着来喝水的羊群。羊群来喝水的时候， 就彼此交配。 39 羊群对着枝子交配， 就生下有条纹和有斑点的小羊来。 40 雅各把羊羔分别出来， 使拉班的羊， 对着这些有条纹的和所有黑色的羊。他为自己另组羊群， 不把它们放在拉班的羊群中。 41 到了肥壮的羊群要交配的时候， 雅各就在羊群的面前把枝子插在水沟里， 使它们在枝子中间彼此交配。 42 但当瘦弱的羊群交配的时候， 雅各就不插枝子。这样， 瘦弱的就归拉班， 肥壮的就归雅各。 43 于是， 雅各变成非常富有， 拥有很多羊群、仆婢、骆驼和驴。

1 And Rachel seeth that she hath not borne to Jacob, and Rachel is envious of her sister, and saith unto Jacob, `Give me sons, and if there is none -- I die.`2 And Jacob`s anger burneth against Rachel, and he saith, `Am I in stead of God who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?`3 And she saith, `Lo, my handmaid Bilhah, go in unto her, and she doth bear on my knees, and I am built up, even I, from her;`4 and she giveth to him Bilhah her maid-servant for a wife, and Jacob goeth in unto her;5 and Bilhah conceiveth, and beareth to Jacob a son,6 and Rachel saith, `God hath decided for me, and also hath hearkened to my voice, and giveth to me a son;` therefore hath she called his name Dan.7 And Bilhah, Rachel`s maid-servant, conceiveth again, and beareth a second son to Jacob,8 and Rachel saith, `With wrestlings of God I have wrestled with my sister, yea, I have prevailed;` and she calleth his name Napthali.9 And Leah seeth that she hath ceased from bearing, and she taketh Zilpah her maid-servant, and giveth her to Jacob for a wife;10 and Zilpah, Leah`s maid-servant, beareth to Jacob a son,11 and Leah saith, `A troop is coming;` and she calleth his name Gad.12 And Zilpah, Leah`s maid-servant, beareth a second son to Jacob,13 and Leah saith, `Because of my happiness, for daughters have pronounced me happy;` and she calleth his name Asher.14 And Reuben goeth in the days of wheat-harvest, and findeth love-apples in the field, and bringeth them in unto Leah, his mother, and Rachel saith unto Leah, `Give to me, I pray thee, of the love-apples of thy son.`15 And she saith to her, `Is thy taking my husband a little thing, that thou hast taken also the love-apples of my son?` and Rachel saith, `Therefore doth he lie with thee to-night, for thy son`s love-apples.`16 And Jacob cometh in from the field at evening; and Leah goeth to meet him, and saith, `Unto me dost thou come in, for hiring I have hired thee with my son`s love-apples;` and he lieth with her during that night.17 And God hearkeneth unto Leah, and she conceiveth, and beareth to Jacob a son, a fifth,18 and Leah saith, `God hath given my hire, because I have given my maid-servant to my husband;` and she calleth his name Issachar.19 And conceive again doth Leah, and she beareth a sixth son to Jacob,20 and Leah saith, `God hath endowed me -- a good dowry; this time doth my husband dwell with me, for I have borne to him six sons;` and she calleth his name Zebulun;21 and afterwards hath she born a daughter, and calleth her name Dinah.22 And God remembereth Rachel, and God hearkeneth unto her, and openeth her womb,23 and she conceiveth and beareth a son, and saith, `God hath gathered up my reproach;`24 and she calleth his name Joseph, saying, `Jehovah is adding to me another son.`25 And it cometh to pass, when Rachel hath borne Joseph, that Jacob saith unto Laban, `Send me away, and I go unto my place, and to my land;26 give up my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and I go; for thou -- thou hast known my service which I have served thee.`27 And Laban saith unto him, `If, I pray thee, I have found grace in thine eyes -- I have observed diligently that Jehovah doth bless me for thy sake.`28 He saith also, `Define thy hire to me, and I give.`29 And he saith unto him, `Thou -- thou hast known that which I have served thee [in], and that which thy substance was with me;30 for [it is] little which thou hast had at my appearance, and it breaketh forth into a multitude, and Jehovah blesseth thee at my coming; and now, when do I make, I also, for mine own house?`31 And he saith, `What do I give to thee?` And Jacob saith, `Thou dost not give me anything; if thou do for me this thing, I turn back; I have delight; thy flock I watch;32 I pass through all thy flock to-day to turn aside from thence every sheep speckled and spotted, and every brown sheep among the lambs, and speckled and spotted among the goats -- and it hath been my hire;33 and my righteousness hath answered for me in the day to come, when it cometh in for my hire before thy face; -- every one which is not speckled and spotted among [my] goats, and brown among [my] lambs -- it is stolen with me.`34 And Laban saith, `Lo, O that it were according to thy word;`35 and he turneth aside during that day the ring-straked and the spotted he-goats, and all the speckled and the spotted she-goats, every one that [hath] white in it, and every brown one among the lambs, and he giveth into the hand of his sons,36 and setteth a journey of three days between himself and Jacob; and Jacob is feeding the rest of the flock of Laban.37 And Jacob taketh to himself a rod of fresh poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut, and doth peel in them white peelings, making bare the white that [is] on the rods,38 and setteth up the rods which he hath peeled in the gutters in the watering troughs (when the flock cometh in to drink), over-against the flock, that they may conceive in their coming in to drink;39 and the flocks conceive at the rods, and the flock beareth ring-straked, speckled, and spotted ones.40 And the lambs hath Jacob parted, and he putteth the face of the flock towards the ring-straked, also all the brown in the flock of Laban, and he setteth his own droves by themselves, and hath not set them near Laban`s flock.41 And it hath come to pass whenever the strong ones of the flock conceive, that Jacob set the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, to cause them to conceive by the rods,42 and when the flock is feeble, he doth not set [them]; and the feeble ones have been Laban`s, and the strong ones Jacob`s.43 And the man increaseth very exceedingly, and hath many flocks, and maid-servants, and men-servants, and camels, and asses.