Beresheet, starting at chapter 28
{28:1} Yitzchak called Ya`akov, blessed him, and commanded him, "You
shall not take a wife of the daughters of Kana`an. {28:2} Arise, go to
Paddan-Aram, to the house of Betu'el your mother's father. Take a wife
from there from the daughters of Lavan, your mother's brother. {28:3}
May El Shaddai bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you,
that you may be a company of peoples, {28:4} and give you the blessing
of Avraham, to you, and to your seed with you, that you may inherit
the land where you travel, which God gave to Avraham."
{28:5} Yitzchak sent Ya`akov away. He went to Paddan-Aram to Lavan,
son of Betu'el the Arammian, Rivka's brother, Ya`akov's and Esav's
mother.
{28:6} Now Esav saw that Yitzchak had blessed Ya`akov and sent him
away to Paddan-Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he
blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, "You shall not take a wife
of the daughters of Kana`an," {28:7} and that Ya`akov obeyed his
father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan-Aram. {28:8} Esav saw
that the daughters of Kana`an didn't please Yitzchak, his father.
{28:9} Esav went to Yishma'el, and took, besides the wives that he
had, Machalat the daughter of Yishma'el, Avraham's son, the sister of
Nevayot, to be his wife.
{28:10} Ya`akov went out from Be'er-Sheva, and went toward Haran.
{28:11} He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night,
because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place, and
put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep. {28:12} He
dreamed. Behold, a stairway set up on the [1>]eretz[<1], and the top
of it reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God ascending and
descending on it. {28:13} Behold, the LORD stood above it, and said,
"I am the LORD, the God of Avraham your father, and the God of
Yitzchak. The land whereon you lie, to you will I give it, and to your
seed. {28:14} Your seed will be as the dust of the [2>]eretz[<2], and
you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north,
and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the
[3>]eretz[<3] be blessed. {28:15} Behold, I am with you, and will keep
you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I
will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to
you."
{28:16} Ya`akov awakened out of his sleep, and he said, "Surely the
LORD is in this place, and I didn't know it." {28:17} He was afraid,
and said, "How dreadful is this place! This is none other than God's
house, and this is the gate of heaven."
{28:18} Ya`akov rose up early in the morning, and took the stone
that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured
oil on the top of it. {28:19} He called the name of that place
Beit-El, but the name of the city was Luz at the first. {28:20}
Ya`akov vowed a vow, saying, "If God will be with me, and will keep me
in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to
put on, {28:21} so that I come again to my father's house in shalom,
and the LORD will be my God, {28:22} then this stone, which I have set
up for a pillar, will be God's house. Of all that you will give me I
will surely give the tenth to you."
{29:1} Then Ya`akov went on his journey, and came to the land of the
children of the east. {29:2} He looked, and behold, a well in the
field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out
of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well's mouth
was great. {29:3} There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the
stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone
again on the well's mouth in its place. {29:4} Ya`akov said to them,
"My relatives, where are you from?"
They said, "We are from Haran."
{29:5} He said to them, "Do you know Lavan, the son of Nachor?"
They said, "We know him."
{29:6} He said to them, "Is it well with him?"
They said, "It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with
the sheep."
{29:7} He said, "Behold, it is still the middle of the day, not time
to gather the cattle together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them."
{29:8} They said, We can't, until all the flocks are gathered
together, and they roll the stone from the well's mouth. Then we water
the sheep."
{29:9} While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her
father's sheep, for she kept them. {29:10} It happened, when Ya`akov
saw Rachel the daughter of Lavan, his mother's brother, and the sheep
of Lavan, his mother's brother, that Ya`akov went near, and rolled the
stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Lavan his
mother's brother. {29:11} Ya`akov kissed Rachel, and lifted up his
voice, and wept. {29:12} Ya`akov told Rachel that he was her father's
brother, and that he was Rivka's son. She ran and told her father.
{29:13} It happened, when Lavan heard the news of Ya`akov, his
sister's son, that he ran to meet Ya`akov, and embraced him, and
kissed him, and brought him to his house. Ya`akov told Lavan all these
things. {29:14} Lavan said to him, Surely you are my bone and my
flesh. He lived with him for a month. {29:15} Lavan said to Ya`akov,
"Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for
nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?"
{29:16} Lavan had two daughters. The name of the elder was Le'ah,
and the name of the younger was Rachel. {29:17} Le'ah's eyes were
weak, but Rachel was beautiful and well favored. {29:18} Ya`akov loved
Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your
younger daughter."
{29:19} Lavan said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that
I should give her to another man. Stay with me."
{29:20} Ya`akov served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him
but a few days, for the love he had for her.
{29:21} Ya`akov said to Lavan, "Give me my wife, for my days are
fulfilled, that I may go in to her."
{29:22} Lavan gathered together all the men of the place, and made a
feast. {29:23} It happened in the evening, that he took Le'ah his
daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her. {29:24} Lavan
gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Le'ah for a handmaid. {29:25}
It happened in the morning that, behold, it was Le'ah. He said to
Lavan, "What is this you have done to me? Didn't I serve with you for
Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?"
{29:26} Lavan said, "It is not done so in our place, to give the
younger before the first born. {29:27} Fulfill the week of this one,
and we will give you the other also for the service which you will
serve with me yet seven other years."
{29:28} Ya`akov did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel
his daughter as wife. {29:29} Lavan gave to Rachel his daughter
Bilhah, his handmaid, to be her handmaid. {29:30} He went in also to
Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Le'ah, and served with him
yet seven other years.
{29:31} The LORD saw that Le'ah was hated, and he opened her womb,
but Rachel was barren. {29:32} Le'ah conceived, and bore a son, and
she named him Re'uven. For she said, "Because the LORD has looked at
my affliction. For now my husband will love me." {29:33} She conceived
again, and bare a son, and said, "Because the LORD has heard that I am
hated, he has therefore given me this son also." She named him
Shim`on. {29:34} She conceived again, and bare a son. Said, "Now this
time will my husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three
sons." Therefore was his name called Levi. {29:35} She conceived
again, and bare a son. She said, "This time will I praise the LORD."
Therefore she named him Yehudah. Then she stopped bearing.
{30:1} When Rachel saw that she bore Ya`akov no children, Rachel
envied her sister. She said to Ya`akov, "Give me children, or else I
will die."
{30:2} Ya`akov'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?"
{30:3} She said, "Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may
bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her." {30:4} She
gave him Bilhah her handmaid as wife, and Ya`akov went in to her.
{30:5} Bilhah conceived, and bore Ya`akov a son. {30:6} Rachel said,
"God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a
son." Therefore called she his name Dan. {30:7} Bilhah, Rachel's
handmaid, conceived again, and bore Ya`akov a second son. {30:8}
Rachel said, "With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister,
and have prevailed." She named him Naftali.
{30:9} When Le'ah saw that she had finished bearing, she took
Zilpah, her handmaid, and gave her to Ya`akov as a wife. {30:10}
Zilpah, Le'ah's handmaid, bore Ya`akov a son. {30:11} Le'ah said, "How
fortunate!" She named him Gad. {30:12} Zilpah, Le'ah's handmaid, bore
Ya`akov a second son. {30:13} Le'ah said, "Happy am I, for the
daughters will call me happy." She named him Asher.
{30:14} Re'uven went in the days of wheat harvest, and found
[1>]dudaim[<1] in the field, and brought them to his mother, Le'ah.
Then Rachel said to Le'ah, "Please give me some of your son's
[2>]dudaim[<2]."
{30:15} She said to her, "Is it a small matter that you have taken
away my husband? Would you take away my son's [3>]dudaim[<3], also?"
Rachel said, "Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son's
[4>]dudaim[<4]."
{30:16} Ya`akov came from the field in the evening, and Le'ah went
out to meet him, and said, "You must come in to me; for I have surely
hired you with my son's [5>]dudaim[<5]."
He lay with her that night. {30:17} God listened to Le'ah, and she
conceived, and bore Ya`akov a fifth son. {30:18} Le'ah said, "God has
given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband." She named
him Yissakhar. {30:19} Le'ah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to
Ya`akov. {30:20} Le'ah 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 Zevulun. {30:21} Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and
named her Dinah.
{30:22} God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened
her womb. {30:23} She conceived, bore a son, and said, "God has taken
away my reproach. {30:24} She named him Yosef, saying, "May the LORD
add another son to me."
{30:25} It happened, when Rachel had borne Yosef, that Ya`akov said
to Lavan, "Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my
country. {30:26} Give 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."
{30:27} Lavan said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes,
stay here, for I have divined that the LORD has blessed me for your
sake." {30:28} He said, "Appoint me your wages, and I will give it."
{30:29} He said to him, "You know how I have served you, and how
your cattle have fared with me. {30:30} For it was little which you
had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. The LORD has
blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own
house also?"
{30:31} He said, "What shall I give you?"
Ya`akov said, "You shall not give me anything. If you will do this
thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it. {30:32} I 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. {30:33} So my
righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning
my hire that is before you. Everyone that is not speckled and spotted
among the goats, and black among the sheep, that might be with me,
will be counted stolen."
{30:34} Lavan said, "Behold, I desire it to be according to your
word."
{30:35} That 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. {30:36} He set three
days' journey between himself and Ya`akov, and Ya`akov fed the rest of
Lavan's flocks.
{30:37} Ya`akov 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. {30:38} He 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. {30:39} The
flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth
streaked, speckled, and spotted. {30:40} Ya`akov separated the lambs,
and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black
in the flock of Lavan: and he put his own droves apart, and didn't put
them into Lavan's flock. {30:41} It happened, whenever the stronger of
the flock conceived, that Ya`akov laid the rods before the eyes of the
flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods; {30:42}
but when the flock were feeble, he didn't put them in. So the feebler
were Lavan's, and the stronger Ya`akov's. {30:43} The man increased
exceedingly, and had large flocks, maid-servants and men-servants, and
camels and donkeys.
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Footnotes:
[1] {28:12} earth
[2] {28:14} earth
[3] {28:14} earth
[1] {30:14} mandrakes
[2] {30:14} mandrakes
[3] {30:15} mandrakes
[4] {30:15} mandrakes
[5] {30:16} mandrakes
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