30:22 神记念拉结，垂听了她，使她能生育。
Then God remembered Rachel, and God gave heed to her and opened her womb.
30:23 拉结怀孕生子，说，神除去了我的羞辱，
And she conceived and bore a son and said, God has taken away my reproach.
30:24 就给他起名叫约瑟，说，愿耶和华再给我增添一个儿子。
And she called his name Joseph, saying, May Jehovah add to me another son.
30:25 拉结生约瑟之后，雅各对拉班说，请打发我走，叫我回到我本乡本地去。
And when Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, Send me away, that I may go to my own place and to my own country.
30:26 请你把我服事你所得的妻子和儿女给我，让我走；我怎样服事你，你都知道。
Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, that I may go; for you indeed know my service by which I have served you.
30:27 拉班对他说，我若在你眼前蒙恩，请你仍与我同住，因为我已算定，耶和华赐福与我是因你的缘故；
And Laban said to him, If you please, I have divined that Jehovah has blessed me on account of you.
30:28 又说，请你指明你的工价，我就给你。
And he said, Name me your wages, and I will give it.
30:29 雅各对他说，我怎样服事你，你的牲口在我手里怎样，你是知道的。
And Jacob said to him, You indeed know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.
30:30 我未来之前，你所有的很少，现今却发达增多，耶和华随我的脚步赐福与你。如今，我什么时候也为自己的家作些事呢？
For you had little before I came, and it has spread into a multitude, and Jehovah has blessed you wherever I turned. But now when shall I provide for my own house also?
30:31 拉班说，我当给你什么？雅各说，你什么也不必给我；只要你为我作这一件事，我便仍旧牧放看守你的羊群。
And he said, What shall I give you? And Jacob said, You shall not give me anything. Just do this one thing for me: Let me again feed your flock and keep it.
30:32 今天我要走遍你的羊群，把其中凡有点的、有斑的，就是绵羊中黑色的，并山羊中有斑的、有点的，都挑出来；将来这一等的就算是我的工价。
Let me pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted animal, that is, every black animal among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and such will be my wages.
30:33 以后你来查看我的工价，凡在我手里的山羊不是有点有斑的，绵羊不是黑色的，那就算是我偷的；这样便可证出我的公义。
So my righteousness will testify for me later, when you come concerning my wages, by what is before you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and black among the sheep, if found with me, will be counted stolen.
30:34 拉班说，好阿，就照着你的话行罢。
And Laban said, Fine; let it be according to your word.
30:35 当日，拉班把有纹的、有斑的公山羊，有点的、有斑的母山羊，就是凡杂有白色的山羊，并黑色的绵羊，都挑出来，交在他儿子们的手下，
But on 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 care of his sons;
30:36 又使自己和雅各相离三天的路程；雅各就牧养拉班其余的羊。
And he set a distance of a three days' journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
30:37 雅各拿杨树、杏树、枫树的嫩枝，将皮剥成白纹，使枝子露出白的来；
And Jacob took rods of fresh poplar and almond and plane trees and peeled white stripes in them, exposing the white which was in the rods.
30:38 他将剥了皮的枝子，对着羊群，插在羊群喝水的水槽里；羊来喝水的时候，公母交配。
And he set the rods which he had peeled in front of the flocks in the troughs, that is, in the watering places where the flocks came to drink; and they bred when they came to drink.
30:39 羊对着枝子交配，就生下有纹的、有点的、有斑的来。
And the flocks bred before the rods; and the flocks brought forth young that were streaked, speckled, and spotted.
30:40 雅各把羊羔分出来，使拉班的羊与这有纹和黑色的羊相对，把自己的羊另放一处，不叫他的羊和拉班的羊混杂。
And Jacob separated the lambs and set the faces of the flock toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban, and he put his own herds apart and did not put them with Laban's flock.
30:41 当羊群中肥壮的交配的时候，雅各就把枝子插在水槽里，正在羊群的眼前，使羊对着枝子交配。
And whenever the stronger of the flock were breeding, Jacob placed the rods before the eyes of the flock in the troughs so that they might breed among the rods;
30:42 只是在羊群瘦弱的时候，就不插枝子。这样，瘦弱的就归拉班，肥壮的就归雅各。
But when the flock was feebler, he did not put them in; so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
30:43 于是雅各极其发达，得了许多的羊群、仆人、婢女、骆驼和驴。
And the man became spread out exceedingly, and had large flocks, and female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.
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