Yubalym (Jubilee) — 28

1 And Ya'aqub went on his journey, and came to the land of the east, to Laban, the brother of Rabaqah, and he was with him, and served him for Rachal his daughter one week.

2 And in the first year of the third week he said unto him: Give me my woman, for whom I have served you seven years; and Laban said unto Ya'aqub: I will give you your woman.

3 And Laban made a feast, and took La'ah his elder daughter, and gave her to Ya'aqub as his woman and gave her Zilpah her handmaid; and Ya'aqub did not know, for he thought that she was Rachal.

4 And Ya'aqub went in unto her, and behold, she was La'ah; and Ya'aqub was angry with Laban, and said unto him: Why have you dealt thus with me? Did not I serve you for Rachal and not for La'ah? Why have you wronged me? Take your daughter, and I will go; for you have done evil to me.

5 For Ya'aqub loved Rachal more than La'ah; for La'ah's eyes were weak, but her form was very handsome; but Rachal had beautiful eyes and a beautiful and very handsome form.

6 And Laban said to Ya'aqub: It is not so done in our country, to give the younger before the elder. And it is not right to do this; for thus it is ordained and written in the Shamaym tablets, that no one should give his younger daughter before the elder; give the elder daughter first for marriage and after her you can give the younger and the man who does so, they set down guilt against him in Shamaym, and none is righteous that does this thing, for this deed is evil before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH.

7 And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH command you the children of Yashar'AL that they do not this thing; let them neither take nor give the younger before they have to give the elder, for it is wickedness.

8 And Laban said to Ya'aqub: Let the seven days of the feast of this one pass by, and I shall give you Rachal, that you may serve me another seven years, that you may pasture my sheep as you did in the former week.

9 And on the day when the seven days of the feast of La'ah had passed, Laban gave Rachal to Ya'aqub, that he might serve him another seven years, and he gave to Rachal Bilhah, the sister of Zilpah, as a handmaid.

10 And Ya'aqub served yet other seven years for Rachal, for La'ah had been given to him for nothing.

11 And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH opened the womb of La'ah, and she conceived and bore Ya'aqub a son, and he called his name Ra'uban, on the fourteenth day of the ninth month, in the first year of the third week.

12 But the womb of Rachal was closed, for 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH saw that La'ah was hated, and Rachal loved.

13 And again Ya'aqub went in unto La'ah, and she conceived, and bore Ya'aqub a second son, and he called his name Shim'un, on the twenty first of the tenth month, and in the third year of this week.

14 And again Ya'aqub went in unto La'ah, and she conceived, and bore him a third son, and he called his name La'uy, in the New Moon of the first month in the sixth year of this week.

15 And again Ya'aqub went in unto her, and she conceived, and bore him a fourth son, and he called his name Yahudah, on the fifteenth of the third month, in the first year of the fourth week.

16 And on account of all this Rachal envied La'ah, for she did not bear, and she said to Ya'aqub: Give me children; and Ya'aqub said: Have I withheld from you the fruits of your womb? Have I forsaken you?

17 And when Rachal saw that La'ah had borne four sons to Ya'aqub, Ra'uban and Shim'un and La'uy and Yahudah, she said unto him: Go in unto Bilhah my handmaid, and she will conceive, and bear a son unto me. And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to be his woman.

18 And he went in unto her, and she conceived, and bore him a son, and he called his name Dan, on the ninth of the sixth month, in the sixth year of the third week.

19 And Ya'aqub went in again unto Bilhah a second time, and she conceived, and bore Ya'aqub another son, and Rachal called his name Napthaliy, on the fifth of the seventh month, in the second year of the fourth week.

20 And when La'ah saw that she had become sterile and did not bear, she envied Rachal, and she also gave her handmaid Zilpah to Ya'aqub to be his woman, and she conceived, and bore a son, and La'ah called his name Gad, on the twelfth of the eighth month, in the third year of the fourth week.

21 And he went in again unto her, and she conceived, and bore him a second son, and La'ah called his name Asher, on the second of the eleventh month, in the fifth year of the fourth week.

22 And Ya'aqub went in unto La'ah, and she conceived, and bore a son, and she called his name Yisshakar, on the fourth of the fifth month, in the fourth year of the fourth week, and she gave him to a nurse.

23 And Ya'aqub went in again unto her, and she conceived, and bore two children, a son and a daughter, and she called the name of the son Zabulun, and the name of the daughter Diynah, in the seventh of the seventh month, in the sixth year of the fourth week.

24 And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH Favoured Rachal, and opened her womb, and she conceived, and bore a son, and she called his name Ya'asaf, on the New Moon of the fourth month, in the sixth year in this fourth week.

25 And in the days when Ya'asaf was born, Ya'aqub said to Laban: Give me my women and sons, and let me go to my father Yachaq, and let me make me a house; for I have completed the years in which I have served you for your two daughters, and I will go to the house of my father.

26 And Laban said to Ya'aqub: Tarry with me for your wages, and pasture my flock for me again, and take your wages.

27 And they agreed with one another that he should give him as his wages those of the lambs and kids which were born black and spotted and white, these were to be his wages.

28 And all the sheep brought forth spotted and speckled and black, variously marked, and they brought forth again lambs like themselves, and all that were spotted were Ya'aqub's and those which were not were Laban's.

29 And Ya'aqub's possessions multiplied exceedingly, and he possessed oxen and sheep and asses and camels, and menservants and maidservants.

30 And Laban and his sons envied Ya'aqub, and Laban took back his sheep from him, and he observed him with evil intent.