Genesis Chapter 30 Contemporary English Version (2006)

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창세기 30장은 야곱의 아내 라헬과 레아가 여종까지 내주며 아들을 낳으려 다투어 요셉을 포함한 여러 자녀가 태어나는 이야기와, 야곱이 라반과 품삯을 정하고 양 떼로 부유해지는 이야기를 담은 장이다.

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¹Rachel was very jealous of Leah for having children, and she said to Jacob, “I'll die if you don't give me some children!”

²But Jacob became upset with Rachel and answered, “Don't blame me! I'm not God.”

³“Here, take my servant Bilhah,” Rachel told him. “Have children by her, and I'll let them be born on my knees to show that they are mine.”

⁴Then Rachel let Jacob marry Bilhah,

⁵and they had a son.

⁶Rachel named him Dan, because she said, “God has answered my prayers. He judged in my favor and has given me a son.”

⁷When Bilhah and Jacob had a second son,

⁸Rachel said, “I've struggled hard with my sister, and I've won!” So she named the boy Naphtali.

⁹When Leah realized she could not have any more children, she let Jacob marry her servant Zilpah,

¹⁰and they had a son.

¹¹“I'm really lucky,” Leah said, and she named the boy Gad.

¹²When they had another son,

¹³Leah exclaimed, “I'm happy now, and all the women will say how happy I am.” So she named him Asher.

¹⁴During the time of the wheat harvest, Reuben found some love flowers and took them to his mother Leah. Rachel asked Leah for some of them,

¹⁵but Leah said, “It's bad enough that you stole my husband! Now you want my son's love flowers too.” “All right,” Rachel answered. “Let me have the flowers, and you can sleep with Jacob tonight.”

¹⁶That evening when Jacob came in from the fields, Leah told him, “You're sleeping with me tonight. I hired you with my son's love flowers.” They slept together that night,

¹⁷and God answered Leah's prayers by giving her a fifth son.

¹⁸Leah shouted, “God has rewarded me for letting Jacob marry my servant,” and she named the boy Issachar.

¹⁹When Leah had another son,

²⁰she exclaimed, “God has given me a wonderful gift, and my husband will praise me for giving him six sons.” So she named the boy Zebulun.

²¹Later, Leah had a daughter and named her Dinah.

²³Finally, God remembered Rachel—he answered her prayer by giving her a son. “God has taken away my disgrace,” she said.

²⁴“I'll name the boy Joseph, and I'll pray that the Lord will give me another son.”

²⁵After Joseph was born, Jacob said to Laban, “Release me from our agreement and let me return to my own country.

²⁶You know how hard I've worked for you, so let me take my wives and children and leave.”

²⁸But Laban told him, “If you really are my friend, stay on, and I'll pay whatever you ask. I'm sure the Lord has blessed me because of you.”

²⁹Jacob answered: You've seen how hard I've worked for you, and you know how your flocks and herds have grown under my care.

³⁰You didn't have much before I came, but the Lord has blessed everything I have ever done for you. Now it's time for me to start looking out for my own family.

³¹“How much do you want me to pay you?” Laban asked. Then Jacob told him: I don't want you to pay me anything. Just do one thing, and I'll take care of your sheep and goats.

³²Let me go through your flocks and herds and take the sheep and goats that are either spotted or speckled and the black lambs. That's all you need to give me.

³³In the future you can easily find out if I've been honest. Just look and see if my animals are either spotted or speckled, or if the lambs are black. If they aren't, they've been stolen from you.

³⁴“I agree to that,” was Laban's response.

³⁵Before the end of the day, Laban had separated his spotted and speckled animals and the black lambs from the others and had put his sons in charge of them.

³⁶Then Laban made Jacob keep the rest of the sheep and goats at a distance of three days' journey.

³⁷Jacob cut branches from some poplar trees and from some almond and evergreen trees. He peeled off part of the bark and made the branches look spotted and speckled.

³⁸Then he put the branches where the sheep and goats would see them while they were drinking from the water trough. The goats mated there

³⁹in front of the branches, and their young were spotted and speckled.

⁴⁰Some of the sheep that Jacob was keeping for Laban were already spotted. And when the others were ready to mate, he made sure that they faced in the direction of the spotted and black ones. In this way, Jacob built up a flock of sheep for himself and did not put them with the other sheep.

⁴¹When the stronger sheep were mating near the drinking place, Jacob made sure that the spotted branches were there.

⁴²But he would not put out the branches when the weaker animals were mating. So Jacob got all of the healthy animals, and Laban got what was left.

⁴³Jacob soon became rich and successful. He owned many sheep, goats, camels, and donkeys, as well as a lot of slaves.

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