1 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die. 2 And Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God’s stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb? 3 And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her. 4 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her. 5 And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son. 6 And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan. 7 And Bilhah Rachel’s maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son. 8 And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali. 9 When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife. 10 And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a son. 11 And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad. 12 And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a second son. 13 And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: 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 unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son’s mandrakes. 15 And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son’s mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son’s mandrakes. 16 And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son’s mandrakes. And he lay with her that night. 17 And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son. 18 And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar. 19 And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son. 20 And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun. 21 And afterwards she bare 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 bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach: 24 And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son.

25 And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine 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 knowest my service which I have done thee. 27 And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake. 28 And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it. 29 And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me. 30 For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also? 31 And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock: 32 I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle 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 in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me. 34 And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word. 35 And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons. 36 And he set three days’ journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.

37 And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods. 38 And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink. 39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted. 40 And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban’s cattle. 41 And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods. 42 But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s. 43 And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.

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.