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30 Рахиля видела, что она не рожает Якубу детей, и позавидовала своей сестре Лии. Она сказала Якубу:

– Дай мне детей, или я умру!

Якуб разгневался на неё и сказал:

– Разве я Всевышний, Который не даёт тебе детей?

Она сказала:

– Вот Билха, моя служанка. Ляг с ней, чтобы она родила мне на колени[a], и у меня будут дети через неё[b].

Так она дала ему в жёны свою служанку Билху; Якуб лёг с ней, она забеременела и родила ему сына. Тогда Рахиля сказала: «Всевышний оправдал меня; Он внял моей мольбе и дал мне сына». Поэтому она назвала его Дон («он оправдал»). Билха, служанка Рахили, снова забеременела и родила Якубу второго сына. Тогда Рахиля сказала: «Великой борьбой боролась я с моей сестрой и победила». И она назвала его Неффалим («моя борьба»).

Увидев, что она перестала рожать детей, Лия взяла свою служанку Зелфу и дала её Якубу в жёны. 10 Зелфа, служанка Лии, родила Якубу сына. 11 Тогда Лия сказала: «Какая удача!» И она назвала его Гад («удача»). 12 Зелфа, служанка Лии, родила Якубу второго сына. 13 Тогда Лия сказала: «Как я счастлива! Женщины будут звать меня счастливицей!» И она назвала его Ошер («счастье»).

14 Во время жатвы пшеницы, Рувим вышел в поле, нашёл мандрагоры[c] и принёс их матери. Рахиля сказала Лии:

– Пожалуйста, дай мне несколько мандрагор твоего сына.

15 Но та сказала ей:

– Ты уже забрала у меня мужа, а теперь хочешь забрать и мандрагоры сына моего?

– Хорошо, – сказала Рахиля, – пусть он ляжет с тобой сегодня ночью в обмен на мандрагоры твоего сына.

16 Когда вечером Якуб пришёл с полей, Лия вышла встретить его и сказала:

– Ты должен лечь со мной. Я заплатила за тебя мандрагорами сына.

И он лёг с ней в ту ночь. 17 Всевышний услышал Лию, она забеременела и родила Якубу пятого сына. 18 Тогда Лия сказала: «Всевышний вознаградил меня за то, что я дала мужу мою служанку». И она назвала его Иссокор («вознаграждение»). 19 Лия снова забеременела и родила Якубу шестого сына. 20 Тогда она сказала: «Всевышний подарил мне драгоценный подарок. Теперь муж станет чтить меня, потому что я родила ему шестерых сыновей». И она назвала его Завулон («честь»). 21 Через какое-то время она родила дочь и назвала её Дина.

22 Тогда Всевышний вспомнил Рахилю. Он услышал её и открыл ей утробу: 23 она забеременела и родила сына, и сказала: «Всевышний снял мой позор». 24 Она назвала его Юсуф («пусть прибавит»), потому что она сказала: «Да добавит мне Вечный ещё одного сына».

Обогащение Якуба

25 После того как Рахиля родила Юсуфа, Якуб сказал Лобону:

– Отпусти меня, чтобы я мог вернуться в родные края. 26 Дай мне моих жён и детей, за которых я служил тебе, и я тронусь в путь. Ты знаешь, как много я работал на тебя.

27 Но Лобон сказал ему:

– Если я нашёл милость в твоих глазах, прошу тебя, останься: я узнал через гадание[d], что Вечный благословляет меня благодаря тебе, – 28 и добавил: – Назови свою цену, я заплачу её.

29 Якуб ответил ему:

– Ты знаешь, как я работал на тебя и каковы твои стада благодаря моей заботе. 30 Они были немногочисленны до моего прихода, но теперь их число многократно увеличилось, и Вечный благословлял тебя из-за меня. Когда же, наконец, я смогу скопить что-нибудь и для собственного дома?

31 Лобон спросил:

– Что тебе дать?

– Мне ничего не надо, – ответил Якуб. – Сделай для меня лишь одно, и я буду и дальше пасти и охранять твой скот: 32 давай я обойду все твои стада – выбери из них всех крапчатых и пятнистых овец, всех тёмных ягнят и всех пятнистых и крапчатых козлов. Они и будут моей платой. 33 Честность моя будет мне порукой в будущем, когда бы ты ни решил проверить плату, отданную мне. Если найдётся у меня не крапчатый и не пятнистый козёл или не тёмный ягнёнок, то они будут считаться крадеными.

34 – Договорились, – сказал Лобон. – Пусть будет так, как ты сказал.

35 И в тот же день он отделил всех козлов с крапинами или пятнами, всех пятнистых и крапчатых коз – тех, на которых было белое, – и всех тёмных ягнят, и отдал их под надзор сыновей. 36 Он назначил расстояние между собой и Якубом в три дня пути, а Якуб продолжал пасти остальной мелкий скот Лобона.

37 Якуб нарезал свежих веток тополя, миндаля и чинары и сделал на них белые полоски, сняв кору и обнажив белое дерево внутри. 38 Он положил ветки с нарезкой во все поилки, чтобы они были прямо перед скотом, когда скот приходил пить. Во время брачной поры, когда животные приходили пить, 39 они спаривались перед ветками, и потомство рождалось пёстрым, крапчатым или пятнистым. 40 Якуб ставил этот молодняк отдельно, а остальных поворачивал к пёстрым и тёмным животным, которые принадлежали Лобону. Так у него появились собственные стада, и он держал их отдельно от скота Лобона. 41 Когда пить приходили крепкие животные, Якуб клал перед ними в корыта ветки, чтобы они спаривались перед ветками, 42 а если животные были слабые, он не клал веток. Так слабый скот доставался Лобону, а сильный – Якубу. 43 Якуб начал богатеть, у него теперь были большие стада, а также служанки, слуги, верблюды и ослы.

Footnotes

  1. Нач 30:3 По-видимому, здесь говорится об обряде усыновления, после которого ребёнок должен был быть признан сыном Рахили.
  2. Нач 30:3 По древнему ближневосточному обычаю бесплодная жена могла дать свою служанку мужу, чтобы усыновить родившихся от этого детей.
  3. Нач 30:14 Мандрагора – растение из семейства паслёновых, плоды которого также называли яблоками любви. Считалось, что мандрагоровые яблоки вызывают чувственное влечение и способствуют деторождению.
  4. Нач 30:27 Гадание – ненавистно для Всевышнего и запрещено законами Таврота (см. Лев. 19:26; Втор. 18:10-12).

Jacob’s Children

30 Now when Rachel saw that (A)she bore Jacob no children, Rachel (B)envied her sister, and said to Jacob, “Give me children, (C)or else I die!”

And Jacob’s anger was aroused against Rachel, and he said, (D)Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

So she said, “Here is (E)my maid Bilhah; go in to her, (F)and she will bear a child on my knees, (G)that I also may [a]have children by her.” Then she gave him Bilhah her maid (H)as wife, and Jacob went in to her. And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son. Then Rachel said, “God has (I)judged my case; and He has also heard my voice and given me a son.” Therefore she called his name [b]Dan. And Rachel’s maid Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son. Then Rachel said, “With [c]great wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and indeed I have prevailed.” So she called his name [d]Naphtali.

When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, she took Zilpah her maid and (J)gave her to Jacob as wife. 10 And Leah’s maid Zilpah bore Jacob a son. 11 Then Leah said, [e]“A troop comes!” So she called his name [f]Gad. 12 And Leah’s maid Zilpah bore Jacob a second son. 13 Then Leah said, “I am happy, for the daughters (K)will call me blessed.” So she called his name [g]Asher.

14 Now Reuben 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, (L)“Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

15 But she said to her, (M)Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes also?”

And Rachel said, “Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son’s mandrakes.”

16 When Jacob came out of the field in the evening, 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.” And he lay with her that night.

17 And God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son. 18 Leah said, “God has given me my wages, because I have given my maid to my husband.” So she called his name [h]Issachar. 19 Then Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a sixth son. 20 And Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good endowment; now my husband will dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons.” So she called his name [i]Zebulun. 21 Afterward she bore a (N)daughter, and called her name [j]Dinah.

22 Then God (O)remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and (P)opened her womb. 23 And she conceived and bore a son, and said, “God has taken away (Q)my reproach.” 24 So she called his name [k]Joseph, and said, (R)“The Lord shall add to me another son.”

Jacob’s Agreement with Laban

25 And it came to pass, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, (S)“Send me away, that I may go to (T)my own place and to my country. 26 Give me my wives and my children (U)for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service which I have done for you.”

27 And Laban said to him, “Please stay, if I have found favor in your eyes, for (V)I have learned by experience that the Lord has blessed me for your sake.” 28 Then he said, (W)“Name me your wages, and I will give it.

29 So Jacob said to him, (X)“You know how I have served you and how your livestock has been with me. 30 For what you had before I came was little, and it has increased to a great amount; the Lord has blessed you [l]since my coming. And now, when shall I also (Y)provide for my own house?”

31 So he said, “What shall I give you?”

And Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep your flocks: 32 Let me pass through all your flock today, removing from there all the speckled and spotted sheep, and all the brown ones among the lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and (Z)these shall be my wages. 33 So my (AA)righteousness will answer for me in time to come, when the subject of my wages comes before you: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the lambs, will be considered stolen, if it is with me.”

34 And Laban said, “Oh, that it were according to your word!” 35 So he removed that day the male goats that were (AB)speckled and spotted, all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had some white in it, and all the brown ones among the lambs, and gave them into the hand of his sons. 36 Then he put three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.

37 Now (AC)Jacob took for himself rods of green poplar and of the almond and chestnut trees, peeled white strips in them, and exposed the white which was in the rods. 38 And the rods which he had peeled, he set before the flocks in the gutters, in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink, so that they should conceive when they came to drink. 39 So the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted. 40 Then Jacob separated the lambs, and made the flocks face toward the streaked and all the brown in the flock of Laban; but he put his own flocks by themselves and did not put them with Laban’s flock.

41 And it came to pass, whenever the stronger livestock conceived, that Jacob placed the rods before the eyes of the livestock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods. 42 But when the flocks were feeble, he did not put them in; so the feebler were Laban’s and the stronger Jacob’s. 43 Thus the man (AD)became exceedingly prosperous, and (AE)had large flocks, female and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

Footnotes

  1. Genesis 30:3 Lit. be built up by her
  2. Genesis 30:6 Lit. Judge
  3. Genesis 30:8 Lit. wrestlings of God
  4. Genesis 30:8 Lit. My Wrestling
  5. Genesis 30:11 So with Qr., Syr., Tg.; Kt., LXX, Vg. in fortune
  6. Genesis 30:11 Lit. Troop or Fortune
  7. Genesis 30:13 Lit. Happy
  8. Genesis 30:18 Lit. Wages
  9. Genesis 30:20 Lit. Dwelling
  10. Genesis 30:21 Lit. Judgment
  11. Genesis 30:24 Lit. He Will Add
  12. Genesis 30:30 Lit. at my foot

30 And Rachel, seeing herself without children, envied her sister, and said to her husband: Give me children, otherwise I shall die.

And Jacob being angry with her, answered: Am I as God, who hath deprived thee of the fruit of thy womb?

But she said: I have here my servant Bala: go in unto her, that she may bear upon my knees, and I may have children by her.

And she gave him Bala in marriage: who,

When her husband had gone in unto her, conceived and bore a son.

And Rachel said: The Lord hath judged for me, and hath heard my voice, giving me a son, and therefore she called his name Dan.

And again Bala conceived and bore another,

For whom Rachel said: God hath compared me with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called him Nephtali.

Lia, perceiving that she had left off bearing, gave Zelpha her handmaid to her husband.

10 And when she had conceived and brought forth a son,

11 She said: Happily. And therefore called his name Gad.

12 Zelpha also bore another.

13 And Lia said: This is for my happiness: for women will call me blessed. Therefore she called him Aser.

14 And Ruben, going out in the time of the wheat harvest into the field, found mandrakes: which he brought to his mother Lia. And Rachel said: Give me part of thy son's mandrakes.

15 She answered: Dost thou think it a small matter, that thou hast taken my husband from me, unless thou take also my son's mandrakes? Rachel said: He shall sleep with thee this night, for thy son's mandrakes.

16 And when Jacob returned at even from the field, Lia went out to meet him, and said: Thou shalt come in unto me, because I have hired thee for my son's mandrakes. And he slept with her that night.

17 And God heard her prayers: and she conceived and bore the fifth son,

18 And said: God hath given me a reward, because I gave my handmaid to my husband. And she called his name Issachar.

19 And Lia conceived again, and bore the sixth son,

20 And said: God hath endowed me with a good dowry: this turn also my husband will be with me, because I have borne him six sons: and therefore she called his name Zabulon.

21 After whom she bore a daughter, named Dina.

22 The Lord also remembering Rachel, heard her, and opened her womb.

23 And she conceived, and bore a son, saying: God hath taken away my reproach.

24 And she called his name Joseph, saying: The Lord give me also another son.

25 And when Joseph was born, Jacob said to his father in law: Send me away that I may return into my country, and to my land.

26 Give me my wives, and my children, for whom I have served thee, that I may depart: thou knowest the service that I have rendered thee.

27 Laban said to him: Let me find favour in thy sight: I have learned by experience, that God hath blessed me for thy sake.

28 Appoint thy wages which I shall give thee.

29 But he answered: Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how great thy possession hath been in my hands.

30 Thou hadst but little before I came to thee, and now thou art become rich: and the Lord hath blessed thee at my coming. It is reasonable therefore that I should now provide also for my own house.

31 And Laban said: What shall I give thee? But he said: I require nothing: but if thou wilt do what I demand, I will feed, and keep thy sheep again.

32 Go round through all thy flocks, and separate all the sheep of divers colours, and speckled: and all that is brown and spotted, and of divers colours, as well among the sheep, as among the goats, shall be my wages.

33 And my justice shall answer for me to morrow before thee when the time of the bargain shall come: and all that is not of divers colours, and spotted, and brown, as well among the sheep as among the goats, shall accuse me of theft.

34 And Laban said: I like well what thou demandest.

35 And he separated the same day the she goats, and the sheep, and the he goats, and the rams of divers colours, and spotted: and all the flock of one colour, that is, of white and black fleece, he delivered into the hands of his sons.

36 And he set the space of three days' journey betwixt himself and his son in law, who fed the rest of his flock.

37 And Jacob took green rods of poplar, and of almond, and of plane trees, and pilled them in part: so when the bark was taken off, in the parts that were pilled, there appeared whiteness: but the parts that were whole remained green: and by this means the colour was divers.

38 And he put them in the troughs, where the water was poured out: that when the flocks should come to drink, they might have the rods before their eyes, and in the sight of them might conceive.

39 And it came to pass that in the very heat of coition, the sheep beheld the rods, and brought forth spotted, and of divers colours, and speckled.

40 And Jacob separated the flock, and put the rods in the troughs before the eyes of the rams: and all the white and the black were Laban's: and the rest were Jacob's, when the flocks were separated one from the other.

41 So when the ewes went first to ram, Jacob put the rods in the troughs of water before the eyes of the rams, and of the ewes, that they might conceive while they were looking upon them:

42 But when the latter coming was, and the last conceiving, he did not put them. And those that were lateward, became Laban's: and they of the first time, Jacob's.

43 And the man was enriched exceedingly, and he had many flocks, maid servants and men servants, camels and asses.

30 When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children,(A) she became jealous of her sister.(B) So she said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I’ll die!”

Jacob became angry with her and said, “Am I in the place of God,(C) who has kept you from having children?”(D)

Then she said, “Here is Bilhah,(E) my servant.(F) Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and I too can build a family through her.”(G)

So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife.(H) Jacob slept with her,(I) and she became pregnant and bore him a son. Then Rachel said, “God has vindicated me;(J) he has listened to my plea and given me a son.”(K) Because of this she named him Dan.[a](L)

Rachel’s servant Bilhah(M) conceived again and bore Jacob a second son. Then Rachel said, “I have had a great struggle with my sister, and I have won.”(N) So she named him Naphtali.[b](O)

When Leah(P) saw that she had stopped having children,(Q) she took her servant Zilpah(R) and gave her to Jacob as a wife.(S) 10 Leah’s servant Zilpah(T) bore Jacob a son. 11 Then Leah said, “What good fortune!”[c] So she named him Gad.[d](U)

12 Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son. 13 Then Leah said, “How happy I am! The women will call me(V) happy.”(W) So she named him Asher.[e](X)

14 During wheat harvest,(Y) Reuben went out into the fields and found some mandrake plants,(Z) which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

15 But she said to her, “Wasn’t it enough(AA) 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.”(AB)

16 So 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.”(AC) So he slept with her that night.

17 God listened to Leah,(AD) and she became pregnant and bore Jacob a fifth son. 18 Then Leah said, “God has rewarded me for giving my servant to my husband.”(AE) So she named him Issachar.[f](AF)

19 Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a sixth son. 20 Then Leah said, “God has presented me with a precious gift. This time my husband will treat me with honor,(AG) because I have borne him six sons.” So she named him Zebulun.[g](AH)

21 Some time later she gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah.(AI)

22 Then God remembered Rachel;(AJ) he listened to her(AK) and enabled her to conceive.(AL) 23 She became pregnant and gave birth to a son(AM) and said, “God has taken away my disgrace.”(AN) 24 She named him Joseph,[h](AO) and said, “May the Lord add to me another son.”(AP)

Jacob’s Flocks Increase

25 After Rachel gave birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way(AQ) so I can go back to my own homeland.(AR) 26 Give me my wives and children, for whom I have served you,(AS) and I will be on my way. You know how much work I’ve done for you.”

27 But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes,(AT) please stay. I have learned by divination(AU) that the Lord has blessed me because of you.”(AV) 28 He added, “Name your wages,(AW) and I will pay them.”

29 Jacob said to him, “You know how I have worked for you(AX) and how your livestock has fared under my care.(AY) 30 The little you had before I came has increased greatly, and the Lord has blessed you wherever I have been.(AZ) But now, when may I do something for my own household?(BA)

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: 32 Let 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.(BB) They will be my wages.(BC) 33 And 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,(BD) will be considered stolen.(BE)

34 “Agreed,” said Laban. “Let it be as you have said.” 35 That 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,(BF) and he placed them in the care of his sons.(BG) 36 Then he put a three-day journey(BH) between himself and Jacob, while Jacob continued to tend the rest of Laban’s flocks.

37 Jacob, however, took fresh-cut branches from poplar, almond(BI) and plane trees(BJ) and made white stripes on them by peeling the bark and exposing the white inner wood of the branches.(BK) 38 Then he placed the peeled branches(BL) in all the watering troughs,(BM) so that they would be directly in front of the flocks when they came to drink. When the flocks were in heat(BN) and came to drink, 39 they mated in front of the branches.(BO) And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.(BP) 40 Jacob set apart the young of the flock by themselves, but made the rest face the streaked and dark-colored animals(BQ) that belonged to Laban. Thus he made separate flocks for himself and did not put them with Laban’s animals. 41 Whenever the stronger females were in heat,(BR) Jacob would place the branches in the troughs in front of the animals so they would mate near the branches,(BS) 42 but if the animals were weak, he would not place them there. So the weak animals went to Laban and the strong ones to Jacob.(BT) 43 In this way the man grew exceedingly prosperous and came to own large flocks, and female and male servants, and camels and donkeys.(BU)

Footnotes

  1. Genesis 30:6 Dan here means he has vindicated.
  2. Genesis 30:8 Naphtali means my struggle.
  3. Genesis 30:11 Or “A troop is coming!”
  4. Genesis 30:11 Gad can mean good fortune or a troop.
  5. Genesis 30:13 Asher means happy.
  6. Genesis 30:18 Issachar sounds like the Hebrew for reward.
  7. Genesis 30:20 Zebulun probably means honor.
  8. Genesis 30:24 Joseph means may he add.