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拉結見自己不給雅各生子，就嫉妒她姐姐，對雅各說：「你給我孩子，不然我就死了。」 2 雅各向拉結生氣，說：「叫你不生育的是神，我豈能代替他做主呢？」 3 拉結說：「有我的使女辟拉在這裡，你可以與她同房，使她生子在我膝下，我便因她也得孩子。」 4 拉結就把她的使女辟拉給丈夫為妾，雅各便與她同房， 5 辟拉就懷孕，給雅各生了一個兒子。 6 拉結說：「神申了我的冤，也聽了我的聲音，賜我一個兒子。」因此給他起名叫但。 7 拉結的使女辟拉又懷孕，給雅各生了第二個兒子。 8 拉結說：「我與我姐姐大大相爭，並且得勝。」於是給他起名叫拿弗他利。

9 利亞見自己停了生育，就把使女悉帕給雅各為妾。 10 利亞的使女悉帕給雅各生了一個兒子。 11 利亞說：「萬幸！」於是給他起名叫迦得。 12 利亞的使女悉帕又給雅各生了第二個兒子。 13 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 割麥子的時候，魯本往田裡去，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 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 到了晚上，雅各從田裡回來，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 神應允了利亞，她就懷孕，給雅各生了第五個兒子。 18 利亞說：「神給了我價值，因為我把使女給了我丈夫。」於是給他起名叫以薩迦。 19 利亞又懷孕，給雅各生了第六個兒子。 20 利亞說：「神賜我厚賞，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 後來又生了一個女兒，給她起名叫底拿。 22 神顧念拉結，應允了她，使她能生育。 23 拉結懷孕生子，說：「神除去了我的羞恥。」 24 就給他起名叫約瑟，意思說：「願耶和華再增添我一個兒子。」

25 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 請你把我服侍你所得的妻子和兒女給我，讓我走。我怎樣服侍你，你都知道。」 27 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，耶和華賜福於我是為你的緣故。」 28 又說：「請你定你的工價，我就給你。」 29 雅各對他說：「我怎樣服侍你，你的牲畜在我手裡怎樣，是你知道的。 30 我未來之先，你所有的很少，現今卻發達眾多，耶和華隨我的腳步賜福於你。如今，我什麼時候才為自己興家立業呢？」 31 拉班說：「我當給你什麼呢？」雅各說：「什麼你也不必給我，只有一件事，你若應承，我便仍舊牧放你的羊群。 32 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 以後你來查看我的工價，凡在我手裡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 拉班說：「好啊，我情願照著你的話行。」 35 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 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 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 將剝了皮的枝子，對著羊群，插在飲羊的水溝裡和水槽裡，羊來喝的時候，牝牡配合。 39 羊對著枝子配合，就生下有紋的、有點的、有斑的來。 40 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 到羊群肥壯配合的時候，雅各就把枝子插在水溝裡，使羊對著枝子配合， 42 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 於是雅各極其發達，得了許多的羊群、僕婢、駱駝和驢。

Genesis 30

Now when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister, and said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I die!”

2 And Jacob’s anger was aroused against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

3 So she said, “Here is my maid Bilhah; go in to her, and she will bear a child on my knees, that I also may have children by her.” 4 Then she gave him Bilhah her maid as wife, and Jacob went in to her. 5 And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son. 6 Then Rachel said, “God has judged my case; and He has also heard my voice and given me a son.” Therefore she called his name Dan. 7 And Rachel’s maid Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son. 8 Then Rachel said, “With great wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and indeed I have prevailed.” So she called his name Naphtali.

9 When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, she took Zilpah her maid and gave her to Jacob as wife. 10 And Leah’s maid Zilpah bore Jacob a son. 11 Then Leah said, “A troop comes!” So she called his name Gad. 12 And Leah’s maid Zilpah bore Jacob a second son. 13 Then Leah said, “I am happy, for the daughters will call me blessed.” So she called his name Asher.

14 Now 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.”

15 But she said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes also?”

And Rachel said, “Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son’s mandrakes.”

16 When Jacob came out of the field in the evening, 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.” And he lay with her that night.

17 And God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son. 18 Leah said, “God has given me my wages, because I have given my maid to my husband.” So she called his name Issachar. 19 Then Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a sixth son. 20 And Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good endowment; now my husband will dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons.” So she called his name Zebulun. 21 Afterward she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah.

22 Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb. 23 And she conceived and bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach.” 24 So she called his name Joseph, and said, “The Lord shall add to me another son.”

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 own place and to my country. 26 Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service which I have done for you.”

27 And Laban said to him, “Please stay, if I have found favor in your eyes, for I have learned by experience that the Lord has blessed me for your sake.” 28 Then he said, “Name me your wages, and I will give it.”

29 So Jacob said to him, “You know how I have served you and how your livestock has been with me. 30 For what you had before I came was little, and it has increased to a great amount; the Lord has blessed you since my coming. And now, when shall I also provide for my own house?”

31 So he said, “What shall I give you?”

And Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep your flocks: 32 Let me pass through all your flock today, removing from there all the speckled and spotted sheep, and all the brown ones among the lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and these shall be my wages. 33 So my righteousness will answer for me in time to come, when the subject of my wages comes before you: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the lambs, will be considered stolen, if it is with me.”

34 And Laban said, “Oh, that it were according to your word!” 35 So he removed that day the male goats that were speckled and spotted, all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had some white in it, and all the brown ones among the lambs, and gave them into the hand of his sons. 36 Then he put three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.

37 Now Jacob took for himself rods of green poplar and of the almond and chestnut trees, peeled white strips in them, and exposed the white which was in the rods. 38 And the rods which he had peeled, he set before the flocks in the gutters, in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink, so that they should conceive when they came to drink. 39 So the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted. 40 Then Jacob separated the lambs, and made the flocks face toward the streaked and all the brown in the flock of Laban; but he put his own flocks by themselves and did not put them with Laban’s flock.

41 And it came to pass, whenever the stronger livestock conceived, that Jacob placed the rods before the eyes of the livestock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods. 42 But when the flocks were feeble, he did not put them in; so the feebler were Laban’s and the stronger Jacob’s. 43 Thus the man became exceedingly prosperous, and had large flocks, female and male servants, and camels and donkeys.