Genesis 30
1 Then Rachel, discerning that she was infertile, envied her sister, and so she said to her husband, “Give me children, otherwise I will die.”
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! 」
2 Jacob, being angry, responded to her, “Am I in the place of God, who has deprived you of the fruit of your womb?”
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﹖」
3 But she said: “I have a handmaid Bilhah. Go in to her, so that she may give birth upon my knees, and I may have sons by her.”
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。」
4 And she gave him Bilhah in marriage.
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，
5 And when her husband had gone in to her, she conceived and bore a son.
她遂懷孕，給雅各伯生了一子。
6 And Rachel said, “The Lord has judged for me, and he has heeded my voice, giving me a son.” And because of this, she called his name Dan.
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。
7 And conceiving again, Bilhah bore another,
辣黑耳的婢女彼耳哈又懷孕，給雅各伯生了第二個兒子。
8 about whom Rachel said, “God has compared me with my sister, and I have prevailed.” And she called him Naphtali.
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。
9 Leah, perceiving that she had desisted from child-bearing, delivered Zilpah, her handmaid, to her husband.
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。
10 And she, after having borne a son with difficulty,
肋阿的婢女齊耳帕給雅各伯生了一子。
11 said: “Happiness!” And for this reason, she called his name Gad.
肋阿遂說：「好幸運! 」就給他起名叫加得。
12 Likewise, Zilpah bore another.
肋阿的婢女齊耳帕給雅各伯又生了第二個兒子。
13 And Leah said, “This one is for my happiness. Indeed, women will call me blessed.” Because of this, she called him Asher.
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。
14 Then Reuben, going out into the field at the time of the wheat harvest, found mandrakes. These he brought to his mother Leah. And Rachel said, “Give me a portion of your son’s mandrakes.”
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。」
15 She responded, “Does it seem like such a small matter to you, that you have usurped from me my husband, unless you will also take my son’s mandrakes?” Rachel said, “He will sleep with you this night because of your son’s mandrakes.”
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。」
16 And when Jacob returned from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him, and she said, “You will enter to me, because I have hired you for the reward of my son’s mandrakes.” And he slept with her that night.
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。
17 And God heard her prayers. And she conceived and bore a fifth son.
天主俯允了肋阿，她又懷孕，給雅各伯生了第五個兒子。
18 And she said, “God has given a reward to me, because I gave my handmaid to my husband.” And she called his name Issachar.
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。
19 Conceiving again, Leah bore a sixth son.
肋阿又懷孕，給雅各伯生了第六個兒子。
20 And she said: “God has endowed me with a good dowry. And now, at this turn, my husband will be with me, because I have conceived six sons for him.” And therefore she called his name Zebulun.
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。
21 After him, she bore a daughter, named Dinah.
後來她生了一個女兒，給她起名叫狄納。
22 The Lord, likewise remembering Rachel, heeded her and opened her womb.
天主想起了辣黑耳，垂允了她，開了她的子宮，
23 And she conceived and bore a son, saying, “God has taken away my reproach.”
她遂懷孕，生了一個兒子，說：「天主拭去了我的恥辱。」
24 And she called his name Joseph, saying, “The Lord has added to me another son.”
她給他起名叫若瑟說：「願上主再給我添子。」
25 But when Joseph was born, Jacob said to his father-in-law: “Release me, so that I may return to my native country and to my land.
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!
26 Give me my wives, and my children, for whom I have served you, so that I may depart. You know the servitude with which I have served you.”
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。」
27 Laban said to him: “May I find grace in your sight. I have learned by experience that God has blessed me because of you.
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。」
28 Choose your wages, which I will give you.”
繼而說：「請規定你的工價，我必付給你。」
29 But he responded: “You know how I have served you, and how great your possession became in my hands.
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。
30 You had little before I came to you, and now you have achieved riches. And the Lord has blessed you since my arrival. It is just, therefore, that at some time I also should provide for my own house.”
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﹖」
31 And Laban said, “What shall I give to you?” But he said, “I want nothing. But if you will do what I ask, I will feed and guard your sheep again.
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：
32 Go around through all your flocks and separate all the sheep of variegated or spotted fleece; and whatever will be darkened or blemished or variegated, as much among the sheep as among the goats, will be my wages.
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。
33 And my justice will answer on my behalf tomorrow, when the time of settlement arrives before you. And all that is not variegated or blemished or darkened, as much among the sheep as among the goats, these will prove me to be a thief.”
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。」
34 And Laban said, “I hold favor for this request.”
拉班回答說：「好，就照你的話辦罷!」
35 And on that day he separated the she-goats, and the sheep, and the he-goats, and the rams with variegations or with blemishes. But every one of the flock which was of one color, that is, of white or of black fleece, he delivered into the hands of his sons.
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；
36 And he established a distance of three days journey between himself and his son-in-law, who pastured the remainder of his flock.
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。
37 Then Jacob, taking green branches of poplar, and almond, and sycamore trees, debarked them in part. And when the bark was pulled off, in the parts that were stripped, there appeared whiteness, yet the parts that were left whole, remained green. And so, in this way the color was made variegated.
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；
38 And he placed them in the troughs, where the water was poured out, so that when the flocks had arrived to drink, they would have the branches before their eyes, and in their sight they might conceive.
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。
39 And it happened that, in the very heat of joining together, the sheep looked upon the branches, and they bore the blemished and the variegated, those speckled with diverse color.
羊群對著枝條相配，就生出了有條紋，有斑點和黑點的小羊。
40 And Jacob divided the flock, and he set the branches in the troughs before the eyes of the rams. Now whatever was white or black belonged to Laban, but, in truth, the others belonged to Jacob, for the flocks were dispersed among one another.
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。
41 Therefore, when the first to arrive were climbing on the ewes, Jacob placed the branches in the troughs of water before the eyes of the rams and the sheep, so that they might conceive while they were gazing upon them.
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。
42 Yet when the late arrivals and the last to conceive were let in, he did not place these. And so those that arrived late became Laban’s, and those that arrived first became Jacob’s.
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。
43 And the man was enriched beyond limit, and he had many flocks, women servants and men servants, camels and donkeys.
為此這人越來越富，擁有許多羊群，婢女和奴僕，駱駝和驢子。
