Genesis 30
New English Translation
30 When Rachel saw that she could not give Jacob children, she[a] became jealous of her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children[b] or I’ll die!” 2 Jacob became furious[c] with Rachel and exclaimed, “Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?”[d] 3 She replied, “Here is my servant Bilhah! Sleep with[e] her so that she can bear[f] children[g] for me[h] and I can have a family through her.”[i]
4 So Rachel[j] gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob slept with[k] her. 5 Bilhah became pregnant[l] and gave Jacob a son.[m] 6 Then Rachel said, “God has vindicated me. He has responded to my prayer[n] and given me a son.” That is why[o] she named him Dan.[p]
7 Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, became pregnant again and gave Jacob another son.[q] 8 Then Rachel said, “I have fought a desperate struggle with my sister, but I have won.”[r] So she named him Naphtali.[s]
9 When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave[t] her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife. 10 Soon Leah’s servant Zilpah gave Jacob a son.[u] 11 Leah said, “How fortunate!”[v] So she named him Gad.[w]
12 Then Leah’s servant Zilpah gave Jacob another son.[x] 13 Leah said, “How happy I am,[y] for women[z] will call me happy!” So she named him Asher.[aa]
14 At the time[ab] of the wheat harvest Reuben went out and found some mandrake plants[ac] in a field and brought them to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, “Give me some of your son’s mandrakes.” 15 But Leah replied,[ad] “Wasn’t it enough that you’ve taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes too?” “All right,”[ae] Rachel said, “he may go to bed with[af] you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.” 16 When Jacob came in from the fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must sleep[ag] with me because I have paid for your services[ah] with my son’s mandrakes.” So he went to bed with[ai] her that night. 17 God paid attention[aj] to Leah; she became pregnant[ak] and gave Jacob a son for the fifth time.[al] 18 Then Leah said, “God has granted me a reward[am] because I gave my servant to my husband as a wife.”[an] So she named him Issachar.[ao]
19 Leah became pregnant again and gave Jacob a son for the sixth time.[ap] 20 Then Leah said, “God has given me a good gift. Now my husband will honor me because I have given him six sons.” So she named him Zebulun.[aq]
21 After that she gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah.
22 Then God took note of[ar] Rachel. He paid attention to her and enabled her to become pregnant.[as] 23 She became pregnant[at] and gave birth to a son. Then she said, “God has taken away my shame.”[au] 24 She named him Joseph,[av] saying, “May the Lord give me yet another son.”
The Flocks of Jacob
25 After Rachel had given birth to[aw] Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send[ax] me on my way so that I can go[ay] home to my own country.[az] 26 Let me take my wives and my children whom I have acquired by working for you.[ba] Then I’ll depart,[bb] because you know how hard I’ve worked for you.”[bc]
27 But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your sight, please stay here,[bd] for I have learned by divination[be] that the Lord has blessed me on account of you.” 28 He added, “Just name your wages—I’ll pay whatever you want.”[bf]
29 “You know how I have worked for you,” Jacob replied,[bg] “and how well your livestock have fared under my care.[bh] 30 Indeed,[bi] you had little before I arrived,[bj] but now your possessions have increased many times over.[bk] The Lord has blessed you wherever I worked.[bl] But now, how long must it be before I do something for my own family too?”[bm]
31 So Laban asked,[bn] “What should I give you?” “You don’t need to give me a thing,”[bo] Jacob replied,[bp] “but if you agree to this one condition,[bq] I will continue to care for[br] your flocks and protect them: 32 Let me walk among[bs] all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb,[bt] and the spotted or speckled goats.[bu] These animals will be my wages.[bv] 33 My integrity will testify for me[bw] later on.[bx] When you come to verify that I’ve taken only the wages we agreed on,[by] if I have in my possession any goat that is not speckled or spotted or any sheep that is not dark-colored, it will be considered stolen.”[bz] 34 “Agreed!” said Laban, “It will be as you say.”[ca]
35 So that day Laban[cb] removed the male goats that were streaked or spotted, all the female goats that were speckled or spotted (all that had any white on them), and all the dark-colored lambs, and put them in the care[cc] of his sons. 36 Then he separated them from Jacob by a three-day journey,[cd] while[ce] Jacob was taking care of the rest of Laban’s flocks.
37 But Jacob took fresh-cut branches from poplar, almond, and plane trees. He made white streaks by peeling them, making the white inner wood in the branches visible. 38 Then he set up the peeled branches in all the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. He set up the branches in front of the flocks when they were in heat and came to drink.[cf] 39 When the sheep mated[cg] in front of the branches, they[ch] gave birth to young that were streaked or speckled or spotted. 40 Jacob removed these lambs, but he made the rest of the flock face[ci] the streaked and completely dark-colored animals in Laban’s flock. So he made separate flocks for himself and did not mix them with Laban’s flocks. 41 When the stronger females were in heat,[cj] Jacob would set up the branches in the troughs in front of the flock, so they would mate near the branches. 42 But if the animals were weaker, he did not set the branches there.[ck] So the weaker animals ended up belonging to Laban[cl] and the stronger animals to Jacob. 43 In this way Jacob[cm] became extremely prosperous. He owned[cn] large flocks, male and female servants, camels, and donkeys.
Footnotes
- Genesis 30:1 tn Heb “Rachel.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“she”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
- Genesis 30:1 tn Heb “sons.”
- Genesis 30:2 tn Heb “and the anger of Jacob was hot.”
- Genesis 30:2 tn Heb “who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb.”
- Genesis 30:3 tn The Hebrew collocation of the verb בּוֹא (boʾ) and the preposition אֶל (ʾel) means “come to” or “approach,” but is also used as a euphemism for sexual relations. Similarly the translation employs a euphemism. For more on this phrase as a euphemism see the note at 2 Sam 12:24.
- Genesis 30:3 tn After the imperative, the prefixed verbal form with the conjunction indicates the immediate purpose of the proposed activity.
- Genesis 30:3 tn The word “children” is not in the Hebrew text but has been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
- Genesis 30:3 tn Heb “upon my knees.” This is an idiomatic way of saying that Bilhah will be simply a surrogate mother. Rachel will adopt the child as her own.
- Genesis 30:3 tn Heb “and I will be built up, even I, from her.” The prefixed verbal form with the conjunction is subordinated to the preceding prefixed verbal form and gives the ultimate purpose for the proposed action. The idiom of “built up” here refers to having a family (see Gen 16:2, as well as Ruth 4:11 and BDB 125 s.v. בָּנָה).
- Genesis 30:4 tn Heb “and she”; the referent (Rachel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
- Genesis 30:4 tn Heb “came to.” The expression בּוֹא אֶל (boʾ ʾel) means “come to” or “approach,” but is also used as a euphemism for sexual relations.
- Genesis 30:5 tn Or “Bilhah conceived” (also in v. 7).
- Genesis 30:5 tn Heb “and she bore for Jacob a son.”
- Genesis 30:6 tn Heb “and also he has heard my voice.” The expression means that God responded positively to Rachel’s cry and granted her request.
- Genesis 30:6 tn Or “therefore.”
- Genesis 30:6 sn The name Dan means “he vindicated” or “he judged.” The name plays on the verb used in the statement which appears earlier in the verse. The verb translated “vindicated” is from דִּין (din, “to judge, to vindicate”), the same verbal root from which the name is derived. Rachel sensed that God was righting the wrong.
- Genesis 30:7 tn Heb “and she became pregnant again and Bilhah, the servant of Rachel, bore a second son for Jacob.”
- Genesis 30:8 tn Heb “[with] a mighty struggle I have struggled with my sister, also I have prevailed.” The phrase “mighty struggle” reads literally “struggles of God.” The plural participle “struggles” reflects the ongoing nature of the struggle, while the divine name is used here idiomatically to emphasize the intensity of the struggle. See J. Skinner, Genesis (ICC), 387.
- Genesis 30:8 sn The name Naphtali (נַפְתָּלִי, naftali) must mean something like “my struggle” in view of the statement Rachel made in the preceding clause. The name plays on this earlier statement, “[with] a mighty struggle I have struggled with my sister.”
- Genesis 30:9 tn Heb “she took her servant Zilpah and gave her.” The verbs “took” and “gave” are treated as a hendiadys in the translation: “she gave.”
- Genesis 30:10 tn Heb “and Zilpah, the servant of Leah, bore for Jacob a son.”
- Genesis 30:11 tc The statement in the Kethib (consonantal text) appears to mean literally “with good fortune,” if one takes the initial ב (bet) as a preposition indicating accompaniment. The Qere (marginal reading) means “good fortune has arrived.”
- Genesis 30:11 sn The name Gad (גָּד, gad) means “good fortune.” The name reflects Leah’s feeling that good fortune has come her way, as expressed in her statement recorded earlier in the verse.
- Genesis 30:12 tn Heb “and Zilpah, the servant of Leah, bore a second son for Jacob.”
- Genesis 30:13 tn The Hebrew statement apparently means “with my happiness.”
- Genesis 30:13 tn Heb “daughters.”
- Genesis 30:13 sn The name Asher (אָשֶׁר, ʾasher) apparently means “happy one.” The name plays on the words used in the statement which appears earlier in the verse. Both the Hebrew noun and verb translated “happy” and “call me happy,” respectively, are derived from the same root as the name Asher.
- Genesis 30:14 tn Heb “during the days.”
- Genesis 30:14 sn Mandrake plants were popularly believed to be an aphrodisiac in the culture of the time.
- Genesis 30:15 tn Heb “and she said to her”; the referent of the pronoun “she” (Leah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
- Genesis 30:15 tn Heb “therefore.”
- Genesis 30:15 tn Heb “lie down with.” The verb שָׁכַב (shakhav) “to lie down” can be a euphemism for going to bed for sexual relations.
- Genesis 30:16 tn Heb “must come to me.” The imperfect verbal form has an obligatory nuance here. The expression בּוֹא אֶל (boʾ ʾel) means “come to” or “approach,” but is also used as a euphemism for sexual relations.
- Genesis 30:16 tn Heb “I have surely hired.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verbal form for emphasis. The name Issachar (see v. 18) seems to be related to this expression.
- Genesis 30:16 tn Heb “lay down with.” See note at v. 15.
- Genesis 30:17 tn Heb “listened to.”
- Genesis 30:17 tn Or “she conceived” (also in v. 19).
- Genesis 30:17 tn Heb “and she bore for Jacob a fifth son,” i.e., this was the fifth son that Leah had given Jacob.
- Genesis 30:18 tn Heb “God has given my reward.”
- Genesis 30:18 tn The words “as a wife” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied for clarity (cf. v. 9).sn Leah seems to regard the act of giving her servant Zilpah to her husband as a sacrifice, for which (she believes) God is now rewarding her with the birth of a son.
- Genesis 30:18 sn The name Issachar (יִשָּׁשכָר, yissakhar) appears to mean “man of reward” or possibly “there is reward.” The name plays on the word used in the statement made earlier in the verse. The Hebrew noun translated “reward” is derived from the same root as the name Issachar. The irony is that Rachel thought the mandrakes would work for her, and she was willing to trade one night for them. But in that one night Leah became pregnant.
- Genesis 30:19 tn Heb “and she bore a sixth son for Jacob,” i.e., this was the sixth son that Leah had given Jacob.
- Genesis 30:20 sn The name Zebulun (זְבֻלוּן, zevulun) apparently means “honor.” The name plays on the verb used in the statement made earlier in the verse. The Hebrew verb translated “will honor” and the name Zebulun derive from the same root.
- Genesis 30:22 tn Heb “remembered.”
- Genesis 30:22 tn Heb “and God listened to her and opened up her womb.” Since “God” is the subject of the previous clause, the noun has been replaced by the pronoun “he” in the translation for stylistic reasons.
- Genesis 30:23 tn Or “conceived.”
- Genesis 30:23 tn Heb “my reproach.” A “reproach” is a cutting taunt or painful ridicule, but here it probably refers by metonymy to Rachel’s barren condition, which was considered shameful in this culture and was the reason why she was the object of taunting and ridicule.
- Genesis 30:24 sn The name Joseph (יוֹסֵף, yosef) means “may he add.” The name expresses Rachel’s desire to have an additional son. In Hebrew the name sounds like the verb (אָסַף, ʾasaf) translated “taken away” in the earlier statement made in v. 23. So the name, while reflecting Rachel’s hope, was also a reminder that God had removed her shame.
- Genesis 30:25 tn The perfect verbal form is translated as a past perfect because Rachel’s giving birth to Joseph preceded Jacob’s conversation with Laban.
- Genesis 30:25 tn The imperatival form here expresses a request.sn For Jacob to ask to leave would mean that seven more years had passed. Thus all Jacob’s children were born within the range of seven years of each other, with Joseph coming right at the end of the seven years.
- Genesis 30:25 tn Following the imperative, the cohortative with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose or result.
- Genesis 30:25 tn Heb “to my place and to my land.”
- Genesis 30:26 tn Heb “give my wives and my children, for whom I have served you.” In one sense Laban had already “given” Jacob his two daughters as wives (Gen 29:21, 28). Here Jacob was asking for permission to take his own family along with him on the journey back to Canaan.
- Genesis 30:26 tn Following the imperative, the cohortative with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose or result.
- Genesis 30:26 tn Heb “for you, you know my service [with] which I have served you.”
- Genesis 30:27 tn The words “stay here” have been supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.
- Genesis 30:27 tn Or perhaps “I have grown rich and the Lord has blessed me” (cf. NEB). See J. Finkelstein, “An Old Babylonian Herding Contract and Genesis 31:38f.,” JAOS 88 (1968): 34, n. 19.
- Genesis 30:28 tn Heb “set your wage for me so I may give [it].”
- Genesis 30:29 tn Heb “and he said to him, ‘You know how I have served you.’” The order of the introductory clause and the direct discourse has been rearranged in the translation for stylistic reasons, and the referent of the pronoun “he” (Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
- Genesis 30:29 tn Heb “and how your cattle were with me.”
- Genesis 30:30 tn Or “for.”
- Genesis 30:30 tn Heb “before me.”
- Genesis 30:30 tn Heb “and it has broken out with respect to abundance.”
- Genesis 30:30 tn Heb “at my foot.”
- Genesis 30:30 tn Heb “How long [until] I do, also I, for my house?”
- Genesis 30:31 tn Heb “and he said.” The referent (Laban) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
- Genesis 30:31 tn The negated imperfect verbal form has an obligatory nuance.
- Genesis 30:31 tn The order of the introductory clause and the direct discourse has been rearranged in the translation for stylistic reasons.
- Genesis 30:31 tn Heb “If you do for me this thing.”
- Genesis 30:31 tn Heb “I will return, I will tend,” an idiom meaning “I will continue tending.”
- Genesis 30:32 tn Heb “pass through.”
- Genesis 30:32 tn Or “every black lamb”; Heb “and every dark sheep among the lambs.”
- Genesis 30:32 tn Heb “and the spotted and speckled among the goats.”
- Genesis 30:32 tn Heb “and it will be my wage.” The referent collective singular pronoun (“it) has been specified as “these animals” in the translation for clarity.
- Genesis 30:33 tn Heb “will answer on my behalf.”
- Genesis 30:33 tn Heb “on the following day,” or “tomorrow.”
- Genesis 30:33 tn Heb “when you come concerning my wage before you.”sn Only the wage we agreed on. Jacob would have to be considered completely honest here, for he would have no control over the kind of animals born; and there could be no disagreement over which animals were his wages.
- Genesis 30:33 tn Heb “every one which is not speckled and spotted among the lambs and dark among the goats, stolen it is with me.”
- Genesis 30:34 tn Heb “and Laban said, ‘Good, let it be according to your word.’” On the asseverative use of the particle לוּ (lu) here, see HALOT 521 s.v. לוּ.
- Genesis 30:35 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Laban) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
- Genesis 30:35 tn Heb “and he gave [them] into the hand.”
- Genesis 30:36 tn Heb “and he put a journey of three days between himself and Jacob.”sn Three days’ traveling distance from Jacob. E. A. Speiser observes, “Laban is delighted with the terms, and promptly proceeds to violate the spirit of the bargain by removing to a safe distance all the grown animals that would be likely to produce the specified spots” (Genesis [AB], 238). Laban apparently thought that by separating out the spotted, striped, and dark colored animals he could minimize the production of spotted, striped, or dark offspring that would then belong to Jacob.
- Genesis 30:36 tn The disjunctive clause (introduced by the vav [ו] with subject) is circumstantial; Laban removed the animals while Jacob was taking care of the rest.
- Genesis 30:38 sn He put the branches in front of the flocks…when they came to drink. It was generally believed that placing such “visual aids” before the animals as they were mating, it was possible to influence the appearance of their offspring. E. A. Speiser notes that “Jacob finds a way to outwit his father-in-law, through prenatal conditioning of the flock by visual aids—in conformance with universal folk beliefs” (Genesis [AB], 238). Nevertheless, in spite of Jacob’s efforts at animal husbandry, he still attributes the resulting success to God (see 31:5).
- Genesis 30:39 tn The Hebrew verb used here can mean “to be in heat” (see v. 38) or “to mate; to conceive; to become pregnant.” The latter nuance makes better sense in this verse, for the next clause describes them giving birth.
- Genesis 30:39 tn Heb “the sheep.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“they”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
- Genesis 30:40 tn Heb “and he set the faces of.”
- Genesis 30:41 tn Heb “and at every breeding-heat of the flock, the strong females.”
- Genesis 30:42 tn Heb “he did not put [them] in.” The referent of the [understood] direct object, “them,” has been specified as “the branches” in the translation for clarity.
- Genesis 30:42 tn Heb “were for Laban.”
- Genesis 30:43 tn Heb “the man”; Jacob’s name has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
- Genesis 30:43 tn Heb “and there were to him.”
Нач 30
Священное Писание (Восточный перевод), версия для Таджикистана
30 Рахиля видела, что она не рожает Якубу детей, и позавидовала своей сестре Лии. Она сказала Якубу:
– Дай мне детей, или я умру!
2 Якуб разгневался на неё и сказал:
– Разве я Всевышний, Который не даёт тебе детей?
3 Она сказала:
– Вот Билха, моя служанка. Ляг с ней, чтобы она родила мне на колени[a], и у меня будут дети через неё[b].
4 Так она дала ему в жёны свою служанку Билху; Якуб лёг с ней, 5 она забеременела и родила ему сына. 6 Тогда Рахиля сказала: «Всевышний оправдал меня; Он внял моей мольбе и дал мне сына». Поэтому она назвала его Дон («он оправдал»). 7 Билха, служанка Рахили, снова забеременела и родила Якубу второго сына. 8 Тогда Рахиля сказала: «Великой борьбой боролась я с моей сестрой и победила». И она назвала его Неффалим («моя борьба»).
9 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
- Нач 30:3 По-видимому, здесь говорится об обряде усыновления, после которого ребёнок должен был быть признан сыном Рахили.
- Нач 30:3 По древнему ближневосточному обычаю бесплодная жена могла дать свою служанку мужу, чтобы усыновить родившихся от этого детей.
- Нач 30:14 Мандрагора – растение из семейства паслёновых, плоды которого также называли яблоками любви. Считалось, что мандрагоровые яблоки вызывают чувственное влечение и способствуют деторождению.
- Нач 30:27 Гадание – ненавистно для Всевышнего и запрещено законами Таврота (см. Лев. 19:26; Втор. 18:10-12).
Genesis 30
New King James Version
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!”
2 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?”
3 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.” 4 Then she gave him Bilhah her maid (H)as wife, and Jacob went in to her. 5 And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son. 6 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. 7 And Rachel’s maid Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son. 8 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.
9 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
- Genesis 30:3 Lit. be built up by her
- Genesis 30:6 Lit. Judge
- Genesis 30:8 Lit. wrestlings of God
- Genesis 30:8 Lit. My Wrestling
- Genesis 30:11 So with Qr., Syr., Tg.; Kt., LXX, Vg. in fortune
- Genesis 30:11 Lit. Troop or Fortune
- Genesis 30:13 Lit. Happy
- Genesis 30:18 Lit. Wages
- Genesis 30:20 Lit. Dwelling
- Genesis 30:21 Lit. Judgment
- Genesis 30:24 Lit. He Will Add
- Genesis 30:30 Lit. at my foot
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