¹ 雅各起行，到了東方人之地，

² 看見田間有一口井，有三群羊臥在井旁；因為人飲羊群都是用那井裡的水。井口上的石頭是大的。

³ 常有羊群在那裡聚集，牧人把石頭轉離井口飲羊，隨後又把石頭放在井口的原處。

⁴ 雅各對牧人說：弟兄們，你們是那裡來的？他們說：我們是哈蘭來的。

⁵ 他問他們說：拿鶴的孫子拉班，你們認識麼？他們說：我們認識。

⁶ 雅各說：他平安麼？他們說：平安。看哪，他女兒拉結領著羊來了。

⁷ 雅各說：日頭還高，不是羊群聚集的時候，你們不如飲羊，再去放一放。

⁸ 他們說：我們不能，必等羊群聚齊，人把石頭轉離井口才可飲羊。

⁹ 雅各正和他們說話的時候，拉結領著他父親的羊來了，因為那些羊是他牧放的。

¹⁰ 雅各看見母舅拉班的女兒拉結和母舅拉班的羊群，就上前把石頭轉離井口，飲他母舅拉班的羊群。

¹¹ 雅各與拉結親嘴，就放聲而哭。

¹² 雅各告訴拉結，自己是他父親的外甥，是利百加的兒子，拉結就跑去告訴他父親。

¹³ 拉班聽見外甥雅各的信息，就跑去迎接，抱著他，與他親嘴，領他到自己的家。雅各將一切的情由告訴拉班。

¹⁴ 拉班對他說：你實在是我的骨肉。雅各就和他同住了一個月。

¹⁵ 拉班對雅各說：你雖是我的骨肉(原文作弟兄)，豈可白白地服事我？請告訴我，你要甚麼為工價？

¹⁶ 拉班有兩個女兒，大的名叫利亞，小的名叫拉結。

¹⁷ 利亞的眼睛沒有神氣，拉結卻生得美貌俊秀。

¹⁸ 雅各愛拉結，就說：我願為你小女兒拉結服事你七年。

¹⁹ 拉班說：我把他給你，勝似給別人，你與我同住罷！

²⁰ 雅各就為拉結服事了七年；他因為深愛拉結，就看這七年如同幾天。

²¹ 雅各對拉班說：日期已經滿了，求你把我的妻子給我，我好與他同房。

²² 拉班就擺設筵席，請齊了那地方的眾人。

²³ 到晚上，拉班將女兒利亞送來給雅各，雅各就與他同房。

²⁴ 拉班又將婢女悉帕給女兒利亞作使女。

²⁵ 到了早晨，雅各一看是利亞，就對拉班說：你向我做的是甚麼事呢？我服事你，不是為拉結麼？你為甚麼欺哄我呢？

²⁶ 拉班說：大女兒還沒有給人，先把小女兒給人，在我們這地方沒有這規矩。

²⁷ 你為這個滿了七日，我就把那個也給你，你再為他服事我七年。

²⁸ 雅各就如此行。滿了利亞的七日，拉班便將女兒拉結給雅各為妻。

²⁹ 拉班又將婢女辟拉給女兒拉結作使女。

³⁰ 雅各也與拉結同房，並且愛拉結勝似愛利亞，於是又服事了拉班七年。

³¹ 耶和華見利亞失寵(原文作被恨；下同)，就使他生育，拉結卻不生育。

³² 利亞懷孕生子，就給他起名叫流便(就是有兒子的意思)，因而說：耶和華看見我的苦情，如今我的丈夫必愛我。

³³ 他又懷孕生子，就說：耶和華因為聽見我失寵，所以又賜給我這個兒子，於是給他起名叫西緬(就是聽見的意思)。

³⁴ 他又懷孕生子，起名叫利未(就是聯合的意思)，說：我給丈夫生了三個兒子，他必與我聯合。

³⁵ 他又懷孕生子，說：這回我要讚美耶和華，因此給他起名叫猶大(就是讚美的意思)。這才停了生育。

¹ Yahweh said to Noah, "Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

² You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.

³ Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.

⁴ In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground."

⁵ Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded him.

⁶ Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.

⁷ Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, because of the waters of the flood.

⁸ Clean animals, animals that are not Clean, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground

⁹ went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

¹⁰ It happened after the seven days, that the waters of the flood came on the earth.

¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows were opened.

¹² The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

¹³ In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship;

¹⁴ they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.

¹⁵ They went to Noah into the ship, by pairs of all flesh with the breath of life in them.

¹⁶ Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; and Yahweh shut him in.

¹⁷ The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.

¹⁸ The waters prevailed, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.

¹⁹ The waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.

²⁰ The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered.

²¹ All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.

²² All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.

²³ Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.

²⁴ The waters prevailed on the earth one hundred fifty days.