Gênesis 30

1 Vendo pois Rachel que não paria filhos a Jacob, teve Rachel inveja de sua irmã, e disse a Jacob: Dá-me filhos, ou se não morro.

And Rachel, seeing herself without children, envied her sister, and said to her husband: Give me children, otherwise I shall die.

2 Então se acendeu a ira de Jacob contra Rachel, e disse: Estou eu no lugar de Deus, que te impediu o fruto de teu ventre?

And Jacob being angry with her, answered: Am I as God, who hath deprived thee of the fruit of thy womb?

3 E ela disse: Eis aqui minha serva Bilha; entra a ela, para que pára sobre os meus joelhos, e eu também seja edificada dela.

But she said: I have here my servant Bala: go in unto her, that she may bear upon my knees, and I may have children by her.

4 Assim lhe deu a Bilha sua serva por mulher: e Jacob entrou a ela.

And she gave him Bala in marriage: who,

5 E concebeu Bilha, e pariu a Jacob um filho.

When her husband had gone in unto her, conceived and bore a son.

6 Então disse Rachel: Julgou-me Deus, e também ouviu a minha voz, e me deu um filho; por isso chamou o seu nome Dan.

And Rachel said: The Lord hath judged for me, and hath heard my voice, giving me a son, and therefore she called his name Dan.

7 E Bilha, serva de Rachel, concebeu outra vez, e pariu a Jacob o segundo filho.

And again Bala conceived and bore another,

8 Então disse Rachel: Com lutas de Deus tenho lutado com minha irmã, também venci; e chamou o seu nome Naphtali.

For whom Rachel said: God hath compared me with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called him Nephtali.

9 Vendo pois Leah que cessava de parir, tomou também a Zilpah sua serva, e deu-a a Jacob por mulher.

Lia, perceiving that she had left off bearing, gave Zelpha her handmaid to her husband.

10 E pariu Zilpah, serva de Leah, um filho a Jacob.

And when she had conceived and brought forth a son,

11 Então disse Leah: Vem uma turba: e chamou o seu nome Gad.

She said: Happily. And therefore called his name Gad.

12 Depois pariu Zilpah, serva de Leah, um segundo filho a Jacob.

Zelpha also bore another.

13 Então disse Leah: Para minha ventura; porque as filhas me terão por benaventurada: e chamou o seu nome Asher.

And Lia said: This is for my happiness: for women will call me blessed. Therefore she called him Aser.

14 E foi Ruben nos dias da sega do trigo, e achou mandrágoras no campo. E trouxe-as a Leah, sua mãe. Então disse Rachel a Leah: Ora dá-me das mandrágoras do teu filho.

And Ruben, going out in the time of the wheat harvest into the field, found mandrakes: which he brought to his mother Lia. And Rachel said: Give me part of thy son’s mandrakes.

15 E ela lhe disse: É já pouco que hajas tomado o meu marido, tomarás também as mandrágoras do meu filho? Então disse Rachel: Por isso se deitará contigo esta noite pelas mandrágoras de teu filho.

She answered: Dost thou think it a small matter, that thou hast taken my husband from me, unless thou take also my son’s mandrakes? Rachel said: He shall sleep with thee this night, for thy son’s mandrakes.

16 Vindo pois Jacob à tarde do campo, saiu-lhe Leah ao encontro, e disse: A mim entrarás, porque certamente te aluguei com as mandrágoras do meu filho. E deitou-se com ela aquela noite.

And when Jacob returned at even from the field, Lia went out to meet him, and said: Thou shalt come in unto me, because I have hired thee for my son’s mandrakes. And he slept with her that night.

17 E ouviu Deus a Leah, e concebeu, e pariu um quinto filho.

And God heard her prayers: and she conceived and bore the fifth son,

18 Então disse Leah: Deus me tem dado o meu galardão, pois tenho dado minha serva ao meu marido: e chamou o seu nome Issacar.

And said: God hath given me a reward, because I gave my handmaid to my husband. And she called his name Issachar.

19 E Leah concebeu outra vez, e pariu a Jacob um sexto filho.

And Lia conceived again, and bore the sixth son,

20 E disse Leah: Deus me deu a mim uma boa dádiva; desta vez morará o meu marido comigo, porque lhe tenho parido seis filhos: e chamou o seu nome Zebulon.

And said: God hath endowed me with a good dowry: this turn also my husband will be with me, because I have borne him six sons: and therefore she called his name Zabulon.

21 E depois pariu uma filha, e chamou o seu nome Dinah.

After whom she bore a daughter, named Dina.

22 E lembrou-se Deus de Rachel, e Deus a ouviu, e abriu a sua madre,

The Lord also remembering Rachel, heard her, and opened her womb.

23 E ela concebeu, e pariu um filho, e disse: Tirou-me Deus a minha vergonha.

And she conceived, and bore a son, saying: God hath taken away my reproach.

24 E chamou o seu nome José, dizendo: O Senhor me acrescente outro filho.

And she called his name Joseph, saying: The Lord give me also another son.

25 E aconteceu que, como Rachel pariu a José, disse Jacob a Labão: Deixa-me ir, que me vá ao meu lugar, e à minha terra.

And when Joseph was born, Jacob said to his father in law: Send me away that I may return into my country, and to my land.

26 Dá-me as minhas mulheres, e os meus filhos, pelas quais te tenho servido, e ir-me-ei; pois tu sabes o meu serviço, que te tenho feito.

Give me my wives, and my children, for whom I have served thee, that I may depart: thou knowest the service that I have rendered thee.

27 Então lhe disse Labão: Se agora tenho achado graça em teus olhos, fica comigo. Tenho experimentado que o Senhor me abençoou por amor de ti.

Laban said to him: Let me find favour in thy sight: I have learned by experience, that God hath blessed me for thy sake.

28 E disse mais: Determina-me o teu salário, que to darei.

Appoint thy wages which I shall give thee.

29 Então lhe disse: Tu sabes como te tenho servido, e como passou o teu gado comigo.

But he answered: Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how great thy possession hath been in my hands.

30 Porque o pouco que tinhas antes de mim, é aumentado até uma multidão: e o Senhor te tem abençoado por meu trabalho. Agora pois, quando hei de trabalhar também por minha casa?

Thou hadst but little before I came to thee, and now thou art become rich: and the Lord hath blessed thee at my coming. It is reasonable therefore that I should now provide also for my own house.

31 E disse ele: Que te darei? Então disse Jacob: Nada me darás; se me fizeres isto, tornarei a apascentar e a guardar o teu rebanho.

And Laban said: What shall I give thee? But he said: I require nothing: but if thou wilt do what I demand, I will feed, and keep thy sheep again.

32 Passarei hoje por todo o teu rebanho, separando dele todos os salpicados e malhados, e todos os morenos entre os cordeiros, e os malhados e salpicados entre as cabras: e isto será o meu salário.

Go round through all thy flocks, and separate all the sheep of divers colours, and speckled: and all that is brown and spotted, and of divers colours, as well among the sheep, as among the goats, shall be my wages.

33 Assim testificará por mim a minha justiça no dia de amanhã, quando vieres e o meu salário estiver diante de tua face: tudo o que não for salpicado e malhado entre as cabras e moreno entre os cordeiros, ser-me-á por furto.

And my justice shall answer for me tomorrow before thee when the time of the bargain shall come: and all that is not of divers colours, and spotted, and brown, as well among the sheep as among the goats, shall accuse me of theft.

34 Então disse Labão: Eis que oxalá seja conforme à tua palavra.

And Laban said: I like well what thou demandest.

35 E separou naquele mesmo dia os bodes listrados e malhados e todas as cabras salpicadas e malhadas, tudo em que havia brancura, e todo o moreno entre os cordeiros; e deu-os nas mãos dos seus filhos.

And he separated the same day the she goats, and the sheep, and the he goats, and the rams of divers colours, and spotted: and all the flock of one colour, that is, of white and black fleece, he delivered into the hands of his sons.

36 E pôs três dias de caminho entre si e Jacob: e Jacob apascentava o resto dos rebanhos de Labão.

And he set the space of three days’ journey betwixt himself and his son in law, who fed the rest of his flock.

37 Então tomou Jacob varas verdes de álamo, e de aveleira e de castanheiro, e descascou nelas riscas brancas, descobrindo a brancura que nas varas havia,

And Jacob took green rods of poplar, and of almond, and of plane trees, and pilled them in part: so when the bark was taken off, in the parts that were pilled, there appeared whiteness: but the parts that were whole remained green: and by this means the colour was divers.

38 E pôs estas varas, que tinha descascado, em frente do rebanho, nos canos e nas pias d'água, aonde o rebanho vinha a beber, e conceberam vindo a beber.

And he put them in the troughs, where the water was poured out: that when the flocks should come to drink, they might have the rods before their eyes, and in the sight of them might conceive.

39 E concebia o rebanho diante das varas, e as ovelhas pariam listrados, salpicados e malhados.

And it came to pass that in the very heat of coition, the sheep beheld the rods, and brought forth spotted, and of divers colours, and speckled.

40 Então separou Jacob os cordeiros, e pôs as faces do rebanho para os listrados, e todo o moreno entre o rebanho de Labão; e pôs o seu rebanho à parte, e não o pôs com o rebanho de Labão.

And Jacob separated the flock, and put the rods in the troughs before the eyes of the rams: and all the white and the black were Laban’s: and the rest were Jacob’s, when the flocks were separated one from the other.

41 E sucedia que cada vez que concebiam as ovelhas fortes, punha Jacob as varas diante dos olhos do rebanho nos canos, para que concebessem diante das varas.

So when the ewes went first to ram, Jacob put the rods in the troughs of water before the eyes of the rams, and of the ewes, that they might conceive while they were looking upon them:

42 Mas quando enfraqueceu o rebanho, não as pos. Assim as fracas eram de Labão, e as fortes de Jacob.

But when the latter coming was, and the last conceiving, he did not put them. And those that were lateward, became Laban’s: and they of the first time, Jacob’s.

43 E cresceu o varão em grande maneira, e teve muitos rebanhos, e servas, e servos, e camelos e jumentos.

And the man was enriched exceedingly, and he had many flocks, maid servants and men servants, camels and asses.