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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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¹Tữ Rachel dáng án tỡ bữn bữn con; ngkíq án sa‑on tễ ỡi án. Chơ án atỡng Yacốp neq: “Sễq mới yỗn cứq bữn con tê. Khân tỡ bữn ngkíq, cứq yoc ễ cuchĩt chíq.”
²Yacốp nhôp Rachel, cớp pai neq: “Nŏ́q cứq têq pláih chớc Yiang Sursĩ tỡ yỗn mới bữn con tỡ? Bữn Yiang Sursĩ toâp yỗn mới cỡt cũt.”
³Rachel atỡng Yacốp neq: “Nâi la Bil-ha, mansễm táq ranáq yỗn cứq; o mới bếq cớp án, yỗn án têq canỡt con yỗn cứq bán.”
⁴Ngkíq Rachel chiau Bil-ha yỗn Yacốp táq lacuoi. Chơ Yacốp bếq cớp Bil-ha. ⁵Bil-ha ỡt mumiaq, cớp án canỡt muoi lám con samiang yỗn Yacốp. ⁶Ngkíq, Rachel pai neq: “Yiang Sursĩ rasữq pĩeiq lứq tễ ranáq cứq. Án sâng sưong cứq câu, cớp án yỗn cứq bữn muoi lám con samiang tê.”
Chơ án amứh con ki la Dan.⚓
⁷Bil-ha, la cũai táq ranáq yỗn Rachel, ỡt mumiaq sĩa; cớp án canỡt muoi lám con samiang ễn yỗn Yacốp. ⁸Chơ Rachel pai neq: “Cứq khoiq tampling cớp ỡi cứq, ma cứq riap chơ.”
Ngkíq, án amứh con samiang ki la Nep-tali.⚓
⁹Tữ Lê-a dáng án tỡ bữn canỡt noâng con, ngkíq án yỗn Sil-pa, la cũai táq ranáq yỗn án, yỗn cỡt lacuoi Yacốp tê. ¹⁰Chơ Sil-pa canỡt muoi noaq con samiang yỗn Yacốp. ¹¹Lê-a pai neq: “Ŏ́c o lứq toâq pỡ cứq.”
Ngkíq, án amứh con samiang ki la Cát.⚓
¹²Chơ Sil-pa canỡt muoi lám con samiang sĩa yỗn Yacốp. ¹³Lê-a pai neq: “Cứq bữn ŏ́c bũi lứq; sanua tỗp mansễm ca hữm cứq pai cứq bũi lứq.”
Ngkíq, án amứh con samiang ki la Asêr.⚓
¹⁴Toâq muo noau susot, Ruben loŏh pỡ ruang ramóh muoi thữ palâi ca chuai yỗn cũai cũt bữn loah con. Ngkíq án dững achu palâi ki yỗn Lê-a, mpiq án. Chơ Rachel sễq tễ Lê-a neq: “Sễq mới yỗn cứq nứng palâi con samiang mới achu ki.”
¹⁵Ma Lê-a ta‑ỡi Rachel neq: “Nŏ́q mới cheng ĩt cayac cứq, noâng yũah dũ tỡ? Sanua mới noâng ễ bữn ễn palâi tễ con cứq dững achu.”
Ma Rachel ta‑ỡi neq: “Khân mới yỗn cứq bữn palâi con mới dững achu, sadâu nâi cứq yỗn cayac hái pỡq bếq cớp mới.”
¹⁶Toâq tabữ, bo Yacốp chu tễ sarái, Lê-a pỡq ramóh án, cớp atỡng án neq: “Sadâu nâi cóq mới bếq cớp cứq, yuaq cứq khoiq yỗn Rachel palâi con samiang cứq dững achu. Rachel khoiq pruam cớp cứq.”
Chơ sadâu ki Yacốp bếq cớp Lê-a.
¹⁷Yiang Sursĩ sâng máh santoiq Lê-a câu. Chơ Lê-a ỡt mumiaq loah, cớp canỡt con samiang yỗn Yacốp sĩa. Nâi la con lám sỡng Lê-a canỡt. ¹⁸Chơ Lê-a pai neq: “Yiang Sursĩ yỗn cứq bữn roap cóng chơ, cỗ cứq khoiq yỗn mansễm táq ranáq cứq cỡt lacuoi cayac cứq.”
Ngkíq, án amứh con samiang ki la I-sacar.⚓
¹⁹Vớt ki Lê-a ỡt mumiaq sĩa, án canỡt con samiang ễn yỗn Yacốp. Chơ Lê-a bữn tapoât náq con samiang cớp Yacốp. ²⁰Chơ Lê-a pai neq: “Yiang Sursĩ yỗn cứq bữn muoi ramứh moat lứq. Trỗ nâi cayac cứq ễ yám noap cứq, cỗ cứq khoiq canỡt con samiang yỗn án tapoât náq chơ.”
Ngkíq, án amứh con ki la Sa-bulôn.⚓
²¹Vớt ki Lê-a canỡt muoi lám con mansễm ễn, ramứh Di-na.
²²Chơ Yiang Sursĩ sanhữ loah Rachel, cớp án sâng parnai Rachel câu, chơ án táq yỗn Rachel tỡ bữn cũt noâng. ²³Rachel ỡt mumiaq, cớp canỡt muoi lám con samiang. Án pai neq: “Yiang Sursĩ khoiq táq yỗn cứq tỡ bữn casiet táq noâng.”
²⁴Rachel amứh con samiang ki la Yô-sep,⚓ cớp án pai neq hỡ: “Sễq Yiang Sursĩ yỗn cứq bữn muoi lám con samiang ễn.”

Charán Yacốp Rứh Sa‑ữi Lứq Ễn

²⁵Toâq moâm Rachel canỡt Yô-sep, Yacốp pỡq atỡng Laban neq: “Sanua sễq anhia yỗn hếq píh chu loah pỡ vil viang hếq ỡt tễ nhũang. ²⁶Hếq khoiq táq ranáq yỗn anhia dũn lứq chơ; sanua hếq ễ dững nheq máh con lacuoi hếq chu. Anhia dáng chơ tễ máh ranáq hếq táq yỗn anhia.”
²⁷Ma Laban ta‑ỡi Yacốp neq: “Khân anhia lứq ayooq hếq, ki hếq sễq anhia ỡt cớp hếq voai. Cỗ hếq khoiq mưl chơ, hếq dáng Yiang Sursĩ yỗn hếq bữn ŏ́c bốn cỗ nhơ tễ anhia. ²⁸Sanua anhia tếng maléq práq cóng anhia ễ bữn, chơ hếq yỗn.”
²⁹Yacốp ta‑ỡi án neq: “Anhia dáng chơ hếq khoiq chuai ranáq yỗn anhia, cớp charán anhia rứh sa‑ữi cỗ hếq bán. ³⁰Tễ nhũang, anhia bữn charán bĩq sâng; ma tữ hếq bán charán anhia, cỡt rứh sa‑ữi lứq. Pỡ léq hếq pỡq, ŏ́c bốn tễ Yiang Sursĩ puai hếq pỡ ki. Ma sanua, hếq yoc ễ bữn crơng crớu dŏq chứm siem con lacuoi hếq tê.”
³¹Laban blớh án neq: “Ntrớu o hếq yỗn anhia?”
Yacốp ta‑ỡi: “Anhia tỡ bữn túh yỗn hếq ntrớu. Ma khân anhia pruam muoi ramứh, ki hếq noâng rabán charán anhia. ³²Tangái nâi hếq pỡq nhêng máh tỗp charán. Chơ hếq cayoah máh cữu clor, cữu chĩr, cớp cữu cũm. Cớp hếq cayoah máh mbễq clor, cớp chĩr hỡ. Nheq tữh charán ki cỡt cóng hếq. ³³Parnỡ pra têq anhia pỡq nhêng máh ranáq hếq táq, tanoang chóq anhia ma tỡ bữn. Khân anhia tamóh mbễq tỡ bữn clor cớp chĩr, tỡ la cữu tỡ bữn cũm, ki têq anhia pai máh charán ki cỡt charán hếq tuoiq.”
³⁴Laban ta‑ỡi: “Lứq pĩeiq máh santoiq anhia pai. Pĩeiq anhia táq ngkíq.”
³⁵Ma tangái ki toâp, Laban cayoah nheq máh mbễq tangcáh clor tỡ la chĩr, cớp máh mbễq sang‑ỗng bữn sóc cloc bĩq. Cớp án cayoah máh cữu cũm hỡ. Chơ án cơiq máh charán ki pỡ máh con samiang án. ³⁶Chơ Laban loŏh tễ Yacốp, cớp án pỡq yơng pái tangái. Ma Yacốp noâng ỡt bán charán pún Laban.
³⁷Ntun ki Yacốp ĩt pái thữ aluang, ntreh ca bữn ndŏh cũm, ma tâng clống ki cloc. Chơ án loât pachĩr ndŏh cũm yỗn cỡt cloc. ³⁸Chơ Yacốp dŏq aluang ki choâng moat máh charán pỡ ntốq án nguaiq dỡq tâng tapuang. Tữ charán ki ramoâng, án hữm aluang ki; ³⁹toâq án roah con, con ki cỡt clor cớp chĩr. Ma con cữu cớt, Yacốp cayoah yỗn ỡt ntốq miar, yỗn án nhêng chu tỗp charán Laban ca clor cớp cũm. ⁴⁰Yacốp cayoah tỗp cữu sang‑ỗng tễ tỗp charán khong Laban. Toâq charán ramoâng, án yỗn ỡt cheq-racheq charán chĩr cớp cũm ca noâng tâng tỗp charán khong Laban dŏq yỗn roah con cỡt chĩr cớp cũm. Táq ngkíq án ễq yỗn charán khong án cỡt rứh sa‑ữi; chơ án dŏq miar tễ charán khong Laban. ⁴¹Toâq charán plứm o ramoâng, Yacốp yỗn nhêng chu aluang án pachĩr, chơ charán ki roah con chĩr tũoiq loah aluang ki. ⁴²Ma charán ieuq, Yacốp tỡ bữn chóq aluang ki. Yuaq ngkíq, charán ieuq cỡt khong Laban; ma charán rêng cỡt khong án. ⁴³Chơ Yacốp cỡt sốc lứq; án bữn charán sa‑ữi lứq. Án bữn sa‑ữi náq táq ranáq yỗn án, dếh mansễm dếh samiang, cớp án bữn charán lac‑da cớp aséh dễn la sa‑ữi lứq tê.