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 he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob has taken away all that was our father's, and of what was our father's he has acquired 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 toward him as previously.
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 Jehovah said to Jacob, Return into the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.
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 Rachel and Leah to the fields to his flock,
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 said to them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as previously; but the God of my father has been with me.
6 你們清楚知道，我是全力服事了你們的父親；
And you know that with all my power 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。
And your father has mocked me, and has changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not 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 said thus; The speckled shall be thy hire, then all the flocks bore speckled; and if he said thus: The ringstraked shall be thy hire, then all the flocks bore ringstraked.
9 天主這樣將你們父親的牲畜奪來了給我。
And God has taken away 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 at the time of the ardour of the flocks, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the rams that leaped upon the flocks were ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
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, Here am I.
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, Lift up now thine eyes, and see: all the rams that leap upon the flock are ringstraked, speckled, and spotted; for I have seen all that Laban does to thee.
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 the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, where thou vowedst a vow to me. Now arise, depart out of this land, and return to the land of thy kindred.
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 Leah answered and said to him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
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 reckoned of him strangers? for he has sold us, and has even constantly 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。
For all the wealth that God has taken from our father is ours and our children's; and now whatever God has said to thee do.
17 雅各伯遂立即叫自己的兒女和妻子騎上駱駝，
And Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon 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 carried away all his cattle, and all his property that he had acquired — the cattle of his possessions that he had acquired in Padan-Aram, to go to Isaac his father, into the land of Canaan.
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 had gone to shear his sheep. And Rachel stole the teraphim that [belonged] to her father.
20 雅各伯隱瞞了阿蘭人拉班，沒有告訴拉班他將逃走，
And Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he did not tell him that he fled.
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 fled with all that he had; and he rose up and passed over the river, and set his face [toward] mount Gilead.
22 第三天拉班得報雅各伯偷跑了，
And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob had 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 he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey, and overtook him on mount Gilead.
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 a dream by night, and said to him, Take care thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
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 came up with Jacob; and Jacob had pitched his tent on the mountain; Laban also with his brethren pitched on mount Gilead.
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 hast thou done, that thou hast deceived me, and hast carried away my daughters as captives of war?
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﹖
Why didst thou flee away covertly, and steal away from me, and didst not tell me, that I might have conducted thee with mirth and with songs, with tambour and with 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 hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now thou hast acted 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。
It would be in the power of my hand to do you hurt; but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, Take care that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
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! 」
And now that thou must needs be gone, because thou greatly longedst after thy father's house, why hast thou 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, I was afraid; for I said, Lest thou shouldest take by force thy daughters from me.
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。
With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, he shall not live. Before our brethren discern what is thine with me, and take [it] to thee. But Jacob did not know that 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 into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the two handmaids' tents, and found nothing; and he went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.
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。
Now Rachel had taken the teraphim and put them under the camel's saddle; and she sat upon them. And Laban explored all the tent, but found nothing.
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, Let it not be an occasion of anger in the eyes of my lord that I cannot rise up before thee, for it is with me after the manner of women. And he searched carefully, but did not find the teraphim.
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 he disputed with Laban. And Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my fault, what my sin, that thou hast so hotly 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。
Whereas thou hast explored all my baggage, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? Set [it] here before my brethren and thy brethren, and let them decide between us both.
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 thee: thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock I have not eaten.
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。
What was torn I have not brought to thee; I had to bear the loss of it: of my hand hast thou required it, [whether] stolen by day or stolen by 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；
Thus it was with me: in the day the heat consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine 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。
I have been these twenty years in thy house: I have served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock; and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
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。」
Had not the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, been with me, it is certain thou wouldest have sent me away now empty. God has looked upon my affliction and the labour of my hands, and has judged last night.
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 are my sons, and the flock is my flock, and all that thou seest is mine; but as for my daughters, what can I do this day to them, or to their sons whom they have brought forth?
44 現在，來，讓我們在你我之間立約，作你我之間的證據。」
And now, come, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be a witness between me and thee.
45 雅各伯遂拿了一塊石頭，立作石柱，
And Jacob took a stone, and 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 took stones, and made a heap, and ate there upon the heap.
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 Jegar-sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.
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, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed,
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 Mizpah; for he said, Let Jehovah watch between me and thee, when we shall be hidden one from another:
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 thou shouldest afflict my daughters, or if thou shouldest take wives besides my daughters, — no man is with us; see, God is witness between me and thee!
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 behold the pillar which I have set up between me and thee:
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。
[let] this heap be witness, and the pillar a witness, that neither I pass this heap [to go] to thee, nor thou pass this heap and this pillar [to come] to me, for harm.
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 Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, 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 Jacob offered a sacrifice upon the mountain, and invited his brethren to eat bread: and they ate bread, and lodged on 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 early in the morning, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them; and Laban went and returned to his place.
