創世記 27
1 依撒格年紀已老，雙目失明，看不見了，遂叫了他的大兒厄撒烏來，對他說：「我兒! 」他回答說：「我在這裏。」
Isaac was old and going blind. He called for Esau, his oldest son, and said, “My son.” “I'm here,” Esau replied.
2 他說：「你看，我已年老，不知道那天就死。
“I'm old now,” said Isaac, “I may die soon, who knows?
3 現在你拿器械、箭囊和弓，往田間去打點獵物，
So please take your bow and arrows and go hunting in the countryside for some meat for me.
4 照我的嗜好給我作成美味，拿來給我吃，好叫我在未死以前祝福你。」
Make me that tasty food that I love and bring it to me to eat, so I can bless you before I die.”
5 依撒格對他的兒子厄撒烏說這話時，黎貝加聽見了。厄撒烏就到田間去給父親打獵，
Rebekah heard what Isaac told his son Esau. So when Esau left to go hunting in the countryside for wild game,
6 黎貝加對自己的兒子雅各伯說：「我聽見你父親對你哥哥厄撒烏說：
Rebekah told her son Jacob, “Listen! I heard your father tell your brother,
7 你去給我打點獵物來，作成美味，叫我吃了，好在死前當著上主的面祝福你。」
‘Get me some wild game and make me some tasty food so I can eat it and then bless you in the presence of the Lord before I die.’
8 現在，我兒，要聽從我吩咐你的話。
Now then, my son, listen to me and do exactly what I tell you.
9 到羊群裏去，給我拿兩隻肥美的小山羊來，我要照你父親的嗜好，給他作成美味，
Go to the flock and bring me two nice young goats. I'll cook them and make the tasty food your father loves.
10 你端給父親吃，好叫他死前祝福你。」
Then you take it to your father to eat, so he can bless you in the presence of the Lord before he dies.”
11 雅各伯對母親黎貝加說：「但是我哥哥渾身是毛，我卻皮膚光滑，
“But listen,” Jacob replied to his mother Rebekah, “my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I'm a smooth man.
12 萬一我父親摸我，必以為我哄騙他，我必招來咒罵，而不是祝福。」
Maybe my father will notice when he touches me. Then it will look like I'm deceiving him and I'll bring a curse down on myself instead of a blessing.”
13 母親對他說：「我兒，咒罵歸於我，你只管聽我的話，去給我拿來。」
“Let the curse fall on me, my son,” his mother replied. “Just do what I tell you. Go and get the young goats for me.”
14 他遂拿了來，交給了他的母親，他母親就照他父親的嗜好作成了美味。
So Jacob went and got them and took them to his mother, and she made some tasty food, the way his father loved.
15 黎貝加又將家中所存的大兒厄撒烏最好的衣服，給她小兒雅各伯穿上；
Then Rebekah went and got her older son Esau's best clothes that she had at home and put them on Jacob her younger son.
16 又用小山羊的皮，包在他的手上和他光滑的頸上，
She put the goatskins on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.
17 然後將自己作好的美味和餅，放在他兒子雅各伯的手裏。
Then she handed her son Jacob the tasty food and the bread she'd made.
18 雅各伯來到他父親前說：「我父! 」他答說：「我在這裏! 我兒，你是誰﹖」
He went in to see his father, and called out, “My father, I'm here.” “Which son are you?” Isaac asked.
19 雅各伯對父親說：「我是你長子厄撒烏。我已照你吩咐的作了。請坐起來，吃我作的野味，好祝福我。」
“It's me Esau, your firstborn son,” Jacob told his father. “I did what you told me. So please sit up and eat some of my wild game meat so you can bless me.”
20 依撒格對他兒子說：「我兒! 你怎麼這樣快就找著了﹖」雅各伯答說：「因為上主你的天主使我碰得好。」
“How did you find an animal so fast, my son?” Isaac asked. “Because the Lord your God sent it my way,” Jacob replied.
21 依撒格對雅各伯說：「我兒! 你前來，讓我摸摸，看你是不是我兒厄撒烏﹖」
“Come over here so I can touch you, my son,” Isaac told Jacob, “so I can tell if you're really my son Esau or not.”
22 雅各伯就走近他父親依撒格前；依撒格摸著他說：「聲音是雅各伯的聲音，手卻是厄撒烏的手。」
Jacob went over to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “It's Jacob's voice but Esau's hands.”
23 依撒格沒有分辨出來，因為他的手，像他哥哥厄撒烏的手一樣有毛，就祝福了他。
Isaac didn't realize it was really Jacob because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau's, so Isaac got ready to bless him.
24 隨後說：「你真是我兒厄撒烏嗎﹖」雅各伯答說：「我是。」
“It's really you, my son Esau?” he asked again. “Yes, it's me,” Jacob replied.
25 依撒格說：「我兒! 遞給我，叫我吃了你作的野味，好祝福你。」雅各伯於是遞過去，他吃了；又給他拿了酒來，他也喝了。
Then he said, “My son, bring me some of your wild game to eat, so that I may give you my blessing.” Jacob brought some for him to eat, as well as some wine for him to drink.
26 他父親依撒烏就對他說：「我兒! 你前來吻我。」
Afterwards he said to Isaac, “Come here and kiss me, my son.”
27 他就前去吻了父親。他父親一聞到他衣服上的香氣，就祝福他說：「看! 我兒子的香氣，像上主祝福的肥田的香氣。
So Jacob went over and kissed him, and Isaac could smell the clothes Jacob was wearing. So he went ahead with the blessing, saying to himself, “See—the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the Lord has blessed.”
28 惟願天主賜與你天上的甘露，土地的肥沃，五穀美酒的豐裕!
“May God use the dew of heaven and fertile land to give you rich harvests of grain and new wine!
29 願眾民福事你，萬國叩拜你! 願你作你兄弟的主人，你母親的兒子叩拜你! 凡詛咒你的，必受詛咒；凡祝福你的，必受祝福。」
May the people of different nations serve you and bow down to you. May you rule over your relatives, and may they bow down to you. May everyone who curses you be cursed, and may everyone who bless you be blessed.”
30 依撒格一祝福了雅各伯，雅各伯剛由他父親依撒格面前出來，他哥哥厄撒烏打獵回來了。
After Isaac finished blessing Jacob—in fact Jacob had just left his father—Esau returned from his hunting trip.
31 他也作了美味，給他父親端來，對他父親說：「我父! 請起來吃，你兒預備的野味，好祝福我。」
He had also made some tasty food, and took it to his father. Esau said to Isaac, “Sit up, my father, and eat some of my wild game so you can bless me.”
32 他父親依撒格對他說：「你是誰﹖」他答說：「我是你兒，你長子厄撒烏。」
“Who are you?” Isaac asked him. “I'm your son, your firstborn son, Esau,” he replied.
33 依撒格不禁戰慄起來，驚問說：「那麼，是誰打了獵物給我送了來﹖並且在你未來以前，我已吃了，已祝福了他；他從此必蒙祝福。」
Isaac started to shake all over and asked, “So who was it who went hunting game and then brought it to me? I ate it all before you came back and I blessed him. His blessing will remain.”
34 厄撒烏一聽見他父親說出這話，就放聲哀號，對他父親說：「我父，請你也祝福我! 」
When Esau heard his father's words, he cried out in great anger and bitterness, and pleaded with his father, “Please bless me too, my father!”
35 父親答說：「你弟弟用詭計來奪去了你的祝福。」
But Isaac replied, “You brother came and deceived me—he stole your blessing!”
36 厄撒烏說：「他不是名叫雅各伯嗎﹖他已兩次欺騙了我：以前奪去了我長子的名分，現在又奪去了我的祝福。」繼而問說：「你沒有給我留下祝福嗎﹖」
“Isn't he well named—Jacob the deceiver!” said Esau. “He's deceived me twice. First he took my birthright, and now he's stolen my blessing! Haven't you kept a blessing for me?”
37 依撒格回答厄撒烏說：「看，我已立他作你的主人，將所有的兄弟都給他作僕人，將五穀美酒都供給他了。我兒，我還能為你作什麼﹖」
Isaac replied to Esau. “I have made him ruler over you, and have said that all his relatives will be his servants. I have declared that he will be well supplied with grain and new wine. So what is left that I can do for you, my son?”
38 厄撒烏對父親說：「我父，你只有一個祝福嗎﹖我父，你也得祝福我。」厄撒烏就放聲大哭。
“Do you only have one blessing, my father?” Esau asked. “Please bless me too!” Then Esau began to cry very loudly.
39 他父親依撒格回答他說：「看，你住的地方必缺乏肥沃的土地，天上的甘露。
Then his father Isaac declared, “Listen! You will live far away from fertile land, far from the dew of heaven that falls from above.
40 你要憑仗刀劍生活，要服事你的弟弟；但你一強盛起來，將由你的頸上擺脫他的束縛。」
You will make a living by using your sword, and you will be your brother's servant. But when you rebel, you will throw off his yoke from your neck.”
41 厄撒烏因為他父親祝福了雅各伯，便懷恨雅各伯，心下思念說「為父親居喪的日期已近，到時我必要殺死我弟弟雅各伯。」
From then on Esau hated Jacob because of his father's blessing. Esau said to himself, “Soon the time will come when I'll mourn my father's death. Then I'll kill my brother Jacob!”
42 有人告訴了黎貝加他大兒子厄撒烏所說的話；她便派人叫了她小兒雅各伯來，對他說：「看，你哥哥厄撒烏想要殺你洩恨。
However, Rebekah found out what Esau was saying, so she sent for Jacob. “Look,” she told him, “your brother Esau is making himself feel better by making plans to kill you.
43 現在，我兒! 你得聽我的話，起身逃往哈蘭我哥哥拉班那裏去，
So, my son, listen carefully to what I tell you. Leave immediately and go to my brother Laban in Haram.
44 與他住些時日，直到你哥哥忿怒消失了。
Stay with him for a while until your brother's anger cools down.
45 幾時你哥哥對你息了怒，忘了你對他作的事，我就派人去，從那裏接你回來。為什麼我在一日內要喪失你們兩個人呢﹖」
Once he's cooled down and forgets what you did to him, I'll send for you to come back. Why should I lose both of you in a single day?”
46 黎貝加就對依撒格說：「為了這兩個赫特女人，我厭惡得要死；假使雅各伯也從這地的女人中娶一個像這樣的赫特女人為妻，我還活著做什麼﹖」
Then Rebekah went and told Isaac, “I'm so sick of these Hittite women—they're ruining my life! If Jacob also marries a Hittite woman like them, one of the local people, I'd rather die!”
