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 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.