Genesis 30
1 And Rachel sees that she has not borne to Jacob, and Rachel is envious of her sister, and says to Jacob, “Give me sons, and if there is none—I 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 And Jacob’s anger burns against Rachel, and he says, “Am I in stead of God who has withheld from you the fruit of the 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 And she says, “Behold, my handmaid Bilhah, go in to her, and she bears on my knees, and I am built up, even I, from 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 gives Bilhah her maidservant to him for a wife, and Jacob goes in to her;
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 Bilhah conceives, and bears a son to Jacob,
她遂懷孕，給雅各伯生了一子。
6 and Rachel says, “God has decided for me, and has also listened to my voice, and gives a son to me”; therefore she has 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 Bilhah, Rachel’s maidservant, conceives again, and bears a second son to Jacob,
辣黑耳的婢女彼耳哈又懷孕，給雅各伯生了第二個兒子。
8 and Rachel says, “With wrestlings of God I have wrestled with my sister, indeed, I have prevailed”; and she calls his name Napthali.
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 And Leah sees that she has ceased from bearing, and she takes Zilpah her maidservant, and gives her to Jacob for a wife;
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 Zilpah, Leah’s maidservant, bears a son to Jacob,
肋阿的婢女齊耳帕給雅各伯生了一子。
11 and Leah says, “A troop is coming”; and she calls his name Gad.
肋阿遂說：「好幸運! 」就給他起名叫加得。
12 And Zilpah, Leah’s maidservant, bears a second son to Jacob,
肋阿的婢女齊耳帕給雅各伯又生了第二個兒子。
13 and Leah says, “Because of my happiness, for daughters have pronounced me blessed”; and she calls his name 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 And Reuben goes in the days of wheat-harvest, and finds love-apples in the field, and brings them to his mother Leah, and Rachel says to Leah, “Please give to me of the love-apples of your son.”
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 And she says to her, “Is your taking my husband a little thing, that you have also taken the love-apples of my son?” And Rachel says, “He therefore lies with you tonight, for your son’s love-apples.”
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 Jacob comes in from the field at evening; and Leah goes to meet him and says, “You come in to me, for [in] hiring I have hired you with my son’s love-apples”; and he lies with her during 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 listens to Leah, and she conceives, and bears a son to Jacob, a fifth,
天主俯允了肋阿，她又懷孕，給雅各伯生了第五個兒子。
18 and Leah says, “God has given my hire, because I have given my maidservant to my husband”; and she calls 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 And Leah conceives again, and she bears a sixth son to Jacob,
肋阿又懷孕，給雅各伯生了第六個兒子。
20 and Leah says, “God has endowed me—a good dowry; this time my husband dwells with me, for I have borne six sons to him”; and she calls 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 and afterward she has borne a daughter, and calls her name Dinah.
後來她生了一個女兒，給她起名叫狄納。
22 And God remembers Rachel, and God listens to her, and opens her womb,
天主想起了辣黑耳，垂允了她，開了她的子宮，
23 and she conceives and bears a son, and says, “God has gathered up 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 calls his name Joseph, saying, “YHWH is adding to me another son.”
她給他起名叫若瑟說：「願上主再給我添子。」
25 And it comes to pass, when Rachel has borne Joseph, that Jacob says to Laban, “Send me away, and I go to my place, 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 up my wives and my children, for whom I have served you, and I go; for you have known my service 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 And Laban says to him, “Now if I have found grace in your eyes—I have observed diligently that YHWH blesses me for your sake.”
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 He also says, “Define your hire to me, and I give.”
繼而說：「請規定你的工價，我必付給你。」
29 And he says to him, “You have known that which I have served you [in], and that which your substance was with me;
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 for [it is] little which you have had at my appearance, and it breaks forth into a multitude, and YHWH blesses you at my coming; and now, when do I make, I also, 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 he says, “What do I give to you?” And Jacob says, “You do not give me anything; if you do this thing for me, I turn back; I have delight; I watch your flock;
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 I pass through all your flock today to turn aside every speckled and spotted sheep from there, and every brown sheep among the lambs, and speckled and spotted among the goats—and it has been my hire;
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 righteousness has answered for me in the day to come, when it comes in for my hire before your face—everyone which is not speckled and spotted among [my] goats, and brown among [my] lambs—it is stolen with me.”
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 says, “Behold, O that it were according to your word”;
拉班回答說：「好，就照你的話辦罷!」
35 and he turns aside during that day the striped and the spotted male goats, and all the speckled and the spotted female goats, everyone that [has] white in it, and every brown one among the lambs, and he gives into the hand 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 sets a journey of three days between himself and Jacob; and Jacob is feeding the rest of the flock of Laban.
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 And Jacob takes to himself a rod of fresh poplar and almond and plane-tree, and peels in them white peelings, making bare the white that [is] on the rods,
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 sets up the rods which he has peeled in the gutters in the watering troughs (where the flock comes to drink), in front of the flock, that they may conceive in their coming to drink;
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 the flocks conceive at the rods, and the flock bears striped, speckled, and spotted ones.
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 has parted the lambs, and he puts the face of the flock toward the striped, also all the brown in the flock of Laban, and he sets his own droves by themselves, and has not set them near Laban’s flock.
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 And it has come to pass, whenever the strong ones of the flock conceive, that Jacob sets the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, to cause them to conceive by the rods,
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 and when the flock is feeble, he does not set [them]; and the feeble ones have been Laban’s, and the strong ones 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 increases very exceedingly, and has many flocks, and maidservants, and menservants, and 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。
