创世记 28
1 以撒叫了雅各来，给他祝福，并嘱咐他说：“你不要娶迦南的女子为妻。
So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. “Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” he commanded.
2 你起身往巴旦·亚兰去，到你外祖彼土利家里，在你母舅拉班的女儿中娶一女为妻。
“Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel, and take a wife from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
3 愿全能的 神赐福给你，使你生养众多，成为多族，
May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples.
4 将应许亚伯拉罕的福赐给你和你的后裔，使你承受你所寄居的地为业，就是 神赐给亚伯拉罕的地。”
And may He give the blessing of Abraham to you and your descendants, so that you may possess the land where you dwell as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.”
5 以撒打发雅各走了，他就往巴旦·亚兰去，到亚兰人彼土利的儿子拉班那里。拉班是雅各、以扫的母舅。
So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.
6 以扫见以撒已经给雅各祝福，而且打发他往巴旦·亚兰去，在那里娶妻，并见祝福的时候嘱咐他说：“不要娶迦南的女子为妻”，
Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to take a wife there, commanding him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,”
7 又见雅各听从父母的话往巴旦·亚兰去了，
and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram.
8 以扫就晓得他父亲以撒看不中迦南的女子，
And seeing that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women,
9 便往以实玛利那里去，在他二妻之外又娶了玛哈拉为妻。她是亚伯拉罕儿子以实玛利的女儿，尼拜约的妹子。
Esau went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael, in addition to the wives he already had.
10 雅各出了别是巴，向哈兰走去；
Meanwhile Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran.
11 到了一个地方，因为太阳落了，就在那里住宿，便拾起那地方的一块石头枕在头下，在那里躺卧睡了，
On reaching a certain place, he spent the night there because the sun had set. And taking one of the stones from that place, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep.
12 梦见一个梯子立在地上，梯子的头顶着天，有 神的使者在梯子上，上去下来。
And Jacob had a dream about a ladder that rested on the earth with its top reaching up to heaven, and God’s angels were going up and down the ladder.
13 耶和华站在梯子以上，说：“我是耶和华—你祖亚伯拉罕的 神，也是以撒的 神；我要将你现在所躺卧之地赐给你和你的后裔。
And there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you now lie.
14 你的后裔必像地上的尘沙那样多，必向东西南北开展；地上万族必因你和你的后裔得福。
Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and east and north and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.
15 我也与你同在。你无论往哪里去，我必保佑你，领你归回这地，总不离弃你，直到我成全了向你所应许的。”
Look, I am with you, and I will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”
16 雅各睡醒了，说：“耶和华真在这里，我竟不知道！”
When Jacob woke up, he thought, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was unaware of it.”
17 就惧怕，说：“这地方何等可畏！这不是别的，乃是 神的殿，也是天的门。”
And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven!”
18 雅各清早起来，把所枕的石头立作柱子，浇油在上面。
Early the next morning, Jacob took the stone that he had placed under his head, and he set it up as a pillar. He poured oil on top of it,
19 他就给那地方起名叫伯特利；但那地方起先名叫路斯。
and he called that place Bethel, though previously the city had been named Luz.
20 雅各许愿说：“神若与我同在，在我所行的路上保佑我，又给我食物吃，衣服穿，
Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and watch over me on this journey, and if He will provide me with food to eat and clothes to wear,
21 使我平平安安地回到我父亲的家，我就必以耶和华为我的 神。
so that I may return safely to my father’s house, then the LORD will be my God.
22 我所立为柱子的石头也必作 神的殿；凡你所赐给我的，我必将十分之一献给你。”
And this stone I have set up as a pillar will be God’s house, and of all that You give me I will surely give You a tenth.”
