Genesis 30
1 And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister, and said to Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
拉結見自己不給雅各生子，就嫉妒她姊姊，對雅各說：「你給我孩子，不然我就死了。」
2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, Am I in God's stead, who has withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?
雅各向拉結生氣，說：「叫你不生育的是上帝，我豈能代替他作主呢？」
3 And she said, Behold, there is my maid, Bilhah: go in to her, in order that she may bear on my knees, and I may also be built up by her.
拉結說：「有我的使女辟拉在這裏，你可以與她同房，使她生子在我膝下，我便因她也得孩子。」
4 And she gave him Bilhah her maidservant as wife, and Jacob went in to her.
拉結就把她的使女辟拉給丈夫為妾；雅各便與她同房，
5 And Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.
辟拉就懷孕，給雅各生了一個兒子。
6 And Rachel said, God has done me justice, and has also heard my voice, and given me a son; therefore she called his name Dan.
拉結說：「上帝伸了我的冤，也聽了我的聲音，賜我一個兒子」，因此給他起名叫但。
7 And Bilhah Rachel's maidservant again conceived, and bore Jacob a second son.
拉結的使女辟拉又懷孕，給雅各生了第二個兒子。
8 And Rachel said, Wrestlings of God have I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed; and she called his name Naphtali.
拉結說：「我與我姊姊大大相爭，並且得勝」，於是給他起名叫拿弗他利。
9 And when Leah saw that she had ceased to bear, she took Zilpah her maidservant and gave her to Jacob as wife.
利亞見自己停了生育，就把使女悉帕給雅各為妾。
10 And Zilpah Leah's maidservant bore Jacob a son.
利亞的使女悉帕給雅各生了一個兒子。
11 And Leah said, Fortunately! and she called his name Gad.
利亞說：「萬幸！」於是給他起名叫迦得 。
12 And Zilpah Leah's maidservant bore Jacob a second son.
利亞的使女悉帕又給雅各生了第二個兒子。
13 And Leah said, Happy am I; for the daughters will call me blessed! and she called his name Asher.
利亞說：「我有福啊，眾女子都要稱我是有福的」，於是給他起名叫亞設。
14 And Reuben went out in the days of wheat-harvest, and found mandrakes in the fields; and he brought them to his mother Leah. And Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.
割麥子的時候，呂便往田裏去，尋見風茄，拿來給他母親利亞。拉結對利亞說：「請你把你兒子的風茄給我些。」
15 And she said to her, Is it [too] little that thou hast taken my husband, that thou wilt take my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to-night for thy son's mandrakes.
利亞說：「你奪了我的丈夫還算小事嗎？你又要奪我兒子的風茄嗎？」拉結說：「為你兒子的風茄，今夜他可以與你同寢。」
16 And when Jacob came from the fields in the evening, Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in to me, for indeed I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.
到了晚上，雅各從田裏回來，利亞出來迎接他，說：「你要與我同寢，因為我實在用我兒子的風茄把你雇下了。」那一夜，雅各就與她同寢。
17 And God hearkened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.
上帝應允了利亞，她就懷孕，給雅各生了第五個兒子。
18 And Leah said, God has given me my hire, because I have given my maidservant to my husband; and she called his name Issachar.
利亞說：「上帝給了我價值，因為我把使女給了我丈夫」，於是給他起名叫以薩迦。
19 And Leah again conceived, and bore Jacob a sixth son;
利亞又懷孕，給雅各生了第六個兒子。
20 and Leah said, God has endowed me with a good dowry; this time will my husband dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons. And she called his name Zebulun.
利亞說：「上帝賜我厚賞；我丈夫必與我同住，因我給他生了六個兒子」，於是給他起名西布倫。
21 And afterwards she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
後來又生了一個女兒，給她起名叫底拿。
22 And God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.
上帝顧念拉結，應允了她，使她能生育。
23 And she conceived, and bore a son, and said, God has taken away my reproach.
拉結懷孕生子，說：「上帝除去了我的羞恥」，
24 And she called his name Joseph; and said, Jehovah will add to me another son.
就給他起名叫約瑟，意思說：「願耶和華再增添我一個兒子。」
25 And it came to pass when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, Send me away, that I may go to my place and to my country.
拉結生約瑟之後，雅各對拉班說：「請打發我走，叫我回到我本鄉本土去。
26 Give [me] my wives for whom I have served thee, and my children; that I may go away, for thou knowest my service which I have served thee.
請你把我服事你所得的妻子和兒女給我，讓我走；我怎樣服事你，你都知道。」
27 And Laban said to him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes — I have discovered that Jehovah has blessed me for thy sake.
拉班對他說：「我若在你眼前蒙恩，請你仍與我同住，因為我已算定，耶和華賜福與我是為你的緣故」；
28 And he said, Appoint to me thy wages, and I will give it.
又說：「請你定你的工價，我就給你。」
29 And he said to him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and what thy cattle has become with me.
雅各對他說：「我怎樣服事你，你的牲畜在我手裏怎樣，是你知道的。
30 For it was little that thou hadst before me, and it is increased to a multitude, and Jehovah has blessed thee from the time I came; and now, when shall I also provide for my house?
我未來之先，你所有的很少，現今卻發大眾多，耶和華隨我的腳步賜福與你。如今，我甚麼時候才為自己興家立業呢？」
31 And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me anything. If thou doest this for me, I will again feed [and] keep thy flock:
拉班說：「我當給你甚麼呢？」雅各說：「甚麼你也不必給我，只有一件事，你若應承，我便仍舊牧放你的羊群。
32 I will pass through all thy flock to-day, to remove thence all the speckled and spotted sheep, and all the brown lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and [that] shall be my hire.
今天我要走遍你的羊群，把綿羊中凡有點的、有斑的，和黑色的，並山羊中凡有斑的、有點的，都挑出來；將來這一等的就算我的工價。
33 And my righteousness shall answer for me hereafter, when thou comest about my hire, before thy face: all that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the lambs, let that be stolen with me.
以後你來查看我的工價，凡在我手裏的山羊不是有點有斑的，綿羊不是黑色的，那就算是我偷的；這樣便可證出我的公義來。」
34 And Laban said, Well, let it be according to thy word.
拉班說：「好啊！我情願照着你的話行。」
35 And he removed that day the he-goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the brown among the lambs, and gave [them] into the hand of his sons.
當日，拉班把有紋的、有斑的公山羊，有點的、有斑的、有雜白紋的母山羊，並黑色的綿羊，都挑出來，交在他兒子們的手下，
36 And he put three days' journey between himself and Jacob. And Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flock.
又使自己和雅各相離三天的路程。雅各就牧養拉班其餘的羊。
37 And Jacob took fresh rods of white poplar, almond-tree, and maple; and peeled off white stripes in them, uncovering the white which was on the rods.
雅各拿楊樹、杏樹、楓樹的嫩枝，將皮剝成白紋，使枝子露出白的來，
38 And he set the rods which he had peeled before the flock, in the troughs at the watering-places where the flock came to drink, and they were ardent when they came to drink.
將剝了皮的枝子，對着羊群，插在飲羊的水溝裏和水槽裏，羊來喝的時候，牝牡配合。
39 And the flock was ardent before the rods; and the flock brought forth ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
羊對着枝子配合，就生下有紋的、有點的、有斑的來。
40 And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flock toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he made himself separate flocks, and did not put them with Laban's flock.
雅各把羊羔分出來，使拉班的羊與這有紋和黑色的羊相對，把自己的羊另放一處，不叫他和拉班的羊混雜。
41 And it came to pass whensoever the strong cattle were ardent, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might become ardent among the rods;
到羊群肥壯配合的時候，雅各就把枝子插在水溝裏，使羊對着枝子配合。
42 but when the sheep were feeble, he put [them] not in; so the feeble were Laban's, and the strong Jacob's.
只是到羊瘦弱配合的時候就不插枝子。這樣，瘦弱的就歸拉班，肥壯的就歸雅各。
43 And the man increased very, very much, and had much cattle, and bondwomen, and bondmen, and camels, and asses.
於是雅各極其發大，得了許多的羊群、僕婢、駱駝，和驢。
