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。
And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, saying: Take not a wife of the stock of Chanaan:
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。
But go, and take a journey to Mesopotamia of Syria, to the house of Bathuel thy mother’s father, and take thee a wife thence of the daughters of Laban thy uncle.
3 愿全能的 神赐福给你，使你生养众多，成为多族，
And God almighty bless thee, and make thee to increase, and multiply thee: that thou mayst be a multitude of people.
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 give the blessings of Abraham to thee, and to thy seed after thee: that thou mayst possess the land of thy sojournment, which he promised to thy grandfather.
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。
And when Isaac had sent him away, he took his journey and went to Mesopotamia of Syria to Laban the son of Bathuel the Syrian, brother to Rebecca his mother.
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”，
And Esau seeing that his father had blessed Jacob, and had sent him into Mesopotamia of Syria, to marry a wife thence; and that after the blessing he had charged him, saying: Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Chanaan:
7 又见雅各听从父母的话往巴旦·亚兰去了，
And that Jacob obeying his parents was gone into Syria:
8 以扫就晓得他父亲以撒看不中迦南的女子，
Experiencing also that his father was not well pleased with the daughters of Chanaan:
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。
He went to Ismael, and took to wife, besides them he had before, Maheleth the daughter of Ismael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nabajoth.
10 雅各出了别是巴，向哈兰走去；
But Jacob being departed from Bersabee, went on to 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，
And when he was come to a certain place, and would rest in it after sunset, he took of the stones that lay there, and putting under his head, slept in the same place.
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 he saw in his sleep a ladder standing upon the earth, and the top thereof touching heaven: the angels also of God ascending and descending by it;
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 the Lord leaning upon the ladder, saying to him: I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac; the land, wherein thou sleepest, I will give to thee and to thy seed.
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。
And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth: thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and IN THEE and thy seed all the tribes of the earth SHALL BE BLESSED.
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。”
And I will be thy keeper whithersoever thou goest, and will bring thee back into this land: neither will I leave thee, till I shall have accomplished all that I have said.
16 雅各睡醒了，说：“耶和华真在这里，我竟不知道！”
And when Jacob awaked out of sleep, he said: Indeed the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not.
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 trembling he said: How terrible is this place! this is no other but the house of God, and 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。
And Jacob, arising in the morning, took the stone, which he had laid under his head, and set it up for a title, pouring oil upon the 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 the name of the city Bethel, which before was called Luza.
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，
And he made a vow, saying: If God shall be with me, and shall keep me in the way by which I walk, and shall give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
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。
And I shall return prosperously to my father’s house: the Lord shall 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, which I have set up for a title, shall be called the house of God: and of all things that thou shalt give to me, I will offer tithes to thee.
