¹ 亞伯拉罕又娶了一妻，名叫基土拉。

² 基土拉給他生了心蘭、約珊、米但、米甸、伊施巴，和書亞。

³ 約珊生了示巴和底但。底但的子孫是亞書利族、利都是族，和利烏米族。

⁴ 米甸的兒子是以法、以弗、哈諾、亞比大，和以勒大。這都是基土拉的子孫。

⁵ 亞伯拉罕將一切所有的都給了以撒。

⁶ 亞伯拉罕把財物分給他庶出的眾子，趁著自己還在世的時候打發他們離開他的兒子以撒，往東方去。

⁷ 亞伯拉罕一生的年日是一百七十五歲。

⁸ 亞伯拉罕壽高年邁，氣絕而死，歸到他列祖(原文作本民)那裡。

⁹ 他兩個兒子以撒、以實瑪利把他埋葬在麥比拉洞裡。這洞在幔利前、赫人瑣轄的兒子以弗崙的田中，

¹⁰ 就是亞伯拉罕向赫人買的那塊田。亞伯拉罕和他妻子撒拉都葬在那裡。

¹¹ 亞伯拉罕死了以後，神賜福給他的兒子以撒。以撒靠近庇耳拉海萊居住。

¹² 撒拉的使女埃及人夏甲給亞伯拉罕所生的兒子是以實瑪利。

¹³ 以實瑪利兒子們的名字，按著他們的家譜記在下面。以實瑪利的長子是尼拜約，又有基達、亞德別、米比衫、

¹⁴ 米施瑪、度瑪、瑪撒、

¹⁵ 哈大、提瑪、伊突、拿非施、基底瑪。

¹⁶ 這是以實瑪利眾子的名字，照著他們的村莊、營寨，作了十二族的族長。

¹⁷ 以實瑪利享壽一百三十七歲，氣絕而死，歸到他列祖(原文作本民)那裡。

¹⁸ 他子孫的住處在他眾弟兄東邊，從哈腓拉直到埃及前的書珥，正在亞述的道上。

¹⁹ 亞伯拉罕的兒子以撒的後代記在下面。亞伯拉罕生以撒。

²⁰ 以撒娶利百加為妻的時候正四十歲。利百加是巴旦亞蘭地的亞蘭人彼土利的女兒，是亞蘭人拉班的妹子。

²¹ 以撒因他妻子不生育，就為他祈求耶和華；耶和華應允他的祈求，他的妻子利百加就懷了孕。

²² 孩子們在他腹中彼此相爭，他就說：若是這樣，我為甚麼活著呢(或作我為甚麼如此呢)？他就去求問耶和華。

²³ 耶和華對他說：兩國在你腹內；兩族要從你身上出來。這族必強於那族；將來大的要服事小的。

²⁴ 生產的日子到了，腹中果然是雙子。

²⁵ 先產的身體發紅，渾身有毛，如同皮衣，他們就給他起名叫以掃(就是有毛的意思)。

²⁶ 隨後又生了以掃的兄弟，手抓住以掃的腳跟，因此給他起名叫雅各(就是抓住的意思)。利百加生下兩個兒子的時候，以撒年正六十歲。

²⁷ 兩個孩子漸漸長大，以掃善於打獵，常在田野；雅各為人安靜，常住在帳棚裡。

²⁸ 以撒愛以掃，因為常吃他的野味；利百加卻愛雅各。

²⁹ 有一天，雅各熬湯，以掃從田野回來累昏了。

³⁰ 以掃對雅各說：我累昏了，求你把這紅湯給我喝。因此以掃又叫以東(就是紅的意思)。

³¹ 雅各說：你今日把長子的名分賣給我罷。

³² 以掃說：我將要死，這長子的名分於我有甚麼益處呢？

³³ 雅各說：你今日對我起誓罷。以掃就對他起了誓，把長子的名分賣給雅各。

³⁴ 於是雅各將餅和紅豆湯給了以掃，以掃吃了喝了，便起來走了。這就是以掃輕看了他長子的名分。

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.