Genesis 30
1 Then Rachel, discerning that she was infertile, envied her sister, and so she said to her husband, “Give me children, otherwise I will die.”
拉結見自己不給雅各生子，就嫉妒她姊姊，對雅各說：「你給我孩子，不然我就死了。」
2 Jacob, being angry, responded to her, “Am I in the place of God, who has deprived you of the fruit of your womb?”
雅各向拉結生氣，說：「叫你不生育的是上帝，我豈能代替他作主呢？」
3 But she said: “I have a handmaid Bilhah. Go in to her, so that she may give birth upon my knees, and I may have sons by her.”
拉結說：「有我的使女辟拉在這裏，你可以與她同房，使她生子在我膝下，我便因她也得孩子。」
4 And she gave him Bilhah in marriage.
拉結就把她的使女辟拉給丈夫為妾；雅各便與她同房，
5 And when her husband had gone in to her, she conceived and bore a son.
辟拉就懷孕，給雅各生了一個兒子。
6 And Rachel said, “The Lord has judged for me, and he has heeded my voice, giving me a son.” And because of this, she called his name Dan.
拉結說：「上帝伸了我的冤，也聽了我的聲音，賜我一個兒子」，因此給他起名叫但。
7 And conceiving again, Bilhah bore another,
拉結的使女辟拉又懷孕，給雅各生了第二個兒子。
8 about whom Rachel said, “God has compared me with my sister, and I have prevailed.” And she called him Naphtali.
拉結說：「我與我姊姊大大相爭，並且得勝」，於是給他起名叫拿弗他利。
9 Leah, perceiving that she had desisted from child-bearing, delivered Zilpah, her handmaid, to her husband.
利亞見自己停了生育，就把使女悉帕給雅各為妾。
10 And she, after having borne a son with difficulty,
利亞的使女悉帕給雅各生了一個兒子。
11 said: “Happiness!” And for this reason, she called his name Gad.
利亞說：「萬幸！」於是給他起名叫迦得 。
12 Likewise, Zilpah bore another.
利亞的使女悉帕又給雅各生了第二個兒子。
13 And Leah said, “This one is for my happiness. Indeed, women will call me blessed.” Because of this, she called him Asher.
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 Then Reuben, going out into the field at the time of the wheat harvest, found mandrakes. These he brought to his mother Leah. And Rachel said, “Give me a portion of your son’s mandrakes.”
割麥子的時候，呂便往田裏去，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 She responded, “Does it seem like such a small matter to you, that you have usurped from me my husband, unless you will also take my son’s mandrakes?” Rachel said, “He will sleep with you this night because of your son’s mandrakes.”
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 And when Jacob returned from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him, and she said, “You will enter to me, because I have hired you for the reward of my son’s mandrakes.” And he slept with her that night.
到了晚上，雅各從田裏回來，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 And God heard her prayers. And she conceived and bore a fifth son.
上帝應允了利亞，她就懷孕，給雅各生了第五個兒子。
18 And she said, “God has given a reward to me, because I gave my handmaid to my husband.” And she called his name Issachar.
利亞說：「上帝給了我價值，因為我把使女給了我丈夫」，於是給他起名叫以薩迦。
19 Conceiving again, Leah bore a sixth son.
利亞又懷孕，給雅各生了第六個兒子。
20 And she said: “God has endowed me with a good dowry. And now, at this turn, my husband will be with me, because I have conceived six sons for him.” And therefore she called his name Zebulun.
利亞說：「上帝賜我厚賞；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 After him, she bore a daughter, named Dinah.
後來又生了一個女兒，給她起名叫底拿。
22 The Lord, likewise remembering Rachel, heeded her and opened her womb.
上帝顧念拉結，應允了她，使她能生育。
23 And she conceived and bore a son, saying, “God has taken away my reproach.”
拉結懷孕生子，說：「上帝除去了我的羞恥」，
24 And she called his name Joseph, saying, “The Lord has added to me another son.”
就給他起名叫約瑟，意思說：「願耶和華再增添我一個兒子。」
25 But when Joseph was born, Jacob said to his father-in-law: “Release me, so that I may return to my native country and to my land.
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 Give me my wives, and my children, for whom I have served you, so that I may depart. You know the servitude with which I have served you.”
請你把我服事你所得的妻子和兒女給我，讓我走；我怎樣服事你，你都知道。」
27 Laban said to him: “May I find grace in your sight. I have learned by experience that God has blessed me because of you.
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，耶和華賜福與我是為你的緣故」；
28 Choose your wages, which I will give you.”
又說：「請你定你的工價，我就給你。」
29 But he responded: “You know how I have served you, and how great your possession became in my hands.
雅各對他說：「我怎樣服事你，你的牲畜在我手裏怎樣，是你知道的。
30 You had little before I came to you, and now you have achieved riches. And the Lord has blessed you since my arrival. It is just, therefore, that at some time I also should provide for my own house.”
我未來之先，你所有的很少，現今卻發大眾多，耶和華隨我的腳步賜福與你。如今，我甚麼時候才為自己興家立業呢？」
31 And Laban said, “What shall I give to you?” But he said, “I want nothing. But if you will do what I ask, I will feed and guard your sheep again.
拉班說：「我當給你甚麼呢？」雅各說：「甚麼你也不必給我，只有一件事，你若應承，我便仍舊牧放你的羊群。
32 Go around through all your flocks and separate all the sheep of variegated or spotted fleece; and whatever will be darkened or blemished or variegated, as much among the sheep as among the goats, will be my wages.
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 And my justice will answer on my behalf tomorrow, when the time of settlement arrives before you. And all that is not variegated or blemished or darkened, as much among the sheep as among the goats, these will prove me to be a thief.”
以後你來查看我的工價，凡在我手裏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 And Laban said, “I hold favor for this request.”
拉班說：「好啊！我情願照着你的話行。」
35 And on that day he separated the she-goats, and the sheep, and the he-goats, and the rams with variegations or with blemishes. But every one of the flock which was of one color, that is, of white or of black fleece, he delivered into the hands of his sons.
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 And he established a distance of three days journey between himself and his son-in-law, who pastured the remainder of his flock.
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 Then Jacob, taking green branches of poplar, and almond, and sycamore trees, debarked them in part. And when the bark was pulled off, in the parts that were stripped, there appeared whiteness, yet the parts that were left whole, remained green. And so, in this way the color was made variegated.
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 And he placed them in the troughs, where the water was poured out, so that when the flocks had arrived to drink, they would have the branches before their eyes, and in their sight they might conceive.
將剝了皮的枝子，對着羊群，插在飲羊的水溝裏和水槽裏，羊來喝的時候，牝牡配合。
39 And it happened that, in the very heat of joining together, the sheep looked upon the branches, and they bore the blemished and the variegated, those speckled with diverse color.
羊對着枝子配合，就生下有紋的、有點的、有斑的來。
40 And Jacob divided the flock, and he set the branches in the troughs before the eyes of the rams. Now whatever was white or black belonged to Laban, but, in truth, the others belonged to Jacob, for the flocks were dispersed among one another.
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 Therefore, when the first to arrive were climbing on the ewes, Jacob placed the branches in the troughs of water before the eyes of the rams and the sheep, so that they might conceive while they were gazing upon them.
到羊群肥壯配合的時候，雅各就把枝子插在水溝裏，使羊對着枝子配合。
42 Yet when the late arrivals and the last to conceive were let in, he did not place these. And so those that arrived late became Laban’s, and those that arrived first became Jacob’s.
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 And the man was enriched beyond limit, and he had many flocks, women servants and men servants, camels and donkeys.
於是雅各極其發大，得了許多的羊群、僕婢、駱駝，和驢。
