¹ 하나님이 야곱에게 이르시되 일어나 벧엘로 올라가서 거기 거하며 네가 네 형 에서의 낯을 피하여 도망하던 때에 네게 나타났던 하나님께 거기서 단을 쌓으라 ! 하신지라

² 야곱이 이에 자기 집 사람과 자기와 함께 한 모든 자에게 이르되 `너희 중의 이방 신상을 버리고 자신을 정결케 하고 의복을 바꾸라

³ 우리가 일어나 벧엘로 올라가자 나의 환난날에 내게 응답하시며 나의 가는 길에서 나와 함께 하신 하나님께 내가 거기서 단을 쌓으려 하노라' 하매

⁴ 그들이 자기 손에 있는 모든 이방 신상과 자기 귀에 있는 고리를 야곱에게 주는지라 야곱이 그것들을 세겜 근처 상수리나무 아래 묻고

⁵ 그들이 발행하였으나 하나님이 그 사면 고을들로 크게 두려워하게 하신 고로 야곱의 아들들을 추격하는 자가 없었더라

⁶ 야곱과 그와 함께한 모든 사람이 가나안 땅 루스 곧 벧엘에 이르고

⁷ 그가 거기서 단을 쌓고 그곳을 엘벧엘이라 불렀으니 이는 그 형의 낯을 피할 때에 하나님이 그에게 거기서 나타나셨음이더라

⁸ 리브가의 유모 드보라가 죽으매 그를 벧엘 아래 상수리나무 밑에 장사하고 그 나무 이름을 알론바굿이라 불렀더라

⁹ 야곱이 밧단아람에서 돌아오매 하나님이 다시 야곱에게 나타나서 그에게 복을 주시고

¹⁰ 그에게 이르시되 네 이름이 야곱이다마는 네 이름을 다시는 야곱이라 부르지 않겠고 이스라엘이 네 이름이 되리라 하시고 그가 그의 이름을 이스라엘이라 부르시고

¹¹ 그에게 이르시되 나는 전능한 하나님이니라 ! 생육하며 번성하라 ! 국민과 많은 국민이 네게서 나고 왕들이 네 허리에서 나오리라

¹² 내가 아브라함과 이삭에게 준 땅을 네게 주고 내가 네 후손에게도 그 땅을 주리라 ! 하시고

¹³ 하나님이 그와 말씀하시던 곳에서 그를 떠나 올라가시는지라

¹⁴ 야곱이 하나님의 자기와 말씀하시던 곳에 기둥 곧 돌 기둥을 세우고 그 위에 전제물을 붓고 또 그 위에 기름을 붓고

¹⁵ 하나님이 자기와 말씀하시던 곳의 이름을 벧엘이라 불렀더라

¹⁶ 그들이 벧엘에서 발행하여 에브랏에 이르기까지 얼마 길을 격한 곳에서 라헬이 임산하여 심히 신고하더니

¹⁷ 그가 난산할 즈음에 산파가 그에게 이르되 `두려워말라 지금 그대가 또 득남하느니라' 하매

¹⁸ 그가 죽기에 임하여 그 혼이 떠나려할 때에 아들의 이름은 베노니라 불렀으나 그 아비가 그를 베냐민이라 불렀더라

¹⁹ 라헬이 죽으매 에브랏 곧 베들레헴 길에 장사되었고

²⁰ 야곱이 라헬의 묘에 비를 세웠더니 지금까지 라헬의 묘비라 일컫더라

²¹ 이스라엘이 다시 발행하여 에델 망대를 지나 장막을 쳤더라

²² 이스라엘이 그 땅에 유할 때에 르우벤이 가서 그 서모 빌하와 통간하매 이스라엘이 이를 들었더라 야곱의 아들은 열 둘이라

²³ 레아의 소생은 야곱의 장자 르우벤과, 그 다음 시므온과, 레위와, 유다와, 잇사갈과, 스불론이요,

²⁴ 라헬의 소생은 요셉과, 베냐민이며,

²⁵ 라헬의 여종 빌하의 소생은 단과, 납달리요,

²⁶ 레아의 여종 실바의 소생은 갓과, 아셀이니, 이들은 야곱의 아들들이요 밧단아람에서 그에게 낳은 자더라

²⁷ 야곱이 기럇아르바의 마므레로 가서 그 아비 이삭에게 이르렀으니 기럇아르바는 곧 아브라함과 이삭의 우거하던 헤브론이더라

²⁸ 이삭의 나이 일백 팔십세라

²⁹ 이삭이 나이 많고 늙어 기운이 진하매 죽어 자기 열조에게로 돌아가니 그 아들 에서와 야곱이 그를 장사하였더라

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

² Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in God's place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"

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

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

⁵ Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.

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

⁷ Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.

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

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

¹⁰ Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, bore Jacob a son.

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

¹² Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, bore Jacob a second son.

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

¹⁴ Reuben 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."

¹⁵ She 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."

¹⁶ Jacob 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.

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

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

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

²⁰ Leah 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.

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

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

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

²⁴ She named him Joseph, saying, "May Yahweh add another son to me."

²⁵ It happened, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.

²⁶ Give 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."

²⁷ Laban said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake."

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

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

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

³¹ He 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.

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

³³ So 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 among the goats, and black among the sheep, that might be with me, will be counted stolen."

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

³⁵ That 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 among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.

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

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

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

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

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

⁴¹ It happened, whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods;

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

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