¹ 神对雅各说：起来！上伯特利去，住在那里；要在那里筑一座坛给神，就是你逃避你哥哥以扫的时候向你显现的那位。

² 雅各就对他家中的人并一切与他同在的人说：你们要除掉你们中间的外邦神，也要自洁，更换衣裳。

³ 我们要起来，上伯特利去，在那里我要筑一座坛给神，就是在我遭难的日子应允我的祷告、在我行的路上保佑我的那位。

⁴ 他们就把外邦人的神像和他们耳朵上的环子交给雅各；雅各都藏在示剑那里的橡树底下。

⁵ 他们便起行前往。神使那周围城邑的人都甚惊惧，就不追赶雅各的众子了。

⁶ 於是雅各和一切与他同在的人到了迦南地的路斯，就是伯特利。

⁷ 他在那里筑了一座坛，就给那地方起名叫伊勒伯特利(就是伯特利之神的意思)；因为他逃避他哥哥的时候，神在那里向他显现。

⁸ 利百加的奶母底波拉死了，就葬在伯特利下边橡树底下；那棵树名叫亚伦巴古。

⁹ 雅各从巴旦亚兰回来，神又向他显现，赐福与他，

¹⁰ 且对他说：你的名原是雅各，从今以後不要再叫雅各，要叫以色列。这样，他就改名叫以色列。

¹¹ 神又对他说：我是全能的神；你要生养众多，将来有一族和多国的民从你而生，又有君王从你而出。

¹² 我所赐给亚伯拉罕和以撒的地，我要赐给你与你的後裔。

¹³ 神就从那与雅各说话的地方升上去了。

¹⁴ 雅各便在那里立了一根石柱，在柱子上奠酒，浇油。

¹⁵ 雅各就给那地方起名叫伯特利。

¹⁶ 他们从伯特利起行，离以法他还有一段路程，拉结临产甚是艰难。

¹⁷ 正在艰难的时候，收生婆对他说：不要怕，你又要得一个儿子了。

¹⁸ 他将近於死，灵魂要走的时候，就给他儿子起名叫便俄尼；他父亲却给他起名叫便雅悯。

¹⁹ 拉结死了，葬在以法他的路旁；以法他就是伯利恒。

²⁰ 雅各在他的坟上立了一统碑，就是拉结的墓碑，到今日还在。

²¹ 以色列起行前往，在以得楼那边支搭帐棚。

²² 以色列住在那地的时候，流便去与他父亲的妾辟拉同寝，以色列也听见了。雅各共有十二个儿子。

²³ 利亚所生的是雅各的长子流便，还有西缅、利未、犹大、以萨迦、西布伦。

²⁴ 拉结所生的是约瑟、便雅悯。

²⁵ 拉结的使女辟拉所生的是但、拿弗他利。

²⁶ 利亚的使女悉帕所生的是迦得、亚设。这是雅各在巴旦亚兰所生的儿子。

²⁷ 雅各来到他父亲以撒那里，到了基列亚巴的幔利，乃是亚伯拉罕和以撒寄居的地方；基列亚巴就是希伯仑。

²⁸ 以撒共活了一百八十岁。

²⁹ 以撒年纪老迈，日子满足，气绝而死，归到他列祖(原文作本民)那里。他两个儿子以扫、雅各把他埋葬了。

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.