1 Vendo Raquel que não dava filhos a Jacó, teve inveja de sua irmã, e disse a Jacó: Dá-me filhos, se não morro.
2 Então se acendeu a ira de Jacó contra Raquel, e disse: Estou eu no lugar de Deus, que te impediu o fruto de teu ventre?
3 E ela disse: Eis aqui minha serva Bila; coabita com ela, para que dê à luz sobre meus joelhos, e eu assim receba filhos por ela.
4 Assim lhe deu a Bila, sua serva, por mulher; e Jacó a possuiu.
5 E concebeu Bila, e deu a Jacó um filho.
6 Então disse Raquel: Julgou-me Deus, e também ouviu a minha voz, e me deu um filho; por isso chamou-lhe Dã.
7 E Bila, serva de Raquel, concebeu outra vez, e deu a Jacó o segundo filho.
8 Então disse Raquel: Com grandes lutas tenho lutado com minha irmã; também venci; e chamou-lhe Naftali.
9 Vendo, pois, Lia que cessava de ter filhos, tomou também a Zilpa, sua serva, e deu-a a Jacó por mulher.
10 E deu Zilpa, serva de Lia, um filho a Jacó.
11 Então disse Lia: Afortunada! e chamou-lhe Gade.
12 Depois deu Zilpa, serva de Lia, um segundo filho a Jacó.
13 Então disse Lia: Para minha ventura; porque as filhas me terão por bem-aventurada; e chamou-lhe Aser.
14 E foi Rúben nos dias da ceifa do trigo, e achou mandrágoras no campo. E trouxe-as a Lia sua mãe. Então disse Raquel a Lia: Ora dá-me das mandrágoras de teu filho.
15 E ela lhe disse: É já pouco que hajas tomado o meu marido, tomarás também as mandrágoras do meu filho? Então disse Raquel: Por isso ele se deitará contigo esta noite pelas mandrágoras de teu filho.
16 Vindo, pois, Jacó à tarde do campo, saiu-lhe Lia ao encontro, e disse: A mim possuirás, esta noite, porque certamente te aluguei com as mandrágoras do meu filho. E deitou-se com ela aquela noite.
17 E ouviu Deus a Lia, e concebeu, e deu à luz um quinto filho.
18 Então disse Lia: Deus me tem dado o meu galardão, pois tenho dado minha serva ao meu marido. E chamou-lhe Issacar.
19 E Lia concebeu outra vez, e deu a Jacó um sexto filho.
20 E disse Lia: Deus me deu uma boa dádiva; desta vez morará o meu marido comigo, porque lhe tenho dado seis filhos. E chamou-lhe Zebulom.
21 E depois teve uma filha, e chamou-lhe Diná.
22 E lembrou-se Deus de Raquel; e Deus a ouviu, e abriu a sua madre.
23 E ela concebeu, e deu à luz um filho, e disse: Tirou-me Deus a minha vergonha.
24 E chamou-lhe José, dizendo: O Senhor me acrescente outro filho.
25 E aconteceu que, como Raquel deu à luz a José, disse Jacó a Labão: Deixa-me ir, que me vá ao meu lugar, e à minha terra.
26 Dá-me as minhas mulheres, e os meus filhos, pelas quais te tenho servido, e ir-me-ei; pois tu sabes o serviço que te tenho feito.
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.
28 E disse mais: Determina-me o teu salário, que to darei.
29 Então lhe disse: Tu sabes como te tenho servido, e como passou o teu gado comigo.
30 Porque o pouco que tinhas antes de mim tem aumentado em grande número; e o SENHOR te tem abençoado por meu trabalho. Agora, pois, quando hei de trabalhar também por minha casa?
31 E disse ele: Que te darei? Então disse Jacó: Nada me darás. Se me fizeres isto, tornarei a apascentar e a guardar o teu rebanho;
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.
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.
34 Então disse Labão: Quem dera seja conforme a tua palavra.
35 E separou naquele mesmo dia os bodes listrados e malhados e todas as cabras salpicadas e malhadas, todos em que havia brancura, e todos os morenos entre os cordeiros; e deu-os nas mãos dos seus filhos.
36 E pôs três dias de caminho entre si e Jacó; e Jacó apascentava o restante dos rebanhos de Labão.
37 Então tomou Jacó varas verdes de álamo e de aveleira e de castanheiro, e descascou nelas riscas brancas, descobrindo a brancura que nas varas havia,
38 E pôs estas varas, que tinha descascado, em frente aos rebanhos, nos canos e nos bebedouros de água, aonde os rebanhos vinham beber, para que concebessem quando vinham beber.
39 E concebiam os rebanhos diante das varas, e as ovelhas davam crias listradas, salpicadas e malhadas.
40 Então separou Jacó 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.
41 E sucedia que cada vez que concebiam as ovelhas fortes, punha Jacó as varas nos canos, diante dos olhos do rebanho, para que concebessem diante das varas.
42 Mas, quando era fraco o rebanho, não as punha. Assim as fracas eram de Labão, e as fortes de Jacó.
43 E cresceu o homem em grande maneira, e teve muitos rebanhos, e servas, e servos, e camelos e jumentos.
1 And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no sons, Rachel envied her sister, and she said to Jacob, Give me sons, or else I die.
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?
3 And she said, Behold, my maid Bilhah, go in to her, that she may bear upon my knees, and I also may obtain sons by her.
4 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife, and Jacob went in to her.
5 And Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.
6 And Rachel said, God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son. Therefore she called his name Dan.
7 And Bilhah Rachel's handmaid conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.
8 And Rachel said, With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed. And she called his name Naphtali.
9 When Leah saw that she had left off bearing, she took Zilpah her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob to wife.
10 And Zilpah Leah's handmaid bore Jacob a son.
11 And Leah said, Fortunate! And she called his name Gad.
12 And Zilpah Leah's handmaid bore Jacob a second son.
13 And Leah said, Happy am I! For the daughters will call me happy. And she called his name Asher.
14 And 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, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.
15 And she said to her, Is it a small matter that thou have taken away my husband? And would thou take away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lay with thee tonight for thy son's mandrakes.
16 And Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in to me, for I have surely hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.
17 And God hearkened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.
18 And Leah said, God has given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband. And she called his name Issachar.
19 And Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.
20 And Leah said, God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons. And she called his name Zebulun.
21 And afterwards she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
22 And God remembered Rachel. And God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.
23 And she conceived, and bore a son, and said, God has taken away my reproach.
24 And she called his name Joseph, saying, LORD adds another son to me.
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 thee, and let me go, for thou know my service with which I have served thee.
27 And Laban said to him, If now I have found favor in thine eyes, [tarry, for] I have learned by experience that LORD has blessed me for thy sake.
28 And he said, Appoint for me thy wages, and I will give it.
29 And he said to him, Thou know how I have served thee, and how thy cattle have fared with me.
30 For it was little which thou had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude, and LORD has blessed thee wherever I turned. And now when shall I provide for my own house also?
31 And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shall not give me anything. If thou will do this thing for me, I will again feed thy flock and keep it.
32 I will pass through all thy 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, and [of such] shall be my hire.
33 So shall my righteousness answer for me after this, when thou shall come concerning my hire that is before thee. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that [is] with me, shall be con
34 And Laban said, Behold, O that it might be according to thy word.
35 And he removed that day the he-goats that were ringstreaked and spotted, and all the she-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 h
36 And he set three days' journey between himself and Jacob. And Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
37 And Jacob took for him rods of fresh poplar, and of the almond and of the plane tree, and peeled white streaks in them, and made the white which was in the rods appear.
38 And he set the rods which he had peeled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. And they conceived when they came to drink.
39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted.
40 And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstreaked and all the black in the flock of Laban. And he put his own herds apart, and did not put them near Laban's flock.
41 And it came to pass, whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods,
42 but when the flock were weak, he did not put them in. So the weaker were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
43 And the man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, and maid-servants and men-servants, and camels and donkeys.