創世記 31
1 雅各伯聽見拉班的兒子們談論說：「雅各伯奪去了我們父親所有的一切，利用我們父親的財物，才獲得了這一切的財富。」
And Jacob heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying, Jacob has taken all that was our father's, and of our father's property has he gotten all this glory.
2 雅各伯也注意了拉班對自己的臉色不如先前。
And Jacob saw the countenance of Laban, and behold it was not towards him as before.
3 那時，上主對雅各伯說：「你回到你的家鄉和你的出生地，我必與你同在。」
And the Lord said to Jacob, Return to the land of your father, and to your family, and I will be with you.
4 雅各伯就派人叫辣黑耳和肋阿來到放羊的田間，
And Jacob sent and called Lea and Rachel to the plain where the flocks were.
5 對她們說：「我看你們父親的臉色，對我已不如先前；但是我父親的天主卻與我同在。
And he said to them, I see the face of your father, that it is not towards me as before, but the God of my father was with me.
6 你們清楚知道，我是全力服事了你們的父親；
And you too know that with all my might I have served your father.
7 你們的父親卻欺騙了我，十次變換了我的工價，但天住卻沒有容許他害我。
But your father deceived me, and changed my wages for the ten lambs, yet God gave him not [power] to hurt me.
8 當他說：有斑點的算是你的工價；全羊群就都生下有斑點的；當他說：有條紋的算是你的工價，全羊群就都生下有條紋的。
If he should say thus, The speckled shall be your reward, then all the cattle would bear speckled; and if he should say, The white shall be your reward, then would all the cattle bear white.
9 天主這樣將你們父親的牲畜奪來了給我。
So God has taken away all the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
10 有一次當羊群配合時，我於夢中舉目觀望：看見跳在母羊身上的公山羊，都是有條紋，有斑點和雜色的。
And it came to pass when the cattle conceived and were with young, that I saw with mine eyes in sleep, and behold the he-goats and the rams leaping on the sheep and the she-goats, speckled and variegated and spotted with ash-coloured spots.
11 天主的使者在夢中對我說：雅各伯! 我答說：我在這裏。
And the angel of God said to me in a dream, Jacob; and I said, What is it?
12 他說：你舉目觀望：跳在母羊身上的公山羊，都是有條紋，有斑點和雜色的，因為我看到了拉班對你所作的一切。
And he said, Look up with your eyes, and behold the he-goats and the rams leaping on the sheep and the she-goats, speckled and variegated and spotted with ash-coloured spots; for I have seen all things that Laban does to you.
13 我是貝特耳的天主，你曾在那裏用油敷了一座石柱，並對我許了願。現在你起身，離開這地方，回到你生身之地去。」
I am God that appeared to you in the place of God where you anointed a pillar to me, and vowed to me there a vow; now then arise and depart out of this land, depart into the land of your nativity, and I will be with you.
14 辣黑耳和肋阿回答他說：「我們在父親家裏還有產業可分嗎﹖
And Rachel and Lea answered and said to him, Have we yet a part or inheritance in the house of our father?
15 他豈不是把我們視作外人，把我們出賣了，吞併了我們的身價﹖
Are we not considered strangers by him? for he has sold us, and quite devoured our money.
16 所以天主由我們父親奪來的那一切財物，都應屬於我們和我們子女。現今凡天主吩咐你的，你都該照辦。
All the wealth and the glory which God has taken from our father, it shall be our's and our children's; now then do whatever God has said to you.
17 雅各伯遂立即叫自己的兒女和妻子騎上駱駝，
And Jacob arose and took his wives and his children up on the camels;
18 帶了自己一切牲畜和積聚的一切財物，即他在帕丹阿蘭所得的一切牲畜，起程往客納罕地，他父親依撒格那裏去了。
and he took away all his possessions and all his store, which he had gotten in Mesopotamia, and all that belonged to him, to depart to Isaac his father in the land of Chanaan.
19 其時拉班正剪羊毛去了，辣黑耳就偷走了她父親的神像。
And Laban went to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole her father's images.
20 雅各伯隱瞞了阿蘭人拉班，沒有告訴拉班他將逃走，
And Jacob hid [the matter from] Laban the Syrian, so as not to tell him that he ran away.
21 遂帶了自己所有的一切逃走了，起身過了幼發拉的河，直向基肋阿得山地進發。
And he departed himself and all that belonged to him, and passed over the river, and went into the mountain Galaad.
22 第三天拉班得報雅各伯偷跑了，
But it was told Laban the Syrian on the third day, that Jacob was fled.
23 遂帶了自己的弟兄，在他後面一連追趕了七天的路程，在基肋阿得山地追上了他。
And having taken his brethren with him, he pursued after him seven days' journey, and overtook him on Mount Galaad.
24 天主在夜間夢中顯現給阿蘭人拉班，對他說：「你小心，不要對雅各伯說好說壞。」
And God came to Laban the Syrian in sleep by night, and said to him, Take heed to yourself that you speak not at any time to Jacob evil things.
25 拉班追上雅各伯時，雅各伯已在山上搭了帳幕；拉班和他的弟兄也在基肋阿得山地搭了帳幕。
And Laban overtook Jacob; and Jacob pitched his tent in the mountain; and Laban stationed his brothers in the mount Galaad.
26 拉班對雅各伯說：「你作的是什麼事﹖竟瞞著我，將我的女兒們帶走，有如戰俘一樣!
And Laban said to Jacob, What have you done? therefore did you run away secretly, and pillage me, and lead away my daughters as captives taken with the sword?
27 你為什麼暗中偷跑，瞞著我而不通知我，叫我好能快樂的唱著歌，打著鼓，彈著琴歡送你回去﹖
Whereas if you had told me, I would have sent you away with mirth, and with songs, and timbrels, and harp.
28 連我的兒女你都不讓我與他們吻別，你作的實在糊塗!
And I was not counted worthy to embrace my children and my daughters; now then you have wrought foolishly.
29 我本可伸手加害你們，但是你們父親的天主昨夜對我說：小心，不要對雅各伯說好說壞。
And now my hand has power to hurt you; but the God of your father spoke to me yesterday, saying, Take heed to yourself that you speak not evil words to Jacob.
30 你現在切望回到父家，定要回去，但是你為什麼偷走了我的神像! 」
Now then go on your way, for you have earnestly desired to depart to the house of your father; therefore have you stolen my gods?
31 雅各伯回答拉班說：「我害怕，我還以為你要由我手中奪去你的女兒。
And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid; for I said, Lest at any time you should take away your daughters from me, and all my possessions.
32 至於你的神像，你在誰那裏搜出來，決不容他活著；當著我們弟兄的面，你如認出我這裏有什麼是屬於你的，儘管拿去。」雅各伯原不知道是辣黑耳偷了神像。
And Jacob said, With whoever you shall find your gods, he shall not live in the presence of our brethren; take notice of what I have of your property, and take it; and he observed nothing with him, but Jacob knew not that his wife Rachel had stolen them.
33 拉班便進入雅各伯的帳幕，肋阿的帳幕和兩個婢女的帳幕，沒有找著；遂由肋阿的帳幕出來，進入辣黑耳的帳幕，
And Laban went in and searched in the house of Lea, and found [them] not; and he went out of the house of Lea, and searched in the house of Jacob, and in the house of the two maidservants, and found them not; and he went also into the house of Rachel.
34 辣黑耳卻拿了神像，放在駱駝的鞍下，自己坐在上面。拉班搜遍了整個帳幕，沒有找著。
And Rachel took the idols, and cast them amongst the camel's packs, and sat upon them.
35 辣黑耳對她父親說：「望我主不要見怪，我不能在你面前起迎，因為我正在經期。」他搜索了，卻沒有找著神像。
And she said to her father, Be not indignant, Sir; I can’t rise up before you, for it is with me according to the manner of women. Laban searched in all the house, and found not the images.
36 雅各伯於是動怒，與拉班爭論，質問他說：「我有什麼不對，有什麼罪過，致使你在我後面追趕﹖
And Jacob was angry, and strove with Laban; and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my injustice, and what my sin, that you have pursued after me,
37 你搜遍了我的東西，如找出了什麼東西是屬於你家的，擺在我和你的兄弟面前，叫他們在我們兩人間行裁判。
and that you have searched all the furniture of my house? what have you found of all the furniture of your house? set it here between your relations and my relations, and let them decide between us two.
38 這二十年來，我同你在一起，你的母綿羊和母山羊從未流產；你羊群中的公羊，我從未吃過；
These twenty years have I been with you; your sheep, and your she-goats have not failed in bearing; I devoured not the rams of your cattle.
39 被野獸撕裂的我從未給你帶回，我自己賠償了損失；不論是白天偷去的，或是黑夜偷去的，你都向我索取。
That which was taken of beasts I brought not to you; I made good of myself the thefts of the day, and the thefts of the night.
40 日間我受盡炎熱，夜間受盡嚴寒，兩眼無法入睡。在你家內這二十年，為了你的兩個女兒，我服事了你十四年；
I was parched with heat by day, and [chilled] with frost by night, and my sleep departed from my eyes.
41 另六年是為了你的羊群，這期間你竟十次變更了我的工價。
These twenty years have I been in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years amongst your sheep, and you did falsely rate my wages for ten lambs.
42 假若我父的天主，亞巴郎的天主，依撒格所敬畏的上主，不同我在一起，你現在定會打發我空手回去；但是天主見到了我的苦況和我的辛苦，在昨夜就下了判決。」
Unless I had the God of my father Abraam, and the fear of Isaac, now you would have sent me away empty; God saw my humiliation, and the labour of my hands, and rebuked you yesterday.
43 拉班回答雅各伯說：「女兒是我的女兒，孩子是我的孩子，羊群是我的羊群，你眼見的這一切都是我的。但是對我的女兒，對她們生的孩子，我今天能作什麼呢﹖
And Laban answered and said to Jacob, The daughters are my daughters, and the sons my sons, and the cattle are my cattle, and all things which you see are mine, and [the property] of my daughters; what shall I do to them today, or their children which they bore?
44 現在，來，讓我們在你我之間立約，作你我之間的證據。」
Now then come, let me make a covenant, both I and you, and it shall be for a witness between me and you; and he said to him, Behold, there is no one with us; behold, God is witness between me and you.
45 雅各伯遂拿了一塊石頭，立作石柱，
And Jacob having taken a stone, set it up for a pillar.
46 然後對自己的親戚說：「你們堆集石頭。」他們便拿了石頭，堆成一堆，就在那堆石頭上吃了飯。
And Jacob said to his brethren, Gather stones; and they gathered stones and made a heap, and ate there upon the heap; and Laban said to him, This heap witnesses between me and you today.
47 拉班稱那石堆為「耶加爾、撒哈杜達；」雅各伯稱為「基肋阿得」
And Laban called it, the Heap of Testimony; and Jacob called it, the Witness Heap.
48 拉班說：「今天這堆石頭在你和我之間作見證。」為此給它起名叫「基肋阿得。」
And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and the pillar, which I have set between me and you; this heap witnesses, and this pillar witnesses; therefore its name was called, the Heap witnesses.
49 又叫作「米茲帕，」因為他說：「我們彼此分離後，願上主監視我和你：
And the vision of which he said—Let God look to it between me and you, because we are about to depart from each other, —
50 如果你虐待我的女兒，或在我的女兒外，另娶妻室，雖無人在我們中間，但有天主在你我之間作證。」
If you shall humble my daughters, if you should take wives in addition to my daughters, see, there is no one with us looking on. God [is] witness between me and you.
51 拉班又對雅各伯說：「看這堆石頭，看我在你我之間所立的石柱：
And Laban said to Jacob, Behold, this heap, and this pillar are a witness.
52 這堆石頭是見證，這石柱是見證，我決不越過這堆石頭去妨害你，你也不要越過這堆石頭和這石柱來妨害我。
For if I should not cross over to you, neither should you cross over to me, for mischief beyond this heap and this pillar.
53 但願亞巴郎的天主和納曷爾的天主，－－即他們父親的天主，－－在我們之間行裁判! 」雅各伯就指自己的父親依撒格所敬畏的上主起了誓。
The God of Abraam and the God of Nachor judge between us; and Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.
54 然後雅各伯在山上宰牲獻祭，叫了自己的親戚來吃飯；吃飯以後就在山上過了夜。
And he offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his brethren, and they ate and drank, and slept in the mountain.
55 拉班清早起來，與自己的外孫和女兒吻別，祝福了他們，便起身回本鄉去了。
And Laban rose up in the morning, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them; and Laban having turned back, departed to his place.
