¹ 拉結見自己不給雅各生子，就嫉妒他姊姊，對雅各說：你給我孩子，不然我就死了。

² 雅各向拉結生氣，說：叫你不生育的是神，我豈能代替他作主呢？

³ 拉結說：有我的使女辟拉在這裡，你可以與他同房，使他生子在我膝下，我便因他也得孩子(原文作被建立)。

⁴ 拉結就把他的使女辟拉給丈夫為妾；雅各便與他同房，

⁵ 辟拉就懷孕，給雅各生了一個兒子。

⁶ 拉結說：神伸了我的冤，也聽了我的聲音，賜我一個兒子，因此給他起名叫但(就是伸冤的意思)。

⁷ 拉結的使女辟拉又懷孕，給雅各生了第二個兒子。

⁸ 拉結說：我與我姊姊大大相爭，並且得勝，於是給他起名叫拿弗他利(就是相爭的意思)。

⁹ 利亞見自己停了生育，就把使女悉帕給雅各為妾。

¹⁰ 利亞的使女悉帕給雅各生了一個兒子。

¹¹ 利亞說：萬幸！於是給他起名叫迦得(就是萬幸的意思)。

¹² 利亞的使女悉帕又給雅各生了第二個兒子。

¹³ 利亞說：我有福阿，眾女子都要稱我是有福的，於是給他起名叫亞設(就是有福的意思)。

¹⁴ 割麥子的時候，流便往田裡去，尋見風茄，拿來給他母親利亞。拉結對利亞說：請你把你兒子的風茄給我些。

¹⁵ 利亞說：你奪了我的丈夫還算小事麼？你又要奪我兒子的風茄麼？拉結說：為你兒子的風茄，今夜他可以與你同寢。

¹⁶ 到了晚上，雅各從田裡回來，利亞出來迎接他，說：你要與我同寢，因為我實在用我兒子的風茄把你雇下了。那一夜，雅各就與他同寢。

¹⁷ 神應允了利亞，他就懷孕，給雅各生了第五個兒子。

¹⁸ 利亞說：神給了我價值，因為我把使女給了我丈夫，於是給他起名叫以薩迦(就是價值的意思)。

¹⁹ 利亞又懷孕，給雅各生了第六個兒子。

²⁰ 利亞說：神賜我厚賞；我丈夫必與我同住，因我給他生了六個兒子，於是給他起名西布倫(就是同住的意思)。

²¹ 後來又生了一個女兒，給他起名叫底拿。

²² 神顧念拉結，應允了他，使他能生育。

²³ 拉結懷孕生子，說：神除去了我的羞恥，

²⁴ 就給他起名叫約瑟(就是增添的意思)，意思說：願耶和華再增添我一個兒子。

²⁵ 拉結生約瑟之後，雅各對拉班說：請打發我走，叫我回到我本鄉本土去。

²⁶ 請你把我服事你所得的妻子和兒女給我，讓我走；我怎樣服事你，你都知道。

²⁷ 拉班對他說：我若在你眼前蒙恩，請你仍與我同住，因為我已算定，耶和華賜福與我是為你的緣故；

²⁸ 又說：請你定你的工價，我就給你。

²⁹ 雅各對他說：我怎樣服事你，你的牲畜在我手裡怎樣，是你知道的。

³⁰ 我未來之先，你所有的很少，現今卻發大眾多，耶和華隨我的腳步賜福與你。如今，我甚麼時候才為自己興家立業呢？

³¹ 拉班說：我當給你甚麼呢？雅各說：甚麼你也不必給我，只有一件事，你若應承，我便仍舊牧放你的羊群。

³² 今天我要走遍你的羊群，把綿羊中凡有點的、有斑的，和黑色的，並山羊中凡有斑的、有點的，都挑出來；將來這一等的就算我的工價。

³³ 以後你來查看我的工價，凡在我手裡的山羊不是有點有斑的，綿羊不是黑色的，那就算是我偷的；這樣便可證出我的公義來。

³⁴ 拉班說：好阿！我情願照著你的話行。

³⁵ 當日，拉班把有紋的、有斑的公山羊，有點的、有斑的、有雜白紋的母山羊，並黑色的綿羊，都挑出來，交在他兒子們的手下，

³⁶ 又使自己和雅各相離三天的路程。雅各就牧養拉班其餘的羊。

³⁷ 雅各拿楊樹、杏樹、楓樹的嫩枝，將皮剝成白紋，使枝子露出白的來，

³⁸ 將剝了皮的枝子，對著羊群，插在飲羊的水溝裡和水槽裡，羊來喝的時候，牝牡配合。

³⁹ 羊對著枝子配合，就生下有紋的、有點的、有斑的來。

⁴⁰ 雅各把羊羔分出來，使拉班的羊與這有紋和黑色的羊相對，把自己的羊另放一處，不叫他和拉班的羊混雜。

⁴¹ 到羊群肥壯配合的時候，雅各就把枝子插在水溝裡，使羊對著枝子配合。

⁴² 只是到羊瘦弱配合的時候就不插枝子。這樣，瘦弱的就歸拉班，肥壯的就歸雅各。

⁴³ 於是雅各極其發大，得了許多的羊群、僕婢、駱駝，和驢。

¹ God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother."

² Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.

³ Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went."

⁴ They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.

⁵ They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn't pursue the sons of Jacob.

⁶ So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.

⁷ He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

⁸ Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth.

⁹ God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him.

¹⁰ God said to him, "Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel." He named him Israel.

¹¹ God said to him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.

¹² The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your seed after you will I give the land."

¹³ God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him.

¹⁴ Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it.

¹⁵ Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him "Bethel."

¹⁶ They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.

¹⁷ When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, for now you will have another son."

¹⁸ It happened, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.

¹⁹ Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem).

²⁰ Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel's grave to this day.

²¹ Israel traveled, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder.

²² It happened, while Israel lived in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

²³ The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

²⁴ The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

²⁵ The sons of Bilhah (Rachel's handmaid): Dan and Naphtali.

²⁶ The sons of Zilpah (Leah's handmaid): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.

²⁷ Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.

²⁸ The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years.

²⁹ Isaac gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.