Genesis

1拉结见自己不给雅各生子，就嫉妒她姊姊，对雅各说：「你给我孩子，不然我就死了。」

2雅各向拉结生气，说：「叫你不生育的是 神，我岂能代替他作主呢？」

3拉结说：「有我的使女辟拉在这里，你可以与她同房，使她生子在我膝下，我便因她也得孩子。」

4拉结就把她的使女辟拉给丈夫为妾；雅各便与她同房，

5辟拉就怀孕，给雅各生了一个儿子。

6拉结说：「 神伸了我的冤，也听了我的声音，赐我一个儿子」，因此给他起名叫但。

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：「我与我姊姊大大相争，并且得胜」，于是给他起名叫拿弗他利。

9利亚见自己停了生育，就把使女悉帕给雅各为妾。

10利亚的使女悉帕给雅各生了一个儿子。

11利亚说：「万幸！」于是给他起名叫迦得。

12利亚的使女悉帕又给雅各生了第二个儿子。

13利亚说：「我有福啊，众女子都要称我是有福的」，于是给他起名叫亚设。

14割麦子的时候，吕便往田里去，寻见风茄，拿来给他母亲利亚。拉结对利亚说：「请你把你儿子的风茄给我些。」

15利亚说：「你夺了我的丈夫还算小事吗？你又要夺我儿子的风茄吗？」拉结说：「为你儿子的风茄，今夜他可以与你同寝。」

16到了晚上，雅各从田里回来，利亚出来迎接他，说：「你要与我同寝，因为我实在用我儿子的风茄把你雇下了。」那一夜，雅各就与她同寝。

17神应允了利亚，她就怀孕，给雅各生了第五个儿子。

18利亚说：「 神给了我价值，因为我把使女给了我丈夫」，于是给他起名叫以萨迦。

19利亚又怀孕，给雅各生了第六个儿子。

20利亚说：「 神赐我厚赏；我丈夫必与我同住，因我给他生了六个儿子」，于是给他起名西布伦。

21后来又生了一个女儿，给她起名叫底拿。

22神顾念拉结，应允了她，使她能生育。

23拉结怀孕生子，说：「 神除去了我的羞耻」，

24就给他起名叫约瑟，意思说：「愿耶和华再增添我一个儿子。」

雅各和拉班定工价

25拉结生约瑟之后，雅各对拉班说：「请打发我走，叫我回到我本乡本土去。

26请你把我服事你所得的妻子和儿女给我，让我走；我怎样服事你，你都知道。」

27拉班对他说：「我若在你眼前蒙恩，请你仍与我同住，因为我已算定，耶和华赐福与我是为你的缘故」；

28又说：「请你定你的工价，我就给你。」

29雅各对他说：「我怎样服事你，你的牲畜在我手里怎样，是你知道的。

30我未来之先，你所有的很少，现今却发大众多，耶和华随我的脚步赐福与你。如今，我什么时候才为自己兴家立业呢？」

31拉班说：「我当给你什么呢？」雅各说：「什么你也不必给我，只有一件事，你若应承，我便仍旧牧放你的羊群。

32今天我要走遍你的羊群，把绵羊中凡有点的、有斑的，和黑色的，并山羊中凡有斑的、有点的，都挑出来；将来这一等的就算我的工价。

33以后你来查看我的工价，凡在我手里的山羊不是有点有斑的，绵羊不是黑色的，那就算是我偷的；这样便可证出我的公义来。」

34拉班说：「好啊！我情愿照着你的话行。」

35当日，拉班把有纹的、有斑的公山羊，有点的、有斑的、有杂白纹的母山羊，并黑色的绵羊，都挑出来，交在他儿子们的手下，

36又使自己和雅各相离三天的路程。雅各就牧养拉班其余的羊。

37雅各拿杨树、杏树、枫树的嫩枝，将皮剥成白纹，使枝子露出白的来，

38将剥了皮的枝子，对着羊群，插在饮羊的水沟里和水槽里，羊来喝的时候，牝牡配合。

39羊对着枝子配合，就生下有纹的、有点的、有斑的来。

40雅各把羊羔分出来，使拉班的羊与这有纹和黑色的羊相对，把自己的羊另放一处，不叫他和拉班的羊混杂。

41到羊群肥壮配合的时候，雅各就把枝子插在水沟里，使羊对着枝子配合。

42只是到羊瘦弱配合的时候就不插枝子。这样，瘦弱的就归拉班，肥壮的就归雅各。

43于是雅各极其发大，得了许多的羊群、仆婢、骆驼，和驴。

1When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”

2Jacob’s anger burnt against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

3She said, “Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her.”

4She gave him Bilhah her servant as wife, and Jacob went in to her.

5Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.

6Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son.” Therefore she called his name Dan.

7Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.

8Rachel said, “I have wrestled with my sister with mighty wrestlings, and have prevailed.” She named him Naphtali.

9When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her servant, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

10Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a son.

11Leah said, “How fortunate!” She named him Gad.

12Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a second son.

13Leah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy.” She named him Asher.

14Reuben 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, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

15Leah said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes, also?” Rachel said, “Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son’s mandrakes.”

16Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, “You must come in to me; for I have surely hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” He lay with her that night.

17God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.

18Leah said, “God has given me my hire, because I gave my servant to my husband.” She named him Issachar.

19Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.

20Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons.” She named him Zebulun.

21Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.

22God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

23She conceived, bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”

24She named him Joseph,saying, “May the LORD add another son to me.”

25When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.

26Give 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.”

27Laban said to him, “If now I have found favour in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that the LORD has blessed me for your sake.”

28He said, “Appoint me your wages, and I will give it.”

29Jacob said to him, “You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.

30For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. The LORD has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?”

31Laban said, “What shall I give you?” Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.

32I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one amongst the sheep, and the spotted and speckled amongst the goats. This will be my hire.

33So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted amongst the goats, and black amongst the sheep, that might be with me, will be considered stolen.”

34Laban said, “Behold, let it be according to your word.”

35That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones amongst the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.

36He set three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.

37Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, and plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.

38He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink.

39The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks produced streaked, speckled, and spotted.

40Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks towards the streaked and all the black in Laban’s flock. He put his own droves apart, and didn’t put them into Laban’s flock.

41Whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, Jacob laid the rods in front of the eyes of the flock in the watering troughs, that they might conceive amongst the rods;

42but when the flock were feeble, he didn’t put them in. So the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.

43The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.