¹ 雅各起行，到了东方人之地，

² 看见田间有一口井，有三群羊卧在井旁；因为人饮羊群都是用那井里的水。井口上的石头是大的。

³ 常有羊群在那里聚集，牧人把石头转离井口饮羊，随後又把石头放在井口的原处。

⁴ 雅各对牧人说：弟兄们，你们是那里来的？他们说：我们是哈兰来的。

⁵ 他问他们说：拿鹤的孙子拉班，你们认识麽？他们说：我们认识。

⁶ 雅各说：他平安麽？他们说：平安。看哪，他女儿拉结领着羊来了。

⁷ 雅各说：日头还高，不是羊群聚集的时候，你们不如饮羊，再去放一放。

⁸ 他们说：我们不能，必等羊群聚齐，人把石头转离井口才可饮羊。

⁹ 雅各正和他们说话的时候，拉结领着他父亲的羊来了，因为那些羊是他牧放的。

¹⁰ 雅各看见母舅拉班的女儿拉结和母舅拉班的羊群，就上前把石头转离井口，饮他母舅拉班的羊群。

¹¹ 雅各与拉结亲嘴，就放声而哭。

¹² 雅各告诉拉结，自己是他父亲的外甥，是利百加的儿子，拉结就跑去告诉他父亲。

¹³ 拉班听见外甥雅各的信息，就跑去迎接，抱着他，与他亲嘴，领他到自己的家。雅各将一切的情由告诉拉班。

¹⁴ 拉班对他说：你实在是我的骨肉。雅各就和他同住了一个月。

¹⁵ 拉班对雅各说：你虽是我的骨肉(原文作弟兄)，岂可白白地服事我？请告诉我，你要甚麽为工价？

¹⁶ 拉班有两个女儿，大的名叫利亚，小的名叫拉结。

¹⁷ 利亚的眼睛没有神气，拉结却生得美貌俊秀。

¹⁸ 雅各爱拉结，就说：我愿为你小女儿拉结服事你七年。

¹⁹ 拉班说：我把他给你，胜似给别人，你与我同住罢！

²⁰ 雅各就为拉结服事了七年；他因为深爱拉结，就看这七年如同几天。

²¹ 雅各对拉班说：日期已经满了，求你把我的妻子给我，我好与他同房。

²² 拉班就摆设筵席，请齐了那地方的众人。

²³ 到晚上，拉班将女儿利亚送来给雅各，雅各就与他同房。

²⁴ 拉班又将婢女悉帕给女儿利亚作使女。

²⁵ 到了早晨，雅各一看是利亚，就对拉班说：你向我做的是甚麽事呢？我服事你，不是为拉结麽？你为甚麽欺哄我呢？

²⁶ 拉班说：大女儿还没有给人，先把小女儿给人，在我们这地方没有这规矩。

²⁷ 你为这个满了七日，我就把那个也给你，你再为他服事我七年。

²⁸ 雅各就如此行。满了利亚的七日，拉班便将女儿拉结给雅各为妻。

²⁹ 拉班又将婢女辟拉给女儿拉结作使女。

³⁰ 雅各也与拉结同房，并且爱拉结胜似爱利亚，於是又服事了拉班七年。

³¹ 耶和华见利亚失宠(原文作被恨；下同)，就使他生育，拉结却不生育。

³² 利亚怀孕生子，就给他起名叫流便(就是有儿子的意思)，因而说：耶和华看见我的苦情，如今我的丈夫必爱我。

³³ 他又怀孕生子，就说：耶和华因为听见我失宠，所以又赐给我这个儿子，於是给他起名叫西缅(就是听见的意思)。

³⁴ 他又怀孕生子，起名叫利未(就是联合的意思)，说：我给丈夫生了三个儿子，他必与我联合。

³⁵ 他又怀孕生子，说：这回我要赞美耶和华，因此给他起名叫犹大(就是赞美的意思)。这才停了生育。

¹ He brought me back to the door of the house; and behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward; (for the forefront of the house was toward the east;) and the waters came down from under, from the right side of the house, on the south of the altar.

² Then he brought me out by the way of the gate northward, and led me round by the way outside to the outer gate, by the way of [the gate] that looks toward the east; and behold, there ran out waters on the right side.

³ When the man went forth eastward with the line in his hand, he measured one thousand cubits, and he caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the ankles.

⁴ Again he measured one thousand, and caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the knees. Again he measured one thousand, and caused me to pass through [the waters], waters that were to the waist.

⁵ Afterward he measured one thousand; [and it was] a river that I could not pass through; for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed through.

⁶ He said to me, Son of man, have you seen [this]? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the bank of the river.

⁷ Now when I had returned, behold, on the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.

⁸ Then he said to me, These waters issue forth toward the eastern region, and shall go down into the Arabah; and they shall go toward the sea; into the sea [shall the waters go] which were made to issue forth; and the waters shall be healed.

⁹ It shall happen, that every living creature which swarms, in every place where the rivers come, shall live; and there shall be a very great multitude of fish; for these waters are come there, and [the waters of the sea] shall be healed, and everything shall live wherever the river comes.

¹⁰ It shall happen, that fishermen shall stand by it: from En Gedi even to En Eglaim shall be a place for the spreading of nets; their fish shall be after their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.

¹¹ But the miry places of it, and its marshes, shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt.

¹² By the river on its bank, on this side and on that side, shall grow every tree for food, whose leaf shall not wither, neither shall its fruit fail: it shall bring forth new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary; and its fruit shall be for food, and its leaf for healing.

¹³ Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This shall be the border, by which you shall divide the land for inheritance according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph [shall have two] portions.

¹⁴ You shall inherit it, one as well as another; for I swore to give it to your fathers: and this land shall fall to you for inheritance.

¹⁵ This shall be the border of the land: On the north side, from the great sea, by the way of Hethlon, to the entrance of Zedad;

¹⁶ Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer Hatticon, which is by the border of Hauran.

¹⁷ The border from the sea, shall be Hazar Enon at the border of Damascus; and on the north northward is the border of Hamath. This is the north side.

¹⁸ The east side, between Hauran and Damascus and Gilead, and the land of Israel, shall be the Jordan; from the [north] border to the east sea you shall measure. This is the east side.

¹⁹ The south side southward shall be from Tamar as far as the waters of Meriboth Kadesh, to the brook [of Egypt], to the great sea. This is the south side southward.

²⁰ The west side shall be the great sea, from the [south] border as far as over against the entrance of Hamath. This is the west side.

²¹ So you shall divide this land to you according to the tribes of Israel.

²² It shall happen, that you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance to you and to the aliens who live among you, who shall father children among you; and they shall be to you as the native-born among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

²³ It shall happen, that in what tribe the stranger lives, there you shall give him his inheritance, says the Lord Yahweh.