Genesis 30
1 When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else 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’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, 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 She said, “Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children 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 She gave him Bilhah her servant as wife, and Jacob went 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 Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.
她遂懷孕，給雅各伯生了一子。
6 Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son.” Therefore 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 Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.
辣黑耳的婢女彼耳哈又懷孕，給雅各伯生了第二個兒子。
8 Rachel said, “I have wrestled with my sister with mighty wrestlings, and have prevailed.” She named 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 When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her servant, and gave her to Jacob as 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 Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a son.
肋阿的婢女齊耳帕給雅各伯生了一子。
11 Leah said, “How fortunate!” She named him Gad.
肋阿遂說：「好幸運! 」就給他起名叫加得。
12 Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a second son.
肋阿的婢女齊耳帕給雅各伯又生了第二個兒子。
13 Leah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy.” She named 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 Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some 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 Leah said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes, also?” Rachel said, “Therefore he will lie with you tonight for 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 Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, “You must come in to me; for I have surely hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” He lay 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 God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob 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 Leah said, “God has given me my hire, because I gave my servant to my husband.” She named him 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 Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.
肋阿又懷孕，給雅各伯生了第六個兒子。
20 Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons.” She named him 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 Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.
後來她生了一個女兒，給她起名叫狄納。
22 God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.
天主想起了辣黑耳，垂允了她，開了她的子宮，
23 She conceived, bore a son, and said, “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 She named him Joseph, saying, “May the LORD add another son to me.”
她給他起名叫若瑟說：「願上主再給我添子。」
25 When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.
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, and let me go; for you know my service 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, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that the LORD has blessed 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 said, “Appoint me your wages, and I will give it.”
繼而說：「請規定你的工價，我必付給你。」
29 Jacob said to him, “You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared 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 was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. The LORD has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?”
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 Laban said, “What shall I give you?” Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.
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 will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. This will be 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 So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that might be with me, will be considered stolen.”
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 Laban said, “Behold, let it be according to your word.”
拉班回答說：「好，就照你的話辦罷!」
35 That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them 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 He set three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.
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 Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, and plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in 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 He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came 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 The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks produced streaked, speckled, and spotted.
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 Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in Laban’s flock. He put his own droves apart, and didn’t put them into 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 Whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, Jacob laid the rods in front of the eyes of the flock in the watering troughs, that they might conceive among 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 but when the flock were feeble, he didn’t put them in. So the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger 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 The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, 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。
