1 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die. 2 And Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God’s stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb? 3 And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her. 4 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her. 5 And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son. 6 And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan. 7 And Bilhah Rachel’s maid conceived again, and bare 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’s maid bare Jacob a son. 11 And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad. 12 And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare 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 unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son’s mandrakes. 15 And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son’s mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son’s mandrakes. 16 And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son’s mandrakes. And he lay with her that night. 17 And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son. 18 And Leah said, God hath 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 bare Jacob the sixth son. 20 And Leah said, God hath 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 bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
22 And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb. 23 And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath 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 unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country. 26 Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee. 27 And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake. 28 And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it. 29 And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me. 30 For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also? 31 And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock: 32 I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence 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 thy 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 thy 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 betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s 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 unto Laban’s cattle. 41 And it came to pass, whensoever 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’s, and the stronger Jacob’s. 43 And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.
1 En toe Ragel sien dat sy vir Jakob geen kinders baar nie, het Ragel jaloers geword op haar suster en aan Jakob gesê: Gee vir my kinders of anders sterf ek.
2 Toe het Jakob kwaad geword vir Ragel en gevra: Is ek dan in die plek van God wat die vrug van die skoot aan jou onthou het?
3 En sy antwoord: Daar is my slavin Bilha; gaan by haar in, dat sy op my knieë kan baar en ek ook uit haar gebou kan word.
4 Daarop het sy aan hom haar slavin Bilha as vrou gegee, en Jakob het by haar ingegaan.
5 En Bilha het swanger geword en vir Jakob 'n seun gebaar.
6 Toe sê Ragel: God het aan my reg verskaf en my ook verhoor en my 'n seun gegee. Daarom het sy hom Dan genoem.
7 En Bilha, die slavin van Ragel, het weer bevrug geword en vir Jakob 'n tweede seun gebaar.
8 Toe sê Ragel: Ek het bomenslike worstelinge met my suster geworstel en ook oorwin. En sy het hom N ftali genoem.
9 En toe Lea sien dat sy opgehou het met baar, neem sy haar slavin Silpa en gee haar aan Jakob as vrou.
10 En Silpa, die slavin van Lea, het vir Jakob 'n seun gebaar.
11 Toe sê Lea: Gelukkig! En sy het hom Gad genoem.
12 Daarna het Silpa, die slavin van Lea, vir Jakob 'n tweede seun gebaar.
13 Toe sê Lea: Ek, gelukkige! want die dogters sal my gelukkig prys. En sy het hom Aser genoem.
14 En Ruben het in die dae van die koringoes gegaan en in die veld liefdesappels gevind en die na sy moeder Lea gebring. Toe sê Ragel vir Lea: Gee my tog van jou seun se liefdesappels.
15 Maar sy antwoord haar: Is dit nie genoeg dat jy my man geneem het nie, dat jy ook my seun se liefdesappels wil neem? En Ragel sê: Daarom mag hy vir jou seun se liefdesappels vannag by jou slaap.
16 Toe Jakob dan die aand uit die veld kom, gaan Lea hom tegemoet met die woorde: Jy moet na my kom, want ek het jou eerlik gehuur vir my seun se liefdesappels. En hy het die nag by haar geslaap.
17 En God het Lea verhoor: sy het bevrug geword en vir Jakob 'n vyfde seun gebaar.
18 Toe sê Lea: God het my loon gegee, omdat ek my slavin aan my man gegee het. En sy het hom Issaskar genoem.
19 En Lea het weer bevrug geword en vir Jakob 'n sesde seun gebaar.
20 Toe sê Lea: God het my 'n mooi geskenk gegee; nou sal my man eindelik by my woon, want ek het vir hom ses seuns gebaar. En sy het hom S,bulon genoem.
21 En daarna het sy 'n dogter gebaar en haar Dina genoem.
22 En God het aan Ragel gedink, en God het haar verhoor en haar skoot geopen:
23 sy het bevrug geword en 'n seun gebaar. Toe sê sy: God het my smaad weggeneem.
24 En sy het hom Josef genoem en gesê: Mag die HERE vir my 'n ander seun daar byvoeg!
25 En nadat Ragel Josef gebaar het, sê Jakob vir Laban: Laat my trek, dat ek na my woonplek en my land kan gaan.
26 Gee my vroue en my kinders waarvoor ek u gedien het, dat ek kan gaan; want u weet self hoe ek u gedien het.
27 Daarop antwoord Laban hom: As ek nou guns in jou oë gevind het -- ek het waargeneem dat die HERE my om jou ontwil geseënhet.
28 Verder sê hy: Bepaal vir my jou loon, en ek sal dit gee.
29 Toe antwoord hy hom: U weet self hoe ek u gedien het en wat u vee by my geword het.
30 Want min was dit wat u voor my koms gehad het, en dit het sterk vermeerder; en die HERE het u geseënop my voetspoor. Wanneer sal ek dan nou ook vir my huis werk?
31 En hy vra: Wat moet ek jou gee? Toe antwoord Jakob: U hoef my niks te gee nie. As u hierdie ding vir my wil doen, wil ek weer u kleinvee oppas, ja, versorg --
32 ek sal vandag deur al u kleinvee deurgaan en daaruit al die gestippelde en bont vee uitkeer; al die vee onder die skaaplammers wat swart is, en die bontes en gestippeldes onder die bokke, dit moet my loon wees.
33 En my regverdigheid sal later vir my getuig: as u kom om my loon na te gaan, sal alles wat nie gestippel of bont is onder die bokke, en wat nie swart is onder die skaaplammers nie, gesteelde goed by my wees.
34 Toe antwoord Laban: Goed, laat dit wees volgens jou woord!
35 En hy het dieselfde dag uitgekeer die gestreepte en bont bokke en al die gestippelde en bont bokooie, almal wat wit aan hulle gehad het, en almal wat swart was onder die skaaplammers, en die aan sy seuns afgegee.
36 En hy het 'n afstand van drie dae bepaal tussen hom en Jakob; en Jakob het die orige kleinvee van Laban opgepas.
37 Toe neem Jakob vir hom groen latte van populier--, amandel-- en plataanhout, en hy skil daarin wit strepe, sodat die wit van die latte uitkom;
38 en hy sit die latte wat hy geskil het, vlak voor die vee in die trogge, in die drinkbakke waar die vee kom drink het; en hulle het verhit geword as hulle kom drink.
39 En die vee het verhit geword by die latte, en die vee het gelam gestreeptes, gestippeldes en bontes.
40 Toe skei Jakob die lammers, en hy draai die koppe van die vee na die gestreeptes en almal wat swart was onder Laban se vee. En hy het vir hom afsonderlike troppe gemaak en die nie onder Laban se vee gesit nie.
41 En elke keer as die sterkste diere verhit word, sit Jakob die latte voor die oë van die vee in die trogge, sodat hulle verhit sou word by die latte.
42 Maar as die vee swakkerig was, het hy dit nie ingesit nie; so was dan die swakkes vir Laban en die sterkes vir Jakob.
43 En die man het buitengewoon uitgebrei en baie kleinvee en slavinne en slawe en kamele en esels gehad.