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¹When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she became jealous of her sister. So she said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I’ll die!”
²Jacob became angry with her and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?”
³Then she said, “Here is Bilhah, my servant. Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and I too can build a family through her.”
⁴So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife. Jacob slept with her, ⁵and she became pregnant and bore him a son. ⁶Then Rachel said, “God has vindicated me; he has listened to my plea and given me a son.” Because of this she named him Dan.⚓
⁷Rachel’s servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son. ⁸Then Rachel said, “I have had a great struggle with my sister, and I have won.” So she named him Naphtali.⚓
⁹When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took her servant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife. ¹⁰Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son. ¹¹Then Leah said, “What good fortune!”⚓ So she named him Gad.⚓
¹²Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son. ¹³Then Leah said, “How happy I am! The women will call me happy.” So she named him Asher.⚓
¹⁴During wheat harvest, Reuben went out into the fields and found some mandrake plants, which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”
¹⁵But she said to her, “Wasn’t it enough that you took away my husband? Will you take my son’s mandrakes too?”
“Very well,” Rachel said, “he can sleep with you tonight in return for your son’s mandrakes.”
¹⁶So when Jacob came in from the fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him. “You must sleep with me,” she said. “I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he slept with her that night.
¹⁷God listened to Leah, and she became pregnant and bore Jacob a fifth son. ¹⁸Then Leah said, “God has rewarded me for giving my servant to my husband.” So she named him Issachar.⚓
¹⁹Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a sixth son. ²⁰Then Leah said, “God has presented me with a precious gift. This time my husband will treat me with honor, because I have borne him six sons.” So she named him Zebulun.⚓
²¹Some time later she gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah.
²²Then God remembered Rachel; he listened to her and enabled her to conceive. ²³She became pregnant and gave birth to a son and said, “God has taken away my disgrace.” ²⁴She named him Joseph,⚓ and said, “May the Lord add to me another son.”

Jacob’s Flocks Increase

²⁵After Rachel gave birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so I can go back to my own homeland. ²⁶Give me my wives and children, for whom I have served you, and I will be on my way. You know how much work I’ve done for you.”
²⁷But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me because of you.” ²⁸He added, “Name your wages, and I will pay them.”
²⁹Jacob said to him, “You know how I have worked for you and how your livestock has fared under my care. ³⁰The little you had before I came has increased greatly, and the Lord has blessed you wherever I have been. But now, when may I do something for my own household?”
³¹“What shall I give you?” he asked.
“Don’t give me anything,” Jacob replied. “But if you will do this one thing for me, I will go on tending your flocks and watching over them: ³²Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb and every spotted or speckled goat. They will be my wages. ³³And my honesty will testify for me in the future, whenever you check on the wages you have paid me. Any goat in my possession that is not speckled or spotted, or any lamb that is not dark-colored, will be considered stolen.”
³⁴“Agreed,” said Laban. “Let it be as you have said.” ³⁵That same day he removed all the male goats that were streaked or spotted, and all the speckled or spotted female goats (all that had white on them) and all the dark-colored lambs, and he placed them in the care of his sons. ³⁶Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob continued to tend the rest of Laban’s flocks.
³⁷Jacob, however, took fresh-cut branches from poplar, almond and plane trees and made white stripes on them by peeling the bark and exposing the white inner wood of the branches. ³⁸Then he placed the peeled branches in all the watering troughs, so that they would be directly in front of the flocks when they came to drink. When the flocks were in heat and came to drink, ³⁹they mated in front of the branches. And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted. ⁴⁰Jacob set apart the young of the flock by themselves, but made the rest face the streaked and dark-colored animals that belonged to Laban. Thus he made separate flocks for himself and did not put them with Laban’s animals. ⁴¹Whenever the stronger females were in heat, Jacob would place the branches in the troughs in front of the animals so they would mate near the branches, ⁴²but if the animals were weak, he would not place them there. So the weak animals went to Laban and the strong ones to Jacob. ⁴³In this way the man grew exceedingly prosperous and came to own large flocks, and female and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

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¹Tơ lah H'Rachel saơ păng mâu deh kon ma Y-Yakôb ôh, păng mô nach ma nur păng; jêh ri păng lah ma Y-Yakôb: "Ăn phung kon ma gâp mâu lah gâp khĭt." ²Y-Yakôb hao nuih, ji nuih ma H'Rachel jêh ri lah: "Gâp hĕ jêng Brah Ndu, nơm dun ăn kon ma ay?" ³H'Rachel lah: "Aơ n'hat na bu ur gâp H'Bilha. Gŭ hom ndrel păng, gay ma păng dơi deh kon ta kômâk gâp, jêh ri ma gâp mra geh phung kon đŏng bơh păng." ⁴H'Rachel ăn H'Bilha n'hat na bu ur păng jêng ur Y-Yakôb, jêh ri Y-Yakôb hăn gŭ ndrel păng. ⁵H'Bilha ntreo jêh ri deh ma du huê kon bu klâu ma Y-Yakôb. ⁶H'Rachel lah, Brah Ndu sek uănh nau gâp sŏng jêh. Păng tăng jêh bâr gâp jêh ri ăn ma gâp du huê kon bu klâu." Yor nây păng tâm amoh kon nây Y-Dan. ⁷H'Bilha n'hat na bu ur H'Rachel ntreo đŏng jêh ri deh ma du huê kon bu klâu tal bar ma Y-Yakôb. ⁸H'Rachel lah: "Gâp tâm nhăt katang đah nur gâp, jêh ri gâp dơi jêh." Pô ri păng tâm amoh kon nây Y-Naptali.
⁹Tơ lah H'Lêa saơ jêh păng rlu ntreo, ¹⁰păng sŏk H'Silpa n'hat na bu ur H'Lêa deh du huê kon bu klâu ma Y-Yakôb. ¹¹H'Lêa lah: "Nau ueh uĭn ngăn". Pô ri păng tâm amoh Y-Gat. ¹²H'Silpa n'hat na bu ur H'Lêa deh du huê kon bu klâu tal bar ma Y-Yakôb. ¹³H'Lêa lah: "Maak ngăn gâp! Yorlah phung bu ur mra rnha gâp nơm maak." Pô ri păng tâm amoh Y-Aser.
¹⁴Y-Ruben hăn tâm mir dôl yăn kăch ba ƀlê. Păng saơ play bum mandragôr jêh ri păng djôt play nây ma H'Lêa me păng. H'Rachel lah ma H'Lêa: "Ăn ma gâp ƀă play bum mandragôr kon ay." ¹⁵H'Lêa lah ma păng: "Ê tŏng hĕ ay sŏk jêh sai gâp? Ƀiălah ay ŭch sŏk play bum mandragôr kon gâp đŏng?" H'Rachel lah: "Pô ri Y-Yakôb mra bêch ndrel ay măng aơ gay ma gâp dơi geh play bum mandragôr kon ay." ¹⁶Tơ lah Y-Yakôb sĭt ta bơh mir kĕng măng, H'Lêa luh hăn tâm mâp đah păng jêh ri lah: "May mra văch bêch ndrel ma gâp, yorlah gâp lĕ rvăt jêh may ma bum mandragôr kon gâp." Pô ri Y-Yakôb ndrel ma H'Lêa măng nây. ¹⁷Brah Ndu tăng H'Lêa ntreo jêh ri deh kon bu klâu tal prăm ma Y-Yakôb. ¹⁸H'Lêa lah, Brah Ndu nkhôm jêh gâp, yorlah gâp ăn n'hat na bu ur gâp ma sai gâp." Pô ri păng tâm amoh Y-Isakar. ¹⁹H'Lêa ntreo đŏng jêh ri deh kon bu klâu tal prau ma Y-Yakôb. ²⁰H'Lêa lah, Brah Ndu ăn drăp ndơ khlay ngăn ma gâp, aƀaơ sai gâp mra yơk ma gâp, yorlah gâp deh jêh ma păng prau nuyh kon bu klâu." Pô ri păng tâm amoh Sabulôn. ²¹Jêh ma nây păng deh du huê kon bu ur jêh ri tâm amoh H'Dina. ²²Jêh ri Brah Ndu kah gĭt ma H'Rachel. Păng iăt nau jêh ri ăn păng ntreo. ²³Păng ntreo jêh ri deh du huê kon bu klâu jêh ri lah: "Brah Ndu sŏk lơi jêh nau bêk gâp." ²⁴Păng amoh kon se nây Y-Yôsep, lah: "Gay ma Brah Ndu ntop đŏng an ma gâp du huê kon bu klâu êng."

Nau Tâm Di Y-Laban Đah Y-Yakôb

²⁵Jêh H'Rachel deh ma Y-Yôsep, Y-Yakôb lah ma Y-Laban: "Ăn gâp hăn gay gâp dơi sĭt ta ntŭk gâp nơm tâm n'gor gâp. ²⁶ăn ma gâp phung ur gâp jêh ri phung kon gâp; yor ŭch geh phung nây yơh gâp pah kan jêh ma may, jêh ri ăn gâp hăn; yorlah may gĭt jêh kan gâp kơl may." ²⁷Y-Laban lah ma păng: "Ăn gâp lah nau aơ; gâp gĭt ma nau n'geh Yêhôva ăn jêh nau ueh uĭn ma gâp yor may. ²⁸Lah hom mdah âk gâp mra nkhôm may jêh ri gâp mra ăn." ²⁹Y-Yakôb lah ma păng: "May gĭt jêh mâm nau gâp pah kan ma may, moh mpô mpa may rong jêng jêh yor gâp, ³⁰yorlah may geh djê̆ dơm ndơ lor ma gâp tât, Ƀiălah păng hao jêng âk. Yêhôva ăn jêh nau ueh uĭn ta ntŭk gâp hăn. Bi aƀaơ aơ ndah jŏ gâp mra geh ndơ ma ngih gâp nơm?" ³¹Y-Laban lah: "Moh ndơ gâp mra ăn ma may? Y-Yakôb lah, may mâu mra ăn ndơ ma gâp ôh. Tơ lah may mra ƀư pô aơ ma gâp, gâp mra lchiăp đŏng ôh biăp may. ³²Nar aơ gâp mra hăn ta nklang lĕ rngôch biăp may ŭch dơm rnglah êng lĕ rngôch biăp rvanh jêh ri ƀlak, lĕ rngôch biăp krăk, jêh ri lĕ rngôch be rvanh jêh ri ƀlak. Ndơ nây mra jêng ndơ nkhôm gâp. ³³Pô ri nau sŏng srăng gâp mra tâm mpơl ma gâp bah kơi; tơ lah may mra văch uănh ndơ nkhôm gâp. Lĕ rngôch be mâu geh rvanh jêh ri ƀlak, lĕ rngôch biăp mâu geh krăkmra kơp tâm ban ma gâp ntŭng." ³⁴Y-Laban lah: "Ueh jêh ăn nau nây jêng tĭng nâm nau may ngơi." ³⁵Nar nây lĕ Y-Laban tâm nkhah be nkuăng rvanh jêh ri ƀlak jêh ri lĕ rngôch be me rvanh jêh ri ƀlak, lĕ rngôch be nkuăng geh ntŭk nglang jêh ri lĕ rngôch biăp krăk. Păng jao ndơ nây ma ti phung kon bu klâu păng. ³⁶Păng ăn ƀah ngai pe nar hăn păng đah Y-Yakôb. Y-Yakôb chiăp biăp Y-Laban hôm e.
³⁷Y-Yakôb sŏk n'gĭng ndrêh tơm ai pôplar, amandê, jêh ri platan, păng koch ntâu n'gĭng si nây mpơl ntŭk nglang. ³⁸Păng dơm n'gĭng si nây tâm pa năp biăp pa, kêng, jêng ntŭk bong dak, jêng ntŭk khân păng hăn văch nhêt dak. ³⁹Biăp tâm gar ta năp n'gĭng si nây jêh ri khân păng deh kon rvanh ƀrưnh jêh ri ƀlak. ⁴⁰Y-Yakôb tâm nkhah lĕ rngôch kon biăp nây jêh ri păng dơm ndrel ma biăp rvanh jêh ri krăk tâm biăp Y-Yakôb; ƀiălah păng dơm êng biăp păng nơm. Păng mâu tâm srŭk ƀiăp păng nơm đah biăp Y-Laban ôh. ⁴¹Tơ lah biăp katang lơn tâm gar Y-Yakôb dơm n'gĭng si tâm nor ta năp măt khân păng gay ma khân păng tâm gar ta năp n'gĭng si. ⁴²Ƀiălah tơ lah biăp ra ai, păng mâu dơm ndrel ôh. Pô ri biăp ra ai lơn jêng ndơ Y-Laban, jêh ri biăp katang lơn jêng ndơ Y-Yakôb. ⁴³Pô ri Y-Yakôb hao ndrŏng ngăn. Păng geh biăp âk, phung n'hat na bu ur, phung n'hat na bu klâu, seh samô jêh ri seh bri.