¹ 拉结见自己不给雅各生子，就嫉妒他姊姊，对雅各说：你给我孩子，不然我就死了。

² 雅各向拉结生气，说：叫你不生育的是神，我岂能代替他作主呢？

³ 拉结说：有我的使女辟拉在这里，你可以与他同房，使他生子在我膝下，我便因他也得孩子(原文作被建立)。

⁴ 拉结就把他的使女辟拉给丈夫为妾；雅各便与他同房，

⁵ 辟拉就怀孕，给雅各生了一个儿子。

⁶ 拉结说：神伸了我的冤，也听了我的声音，赐我一个儿子，因此给他起名叫但(就是伸冤的意思)。

⁷ 拉结的使女辟拉又怀孕，给雅各生了第二个儿子。

⁸ 拉结说：我与我姊姊大大相争，并且得胜，於是给他起名叫拿弗他利(就是相争的意思)。

⁹ 利亚见自己停了生育，就把使女悉帕给雅各为妾。

¹⁰ 利亚的使女悉帕给雅各生了一个儿子。

¹¹ 利亚说：万幸！於是给他起名叫迦得(就是万幸的意思)。

¹² 利亚的使女悉帕又给雅各生了第二个儿子。

¹³ 利亚说：我有福阿，众女子都要称我是有福的，於是给他起名叫亚设(就是有福的意思)。

¹⁴ 割麦子的时候，流便往田里去，寻见风茄，拿来给他母亲利亚。拉结对利亚说：请你把你儿子的风茄给我些。

¹⁵ 利亚说：你夺了我的丈夫还算小事麽？你又要夺我儿子的风茄麽？拉结说：为你儿子的风茄，今夜他可以与你同寝。

¹⁶ 到了晚上，雅各从田里回来，利亚出来迎接他，说：你要与我同寝，因为我实在用我儿子的风茄把你雇下了。那一夜，雅各就与他同寝。

¹⁷ 神应允了利亚，他就怀孕，给雅各生了第五个儿子。

¹⁸ 利亚说：神给了我价值，因为我把使女给了我丈夫，於是给他起名叫以萨迦(就是价值的意思)。

¹⁹ 利亚又怀孕，给雅各生了第六个儿子。

²⁰ 利亚说：神赐我厚赏；我丈夫必与我同住，因我给他生了六个儿子，於是给他起名西布伦(就是同住的意思)。

²¹ 後来又生了一个女儿，给他起名叫底拿。

²² 神顾念拉结，应允了他，使他能生育。

²³ 拉结怀孕生子，说：神除去了我的羞耻，

²⁴ 就给他起名叫约瑟(就是增添的意思)，意思说：愿耶和华再增添我一个儿子。

²⁵ 拉结生约瑟之後，雅各对拉班说：请打发我走，叫我回到我本乡本土去。

²⁶ 请你把我服事你所得的妻子和儿女给我，让我走；我怎样服事你，你都知道。

²⁷ 拉班对他说：我若在你眼前蒙恩，请你仍与我同住，因为我已算定，耶和华赐福与我是为你的缘故；

²⁸ 又说：请你定你的工价，我就给你。

²⁹ 雅各对他说：我怎样服事你，你的牲畜在我手里怎样，是你知道的。

³⁰ 我未来之先，你所有的很少，现今却发大众多，耶和华随我的脚步赐福与你。如今，我甚麽时候才为自己兴家立业呢？

³¹ 拉班说：我当给你甚麽呢？雅各说：甚麽你也不必给我，只有一件事，你若应承，我便仍旧牧放你的羊群。

³² 今天我要走遍你的羊群，把绵羊中凡有点的、有斑的，和黑色的，并山羊中凡有斑的、有点的，都挑出来；将来这一等的就算我的工价。

³³ 以後你来查看我的工价，凡在我手里的山羊不是有点有斑的，绵羊不是黑色的，那就算是我偷的；这样便可证出我的公义来。

³⁴ 拉班说：好阿！我情愿照着你的话行。

³⁵ 当日，拉班把有纹的、有斑的公山羊，有点的、有斑的、有杂白纹的母山羊，并黑色的绵羊，都挑出来，交在他儿子们的手下，

³⁶ 又使自己和雅各相离三天的路程。雅各就牧养拉班其馀的羊。

³⁷ 雅各拿杨树、杏树、枫树的嫩枝，将皮剥成白纹，使枝子露出白的来，

³⁸ 将剥了皮的枝子，对着羊群，插在饮羊的水沟里和水槽里，羊来喝的时候，牝牡配合。

³⁹ 羊对着枝子配合，就生下有纹的、有点的、有斑的来。

⁴⁰ 雅各把羊羔分出来，使拉班的羊与这有纹和黑色的羊相对，把自己的羊另放一处，不叫他和拉班的羊混杂。

⁴¹ 到羊群肥壮配合的时候，雅各就把枝子插在水沟里，使羊对着枝子配合。

⁴² 只是到羊瘦弱配合的时候就不插枝子。这样，瘦弱的就归拉班，肥壮的就归雅各。

⁴³ 於是雅各极其发大，得了许多的羊群、仆婢、骆驼，和驴。

¹ This was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph. As for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.

² So this was for the rest of the children of Manasseh according to their families: for the children of Abiezer, for the children of Helek, for the children of Asriel, for the children of Shechem, for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these were the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph according to their families.

³ But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

⁴ They came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, "Yahweh commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brothers." Therefore according to the commandment of Yahweh he gave them an inheritance among the brothers of their father.

⁵ Ten parts fell to Manasseh, besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is beyond the Jordan;

⁶ because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons. The land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the sons of Manasseh.

⁷ The border of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethath, which is before Shechem. The border went along to the right hand, to the inhabitants of En Tappuah.

⁸ The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh; but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim.

⁹ The border went down to the brook of Kanah, southward of the brook. These cities belonged to Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh. The border of Manasseh was on the north side of the brook, and ended at the sea.

¹⁰ Southward it was Ephraim's, and northward it was Manasseh's, and the sea was his border. They reached to Asher on the north, and to Issachar on the east.

¹¹ Manasseh had three heights in Issachar, in Asher Beth Shean and its towns, and Ibleam and its towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Endor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns.

¹² Yet the children of Manasseh couldn't drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.

¹³ It happened, when the children of Israel had grown strong, that they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and didn't utterly drive them out.

¹⁴ The children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, "Why have you given me just one lot and one part for an inheritance, since I am a great people, because Yahweh has blessed me so far?"

¹⁵ Joshua said to them, "If you are a great people, go up to the forest, and clear land for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim; since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you."

¹⁶ The children of Joseph said, "The hill country is not enough for us. All the Canaanites who dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both those who are in Beth Shean and its towns, and those who are in the valley of Jezreel."

¹⁷ Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, "You are a great people, and have great power. You shall not have one lot only;

¹⁸ but the hill country shall be yours. Although it is a forest, you shall cut it down, and it's farthest extent shall be yours; for you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong."