創世記 30
1 辣黑耳見自己沒有給雅各伯生子，就嫉妒姐姐，對雅各伯說：「你要給我孩子；不然，我就死啦! 」
And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
2 雅各伯對辣黑耳生氣說：「不肯使你懷孕的是天主，難道我能替他作主﹖」
And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God's position, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?
3 辣黑耳回答說：「這裏有我的婢女彼耳哈，你親近她，叫她在我膝下生子，使我能由她得子。」
And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.
4 辣黑耳就將自己的婢女彼耳哈給了雅各伯作妾；雅各伯親近了她，
And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.
5 她遂懷孕，給雅各伯生了一子。
And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.
6 辣黑耳就說：「天主對我公道，俯聽了我的哀聲，給了我一子。」為此給他起名叫丹。
And Rachel said, God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.
7 辣黑耳的婢女彼耳哈又懷孕，給雅各伯生了第二個兒子。
And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son.
8 辣黑耳就說：「我以天大的力量與我姐姐相爭，得到勝利了。」便給他起名叫納斐塔里。
And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.
9 肋阿見自己停止生育，也將自己的婢女齊耳帕給了雅各伯作妾。
When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
10 肋阿的婢女齊耳帕給雅各伯生了一子。
And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son.
11 肋阿遂說：「好幸運! 」就給他起名叫加得。
And Leah said, A troop comes: and she called his name Gad.
12 肋阿的婢女齊耳帕給雅各伯又生了第二個兒子。
And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son.
13 肋阿遂說：「我真有福! 女人都要以為我有福。」就給他起名叫阿協爾。
And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.
14 到了割麥的時節，勒烏本出去，在田間尋得了一些曼陀羅，帶回來給了他母親肋阿。辣黑耳對肋阿說：「請你將你兒子得的曼陀羅給我一些。」
And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray you, of your son's mandrakes.
15 肋阿回答說：「你奪去了我的丈夫還不夠；你還想奪去我兒的曼陀羅麼﹖」辣黑耳說：「好罷! 今夜就讓他與你同睡，為交換你兒子的曼陀羅。」
And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that you have taken my husband? and would you take away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with you to night for your son's mandrakes.
16 到了晚上雅各伯由田間回來，肋阿就跑出去迎接他說：「你該來我這裏，因為我用我兒子的曼陀羅雇了你。」那夜雅各伯便與她同睡。
And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, You must come in unto me; for surely I have hired you with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.
17 天主俯允了肋阿，她又懷孕，給雅各伯生了第五個兒子。
And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son.
18 肋阿說：「天主給了我報酬，因為我將我的婢女給了我的丈夫。」便給他起名叫依撒加爾。
And Leah said, God has given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.
19 肋阿又懷孕，給雅各伯生了第六個兒子。
And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.
20 肋阿說：「天主給了我一個很好的禮物；這一回我的丈夫要與我同居了，因為我給他生了六個兒子。」便給他起名叫則步隆。
And Leah said, God has imbued me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun.
21 後來她生了一個女兒，給她起名叫狄納。
And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
22 天主想起了辣黑耳，垂允了她，開了她的子宮，
And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.
23 她遂懷孕，生了一個兒子，說：「天主拭去了我的恥辱。」
And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God has taken away my reproach:
24 她給他起名叫若瑟說：「願上主再給我添子。」
And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son.
25 辣黑耳生了若瑟以後，雅各伯對拉班說：「請讓我回到我的本鄉故土!
And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country.
26 請你將我服事你所得的妻子兒女交給我，讓我回去；你知道我怎樣服事了你。」
Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served you, and let me go: for you know my service which I have done you.
27 拉班對他說：「如果我在你眼中得寵，請你住下；我覺察出，上主祝福我，是為了你的原故。」
And Laban said unto him, I pray you, if I have found favour in your eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that the LORD has blessed me for your sake.
28 繼而說：「請規定你的工價，我必付給你。」
And he said, Appoint me your wages, and I will give it.
29 雅各伯對他說：「你知道，我是怎樣服事了你；你的牲畜跟著我是怎樣的情形。
And he said unto him, You know how I have served you, and how your cattle was with me.
30 我未來之前，你所有的是那麼少，現在增加了那麼多；我一來，上主就祝福了你。但是，我幾時也能為我興家立業呢﹖」
For it was little which you had before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD has blessed you since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?
31 拉班問說：「我該給你什麼﹖」雅各伯答說：「你什麼也不必給我，只要你應承我這件事，我就仍牧放照顧你的羊群：
And he said, What shall I give you? And Jacob said, You shall not give me any thing: if you will do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep your flock.
32 你今天走遍你的羊群，將其中凡有斑點或黑點的，即綿羊群中有黑色的，山羊群中有黑點或斑點的，都挑出來，當作我的工價。
I will pass through all your flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.
33 後來任何一天，你來察看我的工價時，我好對你證明我的公正。山羊中凡是沒有斑點或黑點的，綿羊中凡是不黑的，都算是偷來的。」
So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before your face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
34 拉班回答說：「好，就照你的話辦罷!」
And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to your word.
35 當天拉班就將有條紋有斑點的公山羊，凡有白紋，或斑點和黑點的母山羊，並黑色的綿羊都挑出來，交在自己兒子們手中；
And he removed that day the he goats that were striped with bands and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
36 又使雅各伯與自己相距三日的路程。雅各伯便牧放拉班其餘的羊群。
And he set three days' journey between himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
37 雅各伯拿了楊樹、杏樹和楓樹的嫩枝，將皮剝成一條一條的白紋，使樹枝的光白露出；
And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chestnut tree; and stripped white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
38 然後將剝去皮的枝條，插在水溝和水漕裏，羊群前來喝水時，正與羊群相對。羊群前來喝水時，就彼此相配。
And he set the rods which he had stripped before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.
39 羊群對著枝條相配，就生出了有條紋，有斑點和黑點的小羊。
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle striped with bands, speckled, and spotted.
40 雅各伯將這些羔羊分開，將這些羊放在拉班羊群中有條紋和有黑點的羊前；這樣他為自己另組羊群，不將牠們放在拉班的羊群中。
And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the striped with bands, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle.
41 到了肥壯的羊要配合時，雅各伯就將枝條插在水溝裏，對著羊群的眼，使羊對著枝條彼此相配。
And it came to pass, whenever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.
42 當羊群瘦弱時，他就不插枝條：這樣，瘦弱的都歸拉班，肥壯的都歸雅各伯。
But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
43 為此這人越來越富，擁有許多羊群，婢女和奴僕，駱駝和驢子。
And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and male servants, and camels, and asses.
