¹ Jokūbas keliaudamas atėjo į rytų šalį.

² Jis pamatė šulinį ir prie jo sugulusias tris avių bandas; iš to šulinio girdydavo bandas. Ant šulinio angos buvo užristas didelis akmuo.

³ Suvarius visas bandas, atrisdavo tą akmenį nuo šulinio angos ir pagirdydavo avis, po to vėl užrisdavo tą akmenį.

⁴ Jokūbas klausė: “Broliai, iš kur jūs esate?” Tie atsakė: “Iš Charano”.

⁵ Jis vėl klausė: “Ar pažįstate Labaną, Nahoro sūnų?” Jie atsakė: “Pažįstame”.

⁶ Jis klausė: “Kaip jam sekasi?” Tie atsakė: “Gerai. Štai jo duktė achelė ateina su avimis!”

⁷ Jokūbas tarė: “Dar anksti, ne laikas suvaryti gyvulius. Pagirdykite avis ir ganykite!”

⁸ Bet jie atsakė: “Negalime, kol suvarys visas bandas ir nuris tą akmenį nuo šulinio angos. Tik tada pagirdysime avis”.

⁹ Jam bekalbant su jais, achelė atėjo su savo tėvo avimis, kurias ji ganė.

¹⁰ Jokūbas, pamatęs achelę, savo dėdės Labano dukterį, ir savo dėdės Labano avis, priėjęs nurito akmenį nuo šulinio angos ir pagirdė savo motinos brolio Labano avis.

¹¹ Po to Jokūbas pabučiavo achelę ir balsu pravirko.

¹² Jokūbas pasisakė jai esąs jos tėvo brolis, ebekos sūnus. Ta nubėgusi pranešė tėvui.

¹³ Labanas, išgirdęs žinią apie savo sesers sūnų Jokūbą, atbėgo jo pasitikti; jį apkabinęs ir pabučiavęs, nusivedė į savo namus, o tas viską išsipasakojo Labanui.

¹⁴ Labanas jam tarė: “Tikrai tu esi mano kūnas ir mano kaulas!” Jis gyveno pas jį visą mėnesį.

¹⁵ Ir Labanas tarė Jokūbui: “Ar dėl to, kad esi mano brolis, turėtum man veltui tarnauti? Pasakyk, kuo tau atlyginti?”

¹⁶ Labanas turėjo dvi dukteris: vyresnioji vardu Lėja, o jaunesnioji­ achelė.

¹⁷ Lėjos akys buvo silpnos, o achelė buvo gražaus veido ir dailios išvaizdos.

¹⁸ Jokūbas pamilo achelę ir pasakė: “Aš tau tarnausiu septynerius metus už jaunesniąją dukterį achelę”.

¹⁹ Labanas atsakė: “Mieliau aš ją duosiu tau negu kitam. Lik pas mane!”

²⁰ Jokūbas tarnavo už achelę septynerius metus. Kadangi jis mylėjo ją, jam tas laikas atrodė kaip kelios dienos.

²¹ Po to Jokūbas tarė Labanui: “Duok man mano žmoną, nes atėjo laikas, kad pas ją įeičiau!”

²² Labanas sukvietė visus tos vietovės žmones ir iškėlė puotą.

²³ Vakare jis įvedė savo dukterį Lėją pas jį, ir jis įėjo pas ją.

²⁴ Labanas davė Lėjai savo tarnaitę Zilpą.

²⁵ ytui išaušus, pasirodė, kad tai buvo Lėja. Tada jis tarė Labanui: “Ką man padarei! Ar ne už achelę tarnavau? Kam tad mane apgavai?”

²⁶ Labanas atsakė: “Mūsų krašte taip nedaro, kad išleistų jaunesniąją anksčiau už vyresniąją.

²⁷ Pabaik šią savaitę, po to duosiu tau achelę, už kurią tarnausi dar kitus septynerius metus!”

²⁸ Jokūbas sutiko ir pabaigė tą savaitę. Tada Labanas davė jam savo dukterį achelę už žmoną.

²⁹ Labanas davė savo dukteriai achelei tarnaitę Bilhą.

³⁰ Jis įėjo ir pas achelę ir mylėjo ją labiau už Lėją; ir tarnavo dar kitus septynerius metus.

³¹ Viešpats matydamas, kad Jokūbas Lėjos nemylėjo, padarė ją vaisingą, o achelę­nevaisingą.

³² Lėja pastojo ir pagimdė sūnų, kurį pavadino ubenu, nes ji sakė: “Viešpats atsižvelgė į mano sielvartą; dabar mane mylės mano vyras”.

³³ Ji pagimdė kitą sūnų ir tarė: “Kadangi Viešpats išgirdo, kad manęs nemyli, Jis davė man dar ir šitą”. Ji pavadino jį Simeonu.

³⁴ Po to ji vėl pagimdė sūnų ir tarė: “Dabar mano vyras prisiriš prie manęs, nes aš jam pagimdžiau tris sūnus”. Todėl ji pavadino jį Leviu.

³⁵ Ji vėl pastojo ir pagimdė sūnų, ir tarė: “Dabar šlovinsiu Viešpatį”. Todėl ji pavadino jį Judu. Po to ji liovėsi gimdžiusi.

¹ After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn't walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

² Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.

³ His brothers therefore said to him, "Depart from here, and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do.

⁴ For no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world."

⁵ For even his brothers didn't believe in him.

⁶ Jesus therefore said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

⁷ The world can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

⁸ You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled."

⁹ Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee.

¹⁰ But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.

¹¹ The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, "Where is he?"

¹² There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, "He is a good man." Others said, "Not so, but he leads the multitude astray."

¹³ Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.

¹⁴ But when it was now the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught.

¹⁵ The Jews therefore marveled, saying, "How does this man know letters, having never been educated?"

¹⁶ Jesus therefore answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.

¹⁷ If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.

¹⁸ He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

¹⁹ Didn't Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?"

²⁰ The multitude answered, "You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?"

²¹ Jesus answered them, "I did one work, and you all marvel because of it.

²² Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.

²³ If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a man completely healthy on the Sabbath?

²⁴ Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."

²⁵ Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, "Isn't this he whom they seek to kill?

²⁶ Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ?

²⁷ However we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from."

²⁸ Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, "You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don't know.

²⁹ I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me."

³⁰ They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

³¹ But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, "When the Christ comes, he won't do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?"

³² The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

³³ Then Jesus said, "I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.

³⁴ You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come."

³⁵ The Jews therefore said among themselves, "Where will this man go that we won't find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?

³⁶ What is this word that he said, 'You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come'?"

³⁷ Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!

³⁸ He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water."

³⁹ But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn't yet glorified.

⁴⁰ Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, "This is truly the prophet."

⁴¹ Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?

⁴² Hasn't the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"

⁴³ So there arose a division in the multitude because of him.

⁴⁴ Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.

⁴⁵ The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why didn't you bring him?"

⁴⁶ The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!"

⁴⁷ The Pharisees therefore answered them, "You aren't also led astray, are you?

⁴⁸ Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?

⁴⁹ But this multitude that doesn't know the law is accursed."

⁵⁰ Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them,

⁵¹ "Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?"

⁵² They answered him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee."

⁵³ Everyone went to his own house,