¹ Mozė ir Aaronas atėję tarė faraonui: “Taip sako Viešpats Izraelio Dievas: ‘Išleisk mano tautą, kad jie aukotų man dykumoje’ ”.

² Faraonas atsakė: “Kas yra jūsų Viešpats, kad klausyčiau Jo balso ir išleisčiau Izraelį? Aš nepažįstu Viešpaties ir neišleisiu Izraelio”.

³ Jie sakė: “Hebrajų Dievas mus pašaukė. Prašome, leisk mums keliauti tris dienas į dykumą ir ten aukoti Viešpačiui, mūsų Dievui, kad Jis nebaustų mūsų maru ar kardu”.

⁴ Egipto karalius jiems atsakė: “Moze ir Aaronai, kodėl atitraukiate žmones nuo jų darbų? Eikite savo darbų dirbti!

⁵ Matote, kiek daug žmonių yra krašte, o jūs atitraukiate juos nuo darbų”.

⁶ Tą pačią dieną faraonas įsakė darbų prievaizdams ir vadovams:

⁷ “Nebeduokite, kaip iki šiol, žmonėms šiaudų plytoms gaminti: jie patys tegul eina ir prisirenka šiaudų.

⁸ Tačiau reikalaukite iš jų tokio pat plytų skaičiaus, kokį jie lig šiol pagamindavo, jo nesumažinkite, nes jie dykinėja ir todėl šaukia: ‘Išleisk mus aukoti savo Dievui!’

⁹ Duokite jiems daugiau darbo; tegul dirba ir nepaiso tuščių kalbų”.

¹⁰ Darbų prievaizdai ir vadovai išėję kalbėjo: “Taip sako faraonas: ‘Aš nebeduosiu jums šiaudų.

¹¹ Eikite ir rinkite, kur rasite! Tačiau turėsite padaryti tiek, kiek ir anksčiau’ ”.

¹² Žmonės išsisklaidė po visą Egipto šalį rinkti ražienų vietoje šiaudų.

¹³ Prievaizdai spaudė juos, sakydami: “Atlikite dienai skirtą darbą, kaip anksčiau, kai gaudavote šiaudų”.

¹⁴ Ir izraelitus, kuriuos faraono prievaizdai buvo paskyrę darbų prižiūrėtojais, mušė, sakydami: “Kodėl vakar ir šiandien nepagaminote nustatyto plytų kiekio kaip anksčiau?”

¹⁵ Izraelitų prižiūrėtojai atėjo verkdami ir skundėsi faraonui: “Kodėl taip elgiesi su savo tarnais?

¹⁶ Šiaudų nebeduoda, o mums liepia gaminti plytas. Be to, tavo tarnai dar mušami, nors kalti dėl to yra tavo žmonės”.

¹⁷ Jis atsakė: “Jūs vien tik dykinėjate. Todėl sakote: ‘Išleisk mus aukoti Viešpačiui!’

¹⁸ Taigi dabar eikite, dirbkite! Šiaudų jums neduos, tačiau nustatytą plytų kiekį privalote padaryti”.

¹⁹ Izraelitų prižiūrėtojai matė esą patekę į sunkią padėtį, nes jiems buvo pasakyta: “Nemažinkite dienai skirto plytų kiekio”.

²⁰ Išėję iš faraono, jie susitiko Mozę ir Aaroną, kurie jų laukė,

²¹ ir tarė jiems: “Viešpats tepažvelgia ir tegul teisia! Jūs sukėlėte faraono bei jo tarnų neapykantą mums, įduodami kardą į jų ranką, kad mus išžudytų”.

²² Mozė kreipėsi į Viešpatį: “Viešpatie, kodėl taip piktai pasielgei su šitais žmonėmis? Kodėl siuntei mane?

²³ Nuo to laiko, kai nuėjau pas faraoną kalbėti Tavo vardu, jis dar blogiau elgiasi su mano tauta. Tu neišvadavai savo tautos”.

¹ Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.

² He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well's mouth was large.

³ There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the well's mouth in its place.

⁴ Jacob said to them, "My relatives, where are you from?" They said, "We are from Haran."

⁵ He said to them, "Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?" They said, "We know him."

⁶ He said to them, "Is it well with him?" They said, "It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep."

⁷ He said, "Behold, it is still the middle of the day, not time to gather the livestock together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them."

⁸ They said, "We can't, until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well's mouth. Then we water the sheep."

⁹ While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she kept them.

¹⁰ It happened, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.

¹¹ Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.

¹² Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son. She ran and told her father.

¹³ It happened, when Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister's son, that he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.

¹⁴ Laban said to him, "Surely you are my bone and my flesh." He lived with him for a month.

¹⁵ Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?"

¹⁶ Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

¹⁷ Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.

¹⁸ Jacob loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter."

¹⁹ Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me."

²⁰ Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

²¹ Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her."

²² Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

²³ It happened in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her.

²⁴ Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Leah for a handmaid.

²⁵ It happened in the morning that, behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Didn't I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?"

²⁶ Laban said, "It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.

²⁷ Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years."

²⁸ Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.

²⁹ Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his handmaid, to be her handmaid.

³⁰ He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

³¹ Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

³² Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, "Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me."

³³ She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, "Because Yahweh has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also." She named him Simeon.

³⁴ She conceived again, and bore a son. Said, "Now this time will my husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons." Therefore was his name called Levi.

³⁵ She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, "This time will I praise Yahweh." Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.