創世記 28
1 依撒格叫了雅各伯來，祝福他，吩咐他說：「你不要娶客納罕女人為妻。
AND Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
2 你應起身往帕丹阿蘭你外祖父貝突耳家去，在那裏娶你舅父拉班的女兒為妻。
Arise, go to Padan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother’s father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother’s brother.
3 願全能的天主祝福你，使你生育繁殖，成為一大家族。
And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;
4 願天主將亞巴郎的祝福賜與你和你的後裔，使你承受你所住的地方，即天主賜與亞巴郎的土地作為產業。」
And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.
5 依撒格就這樣打發了雅各伯往帕丹阿蘭，投往阿蘭人貝突耳的兒子拉班，即雅各伯和厄撒烏的母親黎貝加的哥哥裏去了。
And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padan-aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.
6 厄撒烏見依撒烏祝福了雅各伯，打發他到帕丹阿蘭去，在那裏娶妻；祝福他時還吩咐他說：「不要娶客納罕女人為妻。」
When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padan-aram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;
7 厄撒烏見雅各伯聽從父母的命，往帕丹阿蘭去了，
And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan-aram;
8 便明白父親依撒格不喜歡客納罕女子。
And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;
9 所以他去了依市瑪耳那裏，除自己所有的兩個妻子外，又娶了亞巴郎之子依市瑪耳的女兒乃巴約特的妹妹瑪哈拉特為妻。
Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.
10 雅各伯離開貝爾舍巴，往哈蘭去了。
And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran.
11 他來到一個地方，因太陽已落，就在那裏過宿，隨地拿了一塊石頭，放在頭底下，就在那地方躺下睡了。
And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
12 他作了一夢：見一個梯子直立在地上，梯頂與天相接；天主的使者在梯子上，上去下來。
And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
13 上主立在梯上說：「我是上主，你父亞巴郎的天主，依撒格的天主。我要將你所躺的地方，賜給你和你的後裔。
And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;
14 你的後裔要多得如地上的灰塵；你要向東西南北擴展，地上的萬民都要因你和你的後裔蒙受祝福。
And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
15 看我與你同在；你不論到那裏，我必護佑你，領你回到此地。我決不離棄你，直到我實踐了我對你所許的。」
And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
16 雅各伯一覺醒來，說：「上主實在在這地方，我竟不知道。」
And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not.
17 他又滿懷敬畏地說：「這地方多麼可畏! 這裏不是別處，乃是天主的住所，上天之門。」
And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.
18 雅各伯清早一起來，就把那塊放在頭底下的石頭，立作石柱，在頂上倒了油，
And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
19 給那地方起名叫貝特耳，原先那城名叫路次。
And he called the name of that place Beth-el: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.
20 然後雅各伯許願說：「若是天主與我同在，在我所走的路上護佑我，賜我豐衣足食，
And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
21 使我平安回到父家，上主實在當是我的天主。
So that I come again to my father’s house in peace; then shall the Lord be my God:
22 我立作石柱的這塊石頭，必要成為天主的住所；凡你賜與我的，我必給你奉獻十分之一。」
And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God’s house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
