Genesis

And Rachel saw that she has not borne to Iakob. And Rachel envied her sister. And she said to Iakob: "Give me children. And if not, I will come to an end."

And Iakob, being enraged with Rachel, said to her: "Am I in the place of Theos, who deprived you [of the] fruit of [the] belly?"

And Rachel said to Iakob: "Behold: my maidservant Balla. Enter towards her, and she will bear upon my knees, and also I will produce children from out of her."

And she gave Balla to him: her maidservant to him [as] wife. And Iakob entered towards her.

And Balla, the maidservant of Rachel, conceived, and bore to Iakob a son.

And Rachel said: "The Theos judged me, and listened to my voice, and has gave me a son through this [one]. On account of this she called his name Dan."

And Balla, the maidservant of Rachel, conceived again, and bore a second son to Iakob.

And Rachel said: "The Theos has aided me, and I was twisted [by] my sister, and I was able." And she called his name Nephthaleím.

And Leia saw that she ceased [from] bearing. And she took her maidservant Zelpha, and gave her to Iakob [as] wife. And he entered towards her.

And Zelpha, the maidservant of Leia, conceived, and bore Iakob a son.

And Leia said: "[I am] in good luck." And she named his name Gad.

And Zelpha, the maidservant of Leia, conceived again, and bore to Iakob a second son.

And Leia said: "I [am] blessed, for the women pronounce me blessed." And she called his name Aser.

And Rouben proceeded in [the] day [of the] wheat harvest, and he found apples of mandrakes in the field. And he brought them to his mother Leia. And Rachel said to her sister Leia: "Give of me of the mandrakes of your son!"

And Leia said: "[Is it] not sufficient to you that you took my husband? Shall you also take of the mandrakes of my son?" And Rachel said: "Not so. Let him go to bed with you this night in return for the mandrakes of your son."

And Iakob entered from out of [the] field [at] evening. And Leia came forth to meet him, and said: "You shall enter towards me today, for I have hired you in return for the mandrakes of my son." And he went to bed with her that night.

And the Theos listened to Leia. And conceiving, she bore a fifth son [to] Iakob.

And Leia said: "The Theos gave to me my wage, because I gave my maidservant to my husband." And she called his name Issachar, which is wage.

And Leia conceived again, and bore a sixth son [to] Iakob.

And Leia said: "The Theos has given me a good gift in the present time. My man will select me, for having born to him six sons." And she called his name Zaboulon.

And after this she bore a daughter, and she called her name Deina.

And the Theos remembered Rachel. And the Theos listened to her, and he opened her womb.

And conceiving, she bore to Iakob a son. And Rachel said: "The Theos removed [from] me the scorn."

And she called his name Ioseph, saying: "Let the Theos add to me another son."

And it came to pass when Rachel bore Ioseph, [that] Iakob said to Laban: "Send me away, that I may go forth into my place and into my land.

Restore to me my wives and my children, for whom I have served to you, that I might go forth, for you know the service wherewith I have served you."

And Laban said to him: "Could I even foretell if I found grace before you? For the Theos blessed me [in] your entrance.

Order your wage towards me, and I will give [it]."

And Iakob said: "You know in what I served you, and how much of your cattle was with me.

For it was little as much as was to you before me, and it was grown into a multitude. And the lord Theos blessed upon my foot. Now then, when shall I also make for myself a house?"

And Laban said to him: "What shall I give you?" And Iakob said to him: "You shall not give to me anything. If you should do for me this word, I will again tend your flocks and guard [them].

Let all your sheep pass by today, and set apart from there every grey sheep among the rams, and all white-mixed and speckled among the goats. It will be to me [the] wage.

And my righteousness will listen to me in the next day, for my wage [is] before you. All which might not be speckled and white-mixed among the goats, and grey among the rams, will be [as] stolen beside me."

And Laban said to him: "Let it be according to your word."

And he set apart in that day the speckled and the white-mixed male goats, and all the speckled and the white-mixed female goats, and all grey, the one which was among the rams, and every one that was white among them. And he gave [them] in [the] hand of his sons.

And he put a distance of three days' journey between them and between Iakob. Now Iakob was shepherding Laban's remaining sheep.

And Iakob took to himself a rod of green poplar, and of walnut, and of [the] plane-tree. And Iakob peeled them [into] white peels, tearing away the green. And there appeared upon the rods the white stripe which he peeled [into] many colored.

And he placed the rods which he peeled in the channels of the watering troughs of the water, that whenever the sheep came to drink before the rods, those having come to drink should become stimulated into the rods,

and the sheep should produce white-mixed, and colored, and ashen-speckled [young].

And Iakob set apart the lambs. And he set a white-mixed ram before the sheep, and every colored [one] among the lambs. And he parted to himself flocks for himself, and did not mingle them into the sheep of Laban.

And it came to pass in the time wherein the sheep became stimulated in [the] womb, [that] Iakob taking [them] put the rods before the sheep in the watering troughs [for] the [purpose of] stimulating them by the rods.

But whenever the sheep bore, he did not place [them]. And the unmarked ones became Laban's, and the marked Iakob's.