¹ 利亚给雅各所生的女儿底拿出去，要见那地的女子们。

² 那地的主─希未人、哈抹的儿子示剑看见他，就拉住他，与他行淫，玷辱他。

³ 示剑的心系恋雅各的女儿底拿，喜爱这女子，甜言蜜语地安慰他。

⁴ 示剑对他父亲哈抹说：求你为我聘这女子为妻。

⁵ 雅各听见示剑玷污了他的女儿底拿。那时他的儿子们正和群畜在田野，雅各就闭口不言，等他们回来。

⁶ 示剑的父亲哈抹出来见雅各，要和他商议。

⁷ 雅各的儿子们听见这事，就从田野回来，人人忿恨，十分恼怒；因示剑在以色列家作了丑事，与雅各的女儿行淫，这本是不该做的事。

⁸ 哈抹和他们商议说：我儿子示剑的心恋慕这女子，求你们将他给我的儿子为妻。

⁹ 你们与我们彼此结亲；你们可以把女儿给我们，也可以娶我们的女儿。

¹⁰ 你们与我们同住罢！这地都在你们面前，只管在此居住，做买卖，置产业。

¹¹ 示剑对女儿的父亲和弟兄们说：但愿我在你们眼前蒙恩，你们向我要甚麽，我必给你们。

¹² 任凭向我要多重的聘金和礼物，我必照你们所说的给你们；只要把女子给我为妻。

¹³ 雅各的儿子们因为示剑玷污了他们的妹子底拿，就用诡诈的话回答示剑和他父亲哈抹，

¹⁴ 对他们说：我们不能把我们的妹子给没有受割礼的人为妻，因为那是我们的羞辱。

¹⁵ 惟有一件才可以应允：若你们所有的男丁都受割礼，和我们一样，

¹⁶ 我们就把女儿给你们，也娶你们的女儿；我们便与你们同住，两下成为一样的人民。

¹⁷ 倘若你们不听从我们受割礼，我们就带着妹子走了。

¹⁸ 哈抹和他的儿子示剑喜欢这话。

¹⁹ 那少年人做这事并不迟延，因为他喜爱雅各的女儿；他在他父亲家中也是人最尊重的。

²⁰ 哈抹和他儿子示剑到本城的门口，对本城的人说：

²¹ 这些人与我们和睦，不如许他们在这地居住，做买卖；这地也宽阔，足可容下他们。我们可以娶他们的女儿为妻，也可以把我们的女儿嫁给他们。

²² 惟有一件事我们必须做，他们才肯应允和我们同住，成为一样的人民：就是我们中间所有的男丁都要受割礼，和他们一样。

²³ 他们的群畜、货财，和一切的牲口岂不都归我们麽？只要依从他们，他们就与我们同住。

²⁴ 凡从城门出入的人就都听从哈抹和他儿子示剑的话；於是凡从城门出入的男丁都受了割礼。

²⁵ 到第三天，众人正在疼痛的时候，雅各的两个儿子，就是底拿的哥哥西缅和利未，各拿刀剑，趁着众人想不到的时候来到城中，把一切男丁都杀了，

²⁶ 又用刀杀了哈抹和他儿子示剑，把底拿从示剑家里带出来就走了。

²⁷ 雅各的儿子们因为他们的妹子受了玷污，就来到被杀的人那里，掳掠那城，

²⁸ 夺了他们的羊群、牛群，和驴，并城里田间所有的；

²⁹ 又把他们一切货财、孩子、妇女，并各房中所有的，都掳掠去了。

³⁰ 雅各对西缅和利未说：你们连累我，使我在这地的居民中，就是在迦南人和比利洗人中，有了臭名。我的人丁既然稀少，他们必聚集来击杀我，我和全家的人都必灭绝。

³¹ 他们说：他岂可待我们的妹子如同妓女麽？

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.