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Yacốp Ĩt Con Cũq Án

¹Yacốp pỡq toâq pỡ cruang cũq án coah angia mandang loŏh. ²Bo án toâq pỡ ki, án hữm muoi lám dỡq chữong ỡt tâng ruang, cớp bữn pái tỗp cữu ỡt cheq dỡq chữong ki. Máh charán ki dốq nguaiq dỡq tễ chữong nâi. Ma bữn tamáu côl catáng chíq tâng pỡng ngoah chữong. ³Toâq máh tỗp cữu rôm dũ nheq ntốq ki, cũai mantán coŏh cốc tamáu aloŏh tễ ngoah dỡq chữong dŏq yỗn cữu nguaiq. Moâm cữu nguaiq, alới catáng loah tamáu ngoah chữong.
⁴Yacốp blớh cũai mantán cữu ki neq: “Sễm ai ơi! Anhia toâq tễ léq?”
Alới ta‑ỡi: “Hếq toâq tễ Haran.”
⁵Yacốp blớh alới ễn: “Anhia dáng tỡ bữn cũai ramứh Laban, châu Nahor?”
Alới ta‑ỡi: “Hếq dáng án.”
⁶Chơ Yacốp blớh ễn: “Án bán sũan tỡ?”
Alới ta‑ỡi: “Ơq! Án bán sũan ien khễ. Anhia nhêng chu tíh. Rachel con mansễm Laban cớp cữu án toâq pỡ ki.”
⁷Yacốp pai neq: “Sanua nâi, paloŏng noâng poang, tỡ yũah toâq ngư pong charán chu dống. Nŏ́q anhia tỡ bữn ŏh dỡq yỗn cữu anhia nguaiq voai. Moâm ki anhia cuvêq chu ntốq chuaq cha.”
⁸Tỗp cũai ki ta‑ỡi Yacốp neq: “Hếq tỡ têq táq ngkíq. Cóq coan máh tỗp cữu parỗm dũ nheq voai. Moâm ki, hếq têq coŏh tamáu aloŏh tễ ngoah chữong, chơ ŏh dỡq yỗn cữu nguaiq.”
⁹Bo Yacốp noâng táq ntỡng cớp cũai mantán ki, Rachel toâq cớp tỗp cữu mpoaq án, yuaq án la cũai bán kĩaq cữu ki. ¹⁰Tữ Yacốp hữm Rachel con mansễm Laban cũq án, cớp cữu Laban, ngkíq án coŏh tamáu tễ ngoah dỡq chữong, cớp án yỗn cữu cũq án nguaiq. ¹¹Chơ Yacốp hũn Rachel cớp án nhiam, cỗ án sâng ỡn lứq. ¹²Yacốp atỡng Rachel neq: “Cứq la sễm ai mpoaq mới; mpiq cứq la Rê-be-ca.”
Toâq Yacốp pai ngkíq, Rachel lúh chu atỡng mpoaq án. ¹³Tữ Laban sâng con án atỡng tễ Yacốp, la con amuaq án, ngkíq án lúh pỡq ramóh Yacốp. Laban kĩau Yacốp, cớp hũn hĩt. Chơ án dững Yacốp chu pỡ dống án. Ỡt ntốq ki Yacốp atỡng Laban nheq máh ramứh tễ dống sũ án. ¹⁴Cớp Laban atỡng Yacốp neq: “Lứq samoât, mới la sễm ai cứq.”
Ngkíq, Yacốp ỡt cớp Laban nheq muoi casâi. ¹⁵Moâm ki, Laban atỡng Yacốp neq: “Mới la sễm ai cứq lứq, ma tỡ pĩeiq mới táq miat sâng ranáq yỗn cứq. Sanua mới atỡng cứq, maléq mới yoc ễ bữn práq cóng tễ ranáq mới táq.”
¹⁶Laban bữn bar lám con mansễm. Lê-a la ỡi; Rachel la a‑ễm. ¹⁷Lê-a bữn moat ieuq.⚓ Ma Rachel la cũai nêuq cớp bữn thán riang o. ¹⁸Ngkíq Yacốp ayooq Rachel cớp án atỡng Laban neq: “Cứq táq ranáq yỗn mới nheq tapul cumo, khân mới yỗn cứq ĩt Rachel con ralŏ́h mới.”
¹⁹Laban ta‑ỡi neq: “Ŏ́c ki o; khaq cứq yỗn mới ĩt táq lacuoi, saláng yỗn án ỡt cớp samiang canŏ́h. O lứq mới ỡt cớp cứq.”
²⁰Yuaq ngkíq, Yacốp táq ranáq yỗn Laban nheq tapul cumo, cỗ án ễ bữn niang Rachel táq lacuoi. Tapul cumo vớt chái lứq, ariang pai bar pái tangái sâng yỗn Yacốp, cỗ án ayooq lứq Rachel.
²¹Vớt tapul cumo, Yacốp atỡng Laban neq: “Panát par‑ữq hái pruam khoiq nheq chơ, sanua sễq cũq yỗn cứq bữn lacuoi, dŏq cứq têq ỡt cớp án.”
²²Ngkíq Laban thrũan rabễng yỗn con án. Án mơi nheq tữh cũai tâng vil, yỗn toâq rôm nguaiq cha bũi. ²³Ma toâq sadâu, Laban dững Lê-a con mansễm án atoâq pỡ Yacốp, chơ Yacốp bếq cớp Lê-a. ²⁴Cớp Laban yỗn amŏq Sil-pa dŏq táq ranáq yỗn Lê-a.
²⁵Toâq poang tarưp Yacốp hữm niang Lê-a, tỡ cỡn niang Rachel. Ngkíq Yacốp atỡng Laban neq: “Nŏ́q anhia táq chóq hếq nneq? Hếq táq ranáq yỗn anhia nheq tapul cumo, cỗ hếq ễ bữn Rachel táq lacuoi? Nŏ́q anhia phếq hếq?”
²⁶Laban ta‑ỡi neq: “Rit tâng cruang hếq, a‑ễm tỡ têq ĩt cayac nhũang ỡi. Sanua cóq anhia ỡt acoan tapul tangái voai, ki nŏ́q hếq chiau Rachel yỗn anhia tê, ²⁷khân anhia táq ranáq yỗn hếq tapul cumo ễn.”
²⁸Yacốp táq ariang Laban pai. Án táq moâm tapul tangái puai phễp rit rabễng cớp Lê-a. Moâm ki, Laban yỗn Rachel ễn. ²⁹Laban yỗn amŏq Bil-ha hỡ dŏq táq ranáq yỗn Rachel. ³⁰Ngkíq Yacốp bếq cớp Rachel, cớp án ayooq Rachel hỡn tễ Lê-a. Chơ án táq ranáq yỗn Laban nheq tapul cumo ễn.

Lacuoi Yacốp Sễt Con

³¹Yiang Sursĩ hữm Yacốp ayooq Lê-a bĩq sâng. Ngkíq, án yỗn Lê-a bữn con. Ma Rachel cỡt cũai cũt. ³²Lê-a ỡt mumiaq, chơ án canỡt muoi lám con samiang; án amứh Ruben,⚓ yuaq án pai neq: “Yiang Sursĩ dáng cayac cứq tỡ bữn ayooq cứq. Sanua cayac cứq lứq ayooq cứq tê.”
³³Vớt ki Lê-a ỡt mumiaq sĩa, cớp án canỡt con samiang ễn. Chơ án pai neq: “Yiang Sursĩ bữn sâng pai noau kêt cứq. Ngkíq, án yỗn cứq bữn con samiang ễn.” Lê-a amứh con ki la Si-mê-ôn.⚓
³⁴Dũn tễ ki Lê-a ỡt mumiaq ễn. Án canỡt con samiang sĩa, cớp án pai neq: “Sanua cayac cứq cỡt muoi mứt cớp cứq, yuaq cứq khoiq canỡt pái lám con samiang yỗn án chơ.”
Ngkíq, án amứh con samiang ki la Lê-vi.⚓
³⁵Chơ dũn tễ ki, Lê-a ỡt mumiaq sĩa. Án canỡt con samiang ễn. Cớp án pai neq: “Trỗ nâi cứq ễ khễn Yiang Sursĩ.”
Ngkíq, án amứh con ki la Yuda.⚓ Chơ tễ ki án tangứt táq ramia voai.

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Jacob Arrives in Paddan Aram

¹Then Jacob continued on his journey and came to the land of the eastern peoples. ²There he saw a well in the open country, with three flocks of sheep lying near it because the flocks were watered from that well. The stone over the mouth of the well was large. ³When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone away from the well’s mouth and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.
⁴Jacob asked the shepherds, “My brothers, where are you from?”
“We’re from Harran,” they replied.
⁵He said to them, “Do you know Laban, Nahor’s grandson?”
“Yes, we know him,” they answered.
⁶Then Jacob asked them, “Is he well?”
“Yes, he is,” they said, “and here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep.”
⁷“Look,” he said, “the sun is still high; it is not time for the flocks to be gathered. Water the sheep and take them back to pasture.”
⁸“We can’t,” they replied, “until all the flocks are gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.”
⁹While he was still talking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherd. ¹⁰When Jacob saw Rachel daughter of his uncle Laban, and Laban’s sheep, he went over and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep. ¹¹Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep aloud. ¹²He had told Rachel that he was a relative of her father and a son of Rebekah. So she ran and told her father.
¹³As soon as Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister’s son, he hurried to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, and there Jacob told him all these things. ¹⁴Then Laban said to him, “You are my own flesh and blood.”

Jacob Marries Leah and Rachel

After Jacob had stayed with him for a whole month, ¹⁵Laban said to him, “Just because you are a relative of mine, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”
¹⁶Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. ¹⁷Leah had weak⚓ eyes, but Rachel had a lovely figure and was beautiful. ¹⁸Jacob was in love with Rachel and said, “I’ll work for you seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel.”
¹⁹Laban said, “It’s better that I give her to you than to some other man. Stay here with me.” ²⁰So Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.
²¹Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife. My time is completed, and I want to make love to her.”
²²So Laban brought together all the people of the place and gave a feast. ²³But when evening came, he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and Jacob made love to her. ²⁴And Laban gave his servant Zilpah to his daughter as her attendant.
²⁵When morning came, there was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? I served you for Rachel, didn’t I? Why have you deceived me?”
²⁶Laban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older one. ²⁷Finish this daughter’s bridal week; then we will give you the younger one also, in return for another seven years of work.”
²⁸And Jacob did so. He finished the week with Leah, and then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife. ²⁹Laban gave his servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her attendant. ³⁰Jacob made love to Rachel also, and his love for Rachel was greater than his love for Leah. And he worked for Laban another seven years.

Jacob’s Children

³¹When the Lord saw that Leah was not loved, he enabled her to conceive, but Rachel remained childless. ³²Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben,⚓ for she said, “It is because the Lord has seen my misery. Surely my husband will love me now.”
³³She conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son she said, “Because the Lord heard that I am not loved, he gave me this one too.” So she named him Simeon.⚓
³⁴Again she conceived, and when she gave birth to a son she said, “Now at last my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” So he was named Levi.⚓
³⁵She conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son she said, “This time I will praise the Lord.” So she named him Judah.⚓ Then she stopped having children.