¹When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”

¹Ko je pa videla Rahela, da ona ne rodi Jakobu, je zavidala sestri svoji, in reče Jakobu: Daj mi otrók, če ne, umrem.

²Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

²In Jakob se raztogoti proti Raheli in reče: Ali sem jaz namesto Boga, ki ti je odrekel sad telesa?

³She said, “Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her.”

³Ona pa reče: Glej, deklo mojo Bilho, pojdi k njej, da porodi na kolenih mojih, in dobim tudi jaz otrók iz nje.

⁴She gave him Bilhah her handmaid as wife, and Jacob went in to her.

⁴In dá mu Bilho, deklo svojo, za ženo; in združi se ž njo Jakob.

⁵Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.

⁵Tako spočne Bilha in porodi Jakobu sina.

⁶Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son.” Therefore called she his name Dan.

⁶Tedaj reče Rahela: Bog mi je storil pravico in tudi uslišal glas moj ter mi dal sina, in ga je imenovala Dana.

⁷Bilhah, Rachel’s handmaid, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.

⁷Nato spočne Bilha, Rahelina dekla, vdrugič in porodi sina drugega Jakobu.

⁸Rachel said, “With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed.” She named him Naphtali.

⁸In Rahela reče: V bojih Božjih sem se borila s sestro svojo in zmogla sem, zato ga je imenovala Neftalija.

⁹When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

⁹Ko je pa videla Leja, da je nehala roditi, vzame Zilpo, deklo svojo, in jo da Jakobu za ženo.

¹⁰Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid, bore Jacob a son.

¹⁰In Zilpa, Lejina dekla, porodi Jakobu sina.

¹¹Leah said, “How fortunate!” She named him Gad.

¹¹In Leja reče: Na srečo! in imenovala ga je Gada.

¹²Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid, bore Jacob a second son.

¹²In Zilpa, Lejina dekla, porodi Jakobu drugega sina.

¹³Leah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy.” She named him Asher.

¹³In Leja reče: Blagor meni! kajti blagrovale me bodo žene, zato ga je imenovala Aserja.

¹⁴Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

¹⁴In šel je Ruben ob času pšenične žetve in našel ljubezenska jabolčka na polju in jih prinesel Leji, materi svoji; in reče Rahela Leji: Daj mi, prosim, od ljubezenskih jabolčk svojega sina.

¹⁵She said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes, also?” Rachel said, “Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son’s mandrakes.”

¹⁵Ona pa ji reče: Ali se ti zdi premalo, da si vzela moža mojega, hočeš li tudi vzeti ljubezenskih jabolčk sina mojega? Njej pa reče Rahela: Zato naj on s teboj leži nocoj za ljubezenska jabolčka sina tvojega.

¹⁶Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, “You must come in to me; for I have surely hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” He lay with her that night.

¹⁶In ko se je Jakob zvečer vračal s polja, mu pride Leja naproti ter reče: K meni prideš, zakaj prav za plačilo sem te najela za ljubezenska jabolčka svojega sina. In ležal je ž njo tisto noč.

¹⁷God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.

¹⁷Bog pa je uslišal Lejo: spočne namreč ter porodi Jakobu sina petega.

¹⁸Leah said, “God has given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband.” She named him Issachar.

¹⁸In Leja reče: Bog mi je povrnil plačilo moje, zato ker sem dala deklo svojo možu svojemu, in ga je imenoval Isaharja.

¹⁹Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.

¹⁹In zopet spočne Leja in porodi sina šestega Jakobu.

²⁰Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons.” She named him Zebulun.

²⁰In reče Leja: Oblagodaril me je Bog z blagodarom dobrim; zdaj vendar bo prebival moj mož z menoj, ker sem mu porodila šest sinov; zato ga je imenovala Zebulona.

²¹Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.

²¹pozneje pa porodi hčer, in imenovala jo je Dino.

²²God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

²²Spomni se pa Bog Rahele, usliši jo Bog ter ji odpre maternico.

²³She conceived, bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”

²³In spočne in rodi sina ter reče: Odvzel je Bog sramoto mojo.

²⁴She named him Joseph, Joseph means “may he add.” saying, “May Yahweh add another son to me.”

²⁴In imenovala ga je Jožefa, rekoč: Pridaj mi GOSPOD še drugega sina!

²⁵It happened, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.

²⁵Zgodi se pa, ko je rodila Rahela Jožefa, da reče Jakob Labanu: Odpústi me, da odidem v svoj kraj in v deželo svojo.

²⁶Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you.”

²⁶Daj mi ženi moji in otroke moje, za katere sem ti služil, da odidem; ti namreč znaš službo mojo, s katero sem ti služil.

²⁷Laban said to him, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake.”

²⁷Laban pa mu reče: O da bi našel milost v tvojih očeh! zaznal sem, da me je GOSPOD blagoslovil zaradi tebe.

²⁸He said, “Appoint me your wages, and I will give it.”

²⁸Reče torej: Določi mi plačilo svoje, in ti ga dam.

²⁹He said to him, “You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.

²⁹Jakob mu reče: Ti veš, kako sem ti služil in kako se je godilo živini tvoji pri meni.

³⁰For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?”

³⁰Zakaj kar si malega imel pred prihodom mojim, to se je pomnožilo, in GOSPOD ter je blagoslovil, kamorkoli sem krenil. Sedaj pa, kdaj naj skrbim tudi jaz za hišo svojo?

³¹He said, “What shall I give you?” Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.

³¹In veli: Kaj ti dam? In Jakob reče: Ne dajaj mi ničesar; pasel bom zopet čredo tvojo in stražil, če mi storiš to:

³²I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. This will be my hire.

³²danes pregledam vso čredo tvojo in odločim od nje vsako živinče pisano in marogasto, in vse čadasto med ovcami ter marogasto in pisano med kozami; in to bodi plačilo moje.

³³So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that might be with me, will be counted stolen.”

³³In pričala bo pravičnost moja zame v prihodnosti, kadar prideš gledat plačilo moje, ki je pred teboj: karkoli ni pisano in marogasto med kozami ali čadasto med ovcami, bodi tatvina pri meni.

³⁴Laban said, “Behold, let it be according to your word.”

³⁴In Laban reče: Glej, bodi, kakor si rekel.

³⁵That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.

³⁵In še tisti dan je odločil kozle progaste in marogaste in vse koze pisane in marogaste, vse, na katerih je bila bela lisa, potem vse čadasto med ovcami, in jih izroči v roko sinom svojim;

³⁶He set three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.

³⁶in določi tri dni hoda razdalja med seboj in Jakobom; in Jakob je pasel ostalo drobnico Labanovo.

³⁷Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.

³⁷Vzame si pa Jakob zelene palice z bele topole in z mandeljnovca in platanove in izlupi po njih bele proge, da se je kazala belina, ki je bila na palicah.

³⁸He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink.

³⁸In tiste palice, ki jih je bil olupil, je pokladal v žlebove in v korita, ko so prihajale ovce pit, ovcam nasproti, da bi se mrkale, ko pridejo pit.

³⁹The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks produced streaked, speckled, and spotted.

³⁹Tako so se ubrejile ovce pri tistih palicah in so rodile progaste, lisaste in marogaste.

⁴⁰Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and didn’t put them into Laban’s flock.

⁴⁰In ta jagnjeta je odločeval Jakob, in obličja ovac je obračal proti pisanim in proti vsem čadastim v Labanovi čredi; in sebi je napravljal črede posebe, in jih ni mešal med ovce Labanove.

⁴¹It happened, whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods;

⁴¹In kadar so se mrkale ovce krepkega života, je pokladal Jakob palice ovcam pred oči v žlebove, da bi se ubrejile pri tistih palicah;

⁴²but when the flock were feeble, he didn’t put them in. So the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.

⁴²kadar so se pa družile ovce slabotne, jih ni pokladal: tako so bile slabotne Labanove, krepke pa Jakobove.Tako je ta mož silno obogatel, in imel je veliko drobnice in dekel in hlapcev in velblodov in oslov.

⁴³The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

⁴³Tako je ta mož silno obogatel, in imel je veliko drobnice in dekel in hlapcev in velblodov in oslov.