Genesis 31
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1Jacob heard Laban’s sons’ words, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. He has obtained all this wealth from that which was our father’s.”
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。」
2Jacob saw the expression on Laban’s face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.
2雅各 見 拉班 的氣色向他不如從前了。
3The LORD said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”
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。」
4Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,
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 the expression on your father’s face, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father has 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。
6You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.
6你們也知道，我盡了我的力量服事你們的父親。
7Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow 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 he said, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore speckled. If he said, ‘The streaked will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore streaked.
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。
9Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock, and given them to me.
9這樣，上帝把你們父親的牲畜奪來賜給我了。
10During mating season, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leaped on the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled.
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。
11The angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘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。』
12He said, ‘Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you.
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 you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth.’”
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！』」
14Rachel and Leah answered him, “Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in 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？
15Aren’t we considered as foreigners by him? For he has sold us, and has also used up our money.
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。
16For all the riches which God has taken away from our father are ours and our children’s. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do.”
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 set his sons and his wives on the camels,
17雅各 起來，使他的兒子和妻子都騎上駱駝，
18and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.
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。
19Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s.
19當時 拉班 剪羊毛去了， 拉結 偷了他父親家中的神像。
20Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn’t tell him that he was running away.
20雅各 背着 亞蘭 人 拉班 偷走了，並不告訴他，
21So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.
21就帶着所有的逃跑。他起身過大河，面向 基列山 行去。
22Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled.
22到第三日，有人告訴 拉班 ， 雅各 逃跑了。
23He took his relatives with him, and pursued him seven days’ journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.
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。
24God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.”
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。」
25Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead.
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。
26Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of 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 did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn’t tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;
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？
28and didn’t allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now you have done foolishly.
28又不容我與外孫和女兒親嘴？你所行的真是愚昧！
29It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.’
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。』
30Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father’s house, but why have you stolen 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 Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I said, ‘Lest you should take your daughters from me 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。
32Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it.” For Jacob didn’t know that Rachel had stolen them.
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。
33Laban went into Jacob’s tent, into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn’t find them. He went out of Leah’s tent, and 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。
34Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt around all the tent, but didn’t find them.
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 to her father, “Don’t let my lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for I’m having my period.” He searched, but didn’t find the teraphim.
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。
36Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, “What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have 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？
37Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between us two.
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。
38“These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven’t eaten the rams of your flocks.
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；
39That which was torn of animals, I didn’t bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.
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。
40This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled 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。
41These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed 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, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.”
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 Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine! What can I do today to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?
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？
44Now come, let’s make a covenant, you and I. Let it be for a witness between me and you.”
44來吧！你我二人可以立約，作你我中間的證據。」
45Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
45雅各 就拿一塊石頭立作柱子，
46Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.
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。
47Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.
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 。
48Laban said, “This heap is witness between me and you today.” Therefore it was named Galeed
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 ，
49and Mizpah, for he said, “The LORD watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.
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 you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives in addition to my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you.”
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。」
51Laban said to Jacob, “See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you.
51拉班 又說：「你看我在你我中間所立的這石堆和柱子。
52May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.
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 Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” Then 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，
54Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night in the mountain.
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。
55Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed 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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