創世記 32
1 雅各伯也上道前行，遇見了天主的使者。
And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
2 雅各伯一見他們就說：「這是天主的營地。」遂給那地方起名叫瑪哈納因。
And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God’s host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
3 雅各伯先派使者，往厄東鄉間色依爾地方，他哥哥厄撒烏那裏去，
And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother to the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
4 吩咐他們說：「你們應對我主厄撒烏這樣說：你的僕人雅各伯這樣說：我在拉班那裏作客，一直到現在。
And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak to my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there till now:
5 我擁有牛、驢、羊和僕婢，現在打發人報告我主，希望得你的恩愛。」
And I have oxen, and donkeys, flocks, and male and female servants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight.
6 使主回來見雅各伯說：「我們到了你哥哥厄撒烏那裏，他正前來迎接你；同他來的尚有四百人。」
And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he is coming to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.
7 雅各伯大為震驚，很是憂慮，遂將自己的人和羊群牛群及駱駝分作兩隊，
Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks, and herds, and camels, into two bands;
8 心想如果厄撒烏前來攻擊一隊，剩下的另一隊還可逃跑。
And said, If Esau shall come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.
9 然後雅各伯祈求說：「我父亞巴郎的天主，我父依撒格的天主、上主! 你曾對我說：回到你本鄉，你本家去，我必使你順利。
And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD who saidst to me, Return to thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:
10 我本不配獲得你向你僕人所施的種種慈恩和忠信，我只帶了一條棍杖過了這約但河，現在我卻擁有兩隊人馬。
I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shown to thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.
11 求你救我脫離我哥哥厄撒烏的手，因為我怕他來擊殺我，擊殺母親和孩子。
Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.
12 你原來說過：我必要恩待你，使你的後代如海沙，多得不可勝數。」
And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
13 那夜雅各伯就在那裏過夜。然後，就由他所有的財物中選出一些來，送給他哥哥厄撒烏作禮物：
And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;
14 計有母山羊二百隻，公山羊二十隻，母綿羊二百隻，公綿羊二十隻，
Two hundred female goats, and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,
15 哺乳的母駱駝同駝駒三十頭，母牛四十頭，公牛十頭，母驢二十匹，公驢十匹。
Thirty milk camels with their colts, forty cows, and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys, and ten foals.
16 他將這些分成一隊一隊的交給自己的僕人，對他們說：「你們應走在我前面，每隊之間應隔開些。」
And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said to his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space between drove and drove.
17 然後吩咐第一隊說：「幾時我哥哥厄撒烏遇見你，問你說：你是誰家的﹖你往那裏去﹖你前面這些牲畜是誰的﹖
And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and where goest thou? and whose are these before thee?
18 你要答說：是你僕人雅各伯的，是送給我主厄撒烏的禮物。看，他自己就在我們後面。」
Then thou shalt say, They are thy servant Jacob’s; it is a present sent to my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us.
19 他也吩咐了第二第三隊，和跟在每隊後面的人說：「你們若遇見厄撒烏，都要照這話回答他。
And so he commanded the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, In this manner shall ye speak to Esau, when ye find him.
20 並且還要說：看，你的僕人雅各伯就在我們後面。」因為他心裏想：如果我先送禮向他討好，然後才與他見面，也許他會歡迎我。」
And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; perhaps he will accept of me.
21 於是禮物先他而行，他自己當夜仍留在營內。
So the present went over before him: and he himself lodged that night in the company.
22 他當夜起來，帶了他的兩個妻子，兩個婢女和十一個孩子，由淺處過了雅波克河。
And he arose that night, and took his two wives, and his two female servants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.
23 等他們過了河，也叫自己所有的過了河，
And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that which he had.
24 雅各伯獨自一人留在後面。有一人前來與他搏鬥一直到曙光破曉。
And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
25 那人見自己不能制勝，就在他的大腿窩上打了一下；雅各伯正在與他搏鬥之際，大腿窩脫了節。
And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.
26 那人說：「讓我走罷! 天已破曉。」雅各伯說：「你如果不祝福我，我不讓你走。」
And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
27 那人問他說：「你叫什麼名字﹖」他答說：「雅各伯。」
And he said to him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.
28 那人說：「你的名字以後不再叫雅各伯，應叫以色列，因為你與神與人搏鬥，佔了優勢。」
And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
29 雅各伯問說：「請你告訴我你的名字。」那人答說：「為什麼你要問我的名字﹖」遂在那裏祝福了他。
And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, why is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
30 雅各伯給那地方起名叫「培尼耳，」意謂「我面對面見了神，我的生命仍得保全。」
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
31 雅各伯經過培尼耳時，太陽已升起照在身上，由於大腿脫了節，他一走一瘸。
And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he limped upon his thigh.
32 為此，以色列子民至今不吃大腿窩上的筋，因為那人打了雅各伯的大腿窩，正打在筋上。
Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, to this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh in the sinew that shrank.
