Genesis 31
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
Chinese Union Version, punctuated (Traditional)
1But after that he heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying: Jacob hath taken away all that was our father’s, and being enriched by his substance is become great:
1雅各 聽見 拉班 的兒子們有話說：「 雅各 把我們父親所有的都奪了去，並藉着我們父親的，得了這一切的榮耀。」
2And perceiving also that Laban’s countenance was not towards him as yesterday and the other day,
2雅各 見 拉班 的氣色向他不如從前了。
3Especially the Lord saying to him: Return into the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred, and I will be with thee.
3耶和華對 雅各 說：「你要回你祖、你父之地，到你親族那裏去，我必與你同在。」
4He sent, and called Rachel and Lia into the field, where he fed the flocks,
4雅各 就打發人，叫 拉結 和 利亞 到田野羊群那裏來，
5And said to them: I see your father’s countenance is not towards me as yesterday and the other day: but the God of my father hath been with me.
5對她們說：「我看你們父親的氣色向我不如從前了；但我父親的上帝向來與我同在。
6And you know that I have served your father to the uttermost of my power.
6你們也知道，我盡了我的力量服事你們的父親。
7Yea, your father also hath overreached me, and hath changed my wages ten times: and yet God hath not suffered him to hurt me.
7你們的父親欺哄我，十次改了我的工價；然而上帝不容他害我。
8If at any time he said: The speckled shall be thy wages: all the sheep brought forth speckled: but when he said on the contrary: Thou shalt take all the white ones for thy wages: all the flocks brought forth white ones.
8他若說：『有點的歸你作工價』，羊群所生的都有點；他若說：『有紋的歸你作工價』，羊群所生的都有紋。
9And God hath taken your father’s substance, and given it to me.
9這樣，上帝把你們父親的牲畜奪來賜給我了。
10For after that time came of the ewes conceiving, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in my sleep that the males which leaped upon the females were of divers colours, and spotted, and speckled.
10羊配合的時候，我夢中舉目一看，見跳母羊的公羊都是有紋的、有點的、有花斑的。
11And the angel of God said to me in my sleep: Jacob? And I answered: Here I am.
11上帝的使者在那夢中呼叫我說：『 雅各 。』我說：『我在這裏。』
12And he said: Lift up thy eyes, and see that all the males leaping upon the females, are of divers colours, spotted, and speckled. For I have seen all that Laban hath done to thee.
12他說：『你舉目觀看，跳母羊的公羊都是有紋的、有點的、有花斑的；凡 拉班 向你所做的，我都看見了。
13I am the God of Bethel, where thou didst anoint the stone, and make a vow to me. Now therefore arise, and go out of this land, and return into thy native country.
13我是 伯特利 的上帝；你在那裏 用油 澆過柱子，向我許過願。現今你起來，離開這地，回你本地去吧！』」
14And Rachel and Lia answered: Have we any thing left among the goods and inheritance of our father’s house?
14拉結 和 利亞 回答 雅各 說：「在我們父親的家裏還有我們可得的分嗎？還有我們的產業嗎？
15Hath he not counted us as strangers and sold us, and eaten up the price of us?
15我們不是被他當作外人嗎？因為他賣了我們，吞了我們的價值。
16But God hath taken our father’s riches, and delivered them to us, and to our children: wherefore do all that God hath commanded thee.
16上帝從我們父親所奪出來的一切財物，那就是我們和我們孩子們的。現今凡上帝所吩咐你的，你只管去行吧！」
17Then Jacob rose up, and having set his children and wives upon camels, went his way.
17雅各 起來，使他的兒子和妻子都騎上駱駝，
18And he took all his substance, and flocks, and whatsoever he had gotten in Mesopotamia, and went forward to Isaac his father to the land of Chanaan.
18又帶着他在 巴旦‧亞蘭 所得的一切牲畜和財物，往 迦南 地、他父親 以撒 那裏去了。
19At that time Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole away her father’s idols.
19當時 拉班 剪羊毛去了， 拉結 偷了他父親家中的神像。
20And Jacob would not confess to his father in law that he was flying away.
20雅各 背着 亞蘭 人 拉班 偷走了，並不告訴他，
21And when he was gone, together with all that belonged to him, and having passed the river, was going on towards mount Galaad,
21就帶着所有的逃跑。他起身過大河，面向 基列山 行去。
22It was told Laban on the third day that Jacob fled.
22到第三日，有人告訴 拉班 ， 雅各 逃跑了。
23And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days; and overtook him in the mount of Galaad.
23拉班 帶領他的眾弟兄去追趕，追了七日，在 基列山 就追上了。
24And he saw in a dream God saying to him: Take heed thou speak not any thing harshly against Jacob.
24夜間，上帝到 亞蘭 人 拉班 那裏，在夢中對他說：「你要小心，不可與 雅各 說好說歹。」
25Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain: and when he with his brethren had overtaken him, he pitched his tent in the same mount of Galaad.
25拉班 追上 雅各 。 雅各 在山上支搭帳棚； 拉班 和他的眾弟兄也在 基列山 上支搭帳棚。
26And he said to Jacob: Why hast thou done thus, to carry away, without my knowledge, my daughters, as captives taken with the sword.
26拉班 對 雅各 說：「你做的是甚麼事呢？你背着我偷走了，又把我的女兒們帶了去，如同用刀劍擄去的一般。
27Why wouldst thou run away privately and not acquaint me, that I might have brought thee on the way with joy, and with songs, and with timbrels, and with harps?
27你為甚麼暗暗地逃跑，偷着走，並不告訴我，叫我可以歡樂、唱歌、擊鼓、彈琴地送你回去？
28Thou hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and daughters: thou hast done foolishly: and now, indeed,
28又不容我與外孫和女兒親嘴？你所行的真是愚昧！
29It is in my power to return thee evil: but the God of your father said to me yesterday: Take heed thou speak not any thing harshly against Jacob.
29我手中原有能力害你，只是你父親的上帝昨夜對我說：『你要小心，不可與 雅各 說好說歹。』
30Suppose thou didst desire to go to thy friends, and hadst a longing after thy father’s house: why hast thou stolen away my gods?
30現在你雖然想你父家，不得不去，為甚麼又偷了我的神像呢？」
31Jacob answered: That I departed unknown to thee, it was for fear lest thou wouldst take away thy daughters by force.
31雅各 回答 拉班 說：「恐怕你把你的女兒從我奪去，所以我逃跑。
32But whereas thou chargest me with theft: with whomsoever thou shalt find thy gods, let him be slain before our brethren. Search, and if thou find any of thy things with me, take them away. Now when he said this, he knew not that Rachel had stolen the idols.
32至於你的神像，你在誰那裏搜出來，就不容誰存活。當着我們的眾弟兄，你認一認，在我這裏有甚麼東西是你的，就拿去。」原來 雅各 不知道 拉結 偷了那些神像。
33So Laban went into the tent of Jacob, and of Lia, and of both the handmaids, and found them not. And when he was entered into Rachel’s tent,
33拉班 進了 雅各 、 利亞 ，並兩個使女的帳棚，都沒有搜出來，就從 利亞 的帳棚出來，進了 拉結 的帳棚。
34She in haste hid the idols under the camel’s furniture, and sat upon them: and when he had searched all the tent, and found nothing,
34拉結 已經把神像藏在駱駝的馱簍裏，便坐在上頭。 拉班 摸遍了那帳棚，並沒有摸着。
35She said: Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee, because it has now happened to me, according to the custom of women, So his careful search was in vain.
35拉結 對她父親說：「現在我身上不便，不能在你面前起來，求我主不要生氣。」這樣， 拉班 搜尋神像，竟沒有搜出來。
36And Jacob being angry, said in a chiding manner: For what fault of mine, and for what offence on my part hast thou so hotly pursued me,
36雅各 就發怒斥責 拉班 說：「我有甚麼過犯，有甚麼罪惡，你竟這樣火速地追我？
37And searched all my household stuff? What hast thou found of all the substance of thy house? lay it here before my brethren, and thy brethren, and let them judge between me and thee.
37你摸遍了我一切的家具，你搜出甚麼來呢？可以放在你我弟兄面前，叫他們在你我中間辨別辨別。
38Have I therefore been with thee twenty years? thy ewes and goats were not barren, the rams of thy flocks I did not eat:
38我在你家這二十年，你的母綿羊、母山羊沒有掉過胎。你群中的公羊，我沒有吃過；
39Neither did I show thee that which the beast had torn, I made good all the damage: whatsoever was lost by theft, thou didst exact it of me:
39被野獸撕裂的，我沒有帶來給你，是我自己賠上。無論是白日，是黑夜，被偷去的，你都向我索要。
40Day and night was I parched with heat, and with frost, and sleep departed from my eyes.
40我白日受盡乾熱，黑夜受盡寒霜，不得合眼睡着，我常是這樣。
41And in this manner have I served thee in thy house twenty years, fourteen for thy daughters, and six for thy flocks: thou hast changed also my wages ten times.
41我這二十年在你家裏，為你的兩個女兒服事你十四年，為你的羊群服事你六年，你又十次改了我的工價。
42Unless the God of my father Abraham, and the fear of Isaac had stood by me, peradventure now thou hadst sent me away naked: God beheld my affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesterday.
42若不是我父親 以撒 所敬畏的上帝，就是 亞伯拉罕 的上帝與我同在，你如今必定打發我空手而去。上帝看見我的苦情和我的勞碌，就在昨夜責備你。」
43Laban answered him: The daughters are mine and the children, and thy flocks, and all things that thou seest are mine: what can I do to my children, and grandchildren?
43拉班 回答 雅各 說：「這女兒是我的女兒，這些孩子是我的孩子，這些羊群也是我的羊群；凡在你眼前的都是我的。我的女兒並她們所生的孩子，我今日能向他們做甚麼呢？
44Come therefore, let us enter into a league: that it may be for a testimony between me and thee.
44來吧！你我二人可以立約，作你我中間的證據。」
45And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a title:
45雅各 就拿一塊石頭立作柱子，
46And he said to his brethren: Bring hither stones. And they gathering stones together, made a heap, and they ate upon it.
46又對眾弟兄說：「你們堆聚石頭。」他們就拿石頭來堆成一堆，大家便在旁邊吃喝。
47And Laban called it The witness heap: and Jacob, The hillock of testimony: each of them according to the propriety of his language.
47拉班 稱那石堆為 伊迦爾‧撒哈杜他 ， 雅各 卻稱那石堆為 迦累得 。
48And Laban said: This heap shall be a witness between me and thee this day, and therefore the name thereof was called Galaad, that is, The witness heap.
48拉班 說：「今日這石堆作你我中間的證據。」因此這地方名叫 迦累得 ，
49The Lord behold and judge between us when we shall be gone one from the other.
49又叫 米斯巴 ，意思說：「我們彼此離別以後，願耶和華在你我中間鑒察。
50If thou afflict my daughters, and if thou bring in other wives over them: none is witness of our speech but God, who is present and beholdeth.
50你若苦待我的女兒，又在我的女兒以外另娶妻，雖沒有人知道，卻有上帝在你我中間作見證。」
51And he said again to Jacob: Behold, this heap, and the stone which I have set up between me and thee,
51拉班 又說：「你看我在你我中間所立的這石堆和柱子。
52Shall be a witness: this heap, I say, and the stone, be they for a testimony, if either I shall pass beyond it going towards thee, or thou shalt pass beyond it, thinking harm to me.
52這石堆作證據，這柱子也作證據。我必不過這石堆去害你；你也不可過這石堆和柱子來害我。
53The God of Abraham, and the God of Nachor, the God of their father, judge between us. And Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac.
53但願 亞伯拉罕 的上帝和 拿鶴 的上帝，就是他們父親的上帝，在你我中間判斷。」 雅各 就指着他父親 以撒 所敬畏的 上帝 起誓，
54And after he had offered sacrifices in the mountain, he called his brethren to eat bread. And when they had eaten, they lodged there:
54又在山上獻祭，請眾弟兄來吃飯。他們吃了飯，便在山上住宿。
55But Laban arose in the night, and kissed his sons, and daughters, and blessed them: and returned to his place.
55拉班 清早起來，與他外孫和女兒親嘴，給他們祝福，回往自己的地方去了。
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