創世記 35

1 天主對雅各伯說：「起來，上貝特耳去，住在那裏，為你昔日逃避你哥哥厄撒烏在那裏顯現給你的天主，築一祭壇。」

Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”

2 雅各伯便對家人和跟隨他的人說：「你們應除去你們中間所有外邦的神像，並取潔，更換衣服，

So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.

3 因為我門要起身上貝特耳去；在那裏我要給在我困苦的時日俯聽了我，在我所走的路上伴隨了我的天主，築一祭壇。」

Then let us arise and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to God, who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me wherever I have gone.”

4 眾人便將自己手中所有外邦的神像，所有的耳環，都交給了雅各伯；雅各伯就都埋在那靠近舍根的橡樹底下。

So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.

5 當他們起程出發時，天主叫周圍的城邑都非常恐怖，為此誰也不敢追趕雅各伯的兒子。

As they set out, a terror from God fell over the surrounding cities, so that they did not pursue Jacob’s sons.

6 這樣，雅各伯和與他在一起的人，來到客納罕地的路次，即貝特耳；

So Jacob and everyone with him arrived in Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.

7 他在那裏築了一座祭壇。稱呼那地方為貝特耳，因為他逃避他哥哥時，天主曾在那裏顯現給他。

There Jacob built an altar, and he called that place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed Himself to Jacob as he fled from his brother.

8 其時黎貝加的乳母德波辣死了，就埋在貝加的下面的一株橡樹底下；為此給這橡樹起名叫「悲泣的橡樹。」

Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel. So Jacob named it Allon-bachuth.

9 雅各伯由帕丹阿蘭回來後，天主又顯現給他，再祝福。

After Jacob had returned from Paddan-aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.

10 他天主對他說：「你原叫雅各伯，但以後不再叫作雅各伯，卻要叫作以色列。」遂給他改名以色列。

And God said to him, “Though your name is Jacob, you will no longer be called Jacob. Instead, your name will be Israel.” So God named him Israel.

11 天主又對他說：「我是全能的天主，你要生育繁殖；不但一個民族，而是一些民族要由你而生，許多君王要由你而生。

And God told him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation—even a company of nations—shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you.

12 我將賜給了亞巴郎和依撒格的土地賜給你；我也將這土地賜給你未來的後裔。」

The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.”

13 然後天主就在與他談話的地方，離開他，上升去了。

Then God went up from the place where He had spoken with him.

14 雅各伯在天主與他談話地方，豎立了一根柱子，一根石柱；在上面行了奠祭，倒上油。

So Jacob set up a pillar in the place where God had spoken with him—a stone marker—and he poured out a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil.

15 雅各伯給天主與他談話的地方起名叫貝特耳。

Jacob called the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.

16 他們由貝特耳起程出發，離厄弗辣大還有一段路程時，辣黑耳要生產，感覺難產。

Later, they set out from Bethel, and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult.

17 正當難產之際，收生婆對她說：「不要怕，你這次還是生個男孩。」

During her severe labor, the midwife said to her, “Do not be afraid, for you are having another son.”

18 辣黑耳將要斷氣快死的時候，給他起名叫本敖尼；但他的父親卻叫他本雅明。

And with her last breath—for she was dying—she named him Ben-oni. But his father called him Benjamin.

19 辣黑耳死了，葬在去厄弗辣大，即白冷的路旁。

So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

20 雅各伯在她墳上立了一塊碑；這塊辣黑耳墳上的碑，至今尚存。

Jacob set up a pillar on her grave; it marks Rachel’s tomb to this day.

21 以色列又起程前行，在米革達耳厄德爾的那一面支搭了帳幕。

Israel again set out and pitched his tent beyond the Tower of Eder.

22 以色列住在那地時，勒烏本竟去與他父親的妾彼耳哈同睡；以色列後來聞知了此事。雅各伯的兒子共計十二人。

While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:

23 肋阿的兒子：雅各伯的長子勒烏本、西默盎、肋未、猶大、依撒加爾和則步隆。

The sons of Leah were Reuben the firstborn of Jacob, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

24 辣黑耳的兒子：若瑟和本雅明。

The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.

25 辣黑耳的婢女彼耳哈的兒子：丹和納斐塔里。

The sons of Rachel’s maidservant Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali.

26 肋阿的婢女齊耳帕的兒子：加得和阿協爾：這些都是雅各伯在帕丹阿蘭生的兒子。

And the sons of Leah’s maidservant Zilpah were Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.

27 雅各伯來到了克黎雅特阿爾巴，即赫貝龍的瑪默勒他父親依撒格那裏，即亞巴郎和依撒格曾寄居過的地方。

Jacob returned to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.

28 依撒格享壽一百八十歲。

And Isaac lived 180 years.

29 他年高老邁，已享天年，遂斷氣而死，歸到他親族那裏去了；他的兒子厄撒烏和雅各伯將他埋葬了。

Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.