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 having called for Jacob, blessed him, and charged him, saying, You shall not take a wife of the daughters of the Chananites.
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。
Rise and depart quickly into Mesopotamia, to the house of Bathuel the father of your mother, and take to yourself thence a wife of 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，
And may my God bless you, and increase you, and multiply you, and you shall become gatherings of nations.
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 you the blessing of my father Abraam, even to you and to your seed after you, to inherit the land of your sojourning, which God gave to Abraam.
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 away Jacob, and he went into Mesopotamia to Laban the son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebecca 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”，
And Esau saw that Isaac blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Mesopotamia of Syria as he blessed him, to take to himself a wife thence, and [that] he charged him, saying, You shall not take a wife of the daughters of the Chananites;
7 又见雅各听从父母的话往巴旦·亚兰去了，
and [that] Jacob listened to his father and his mother, and went to Mesopotamia of Syria.
8 以扫就晓得他父亲以撒看不中迦南的女子，
And Esau also having seen that the daughters of Chanaan were evil before his father Isaac,
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 Ismael, and took Maeleth the daughter of Ismael, the son of Abraam, the sister of Nabeoth, a wife in addition to his [other] wives.
10 雅各出了别是巴，向哈兰走去；
And Jacob went forth from the well of the oath, and departed into Charrhan.
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 came to a certain place and slept there, for the sun had gone down; and he took [one] of the stones of the place, and put it at his head, and lay down to sleep in that 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 dreamed, and behold a ladder fixed on the earth, whose top reached to heaven, and the angels of God ascended and descended on 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 stood upon it, and said, I am the God of your father Abraam, and the God of Isaac; fear not, the land on which you lie, to you will I give it, and to your 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 your seed shall be as the sand of the earth; and it shall spread abroad to the sea, and the south, and the north, and to the east; and in you and in your seed shall all the tribes of the earth 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 behold I am with you to preserve you continually in all the way wherein you shall go; and I will bring you back to this land; for I will not desert you, until I have done all that I have said to you.
16 雅各睡醒了，说：“耶和华真在这里，我竟不知道！”
And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and said, 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 he was afraid, and said, How fearful is this place! this is none other than the house of God, and 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。
And Jacob rose up in the morning, and took the stone he [had] laid there by his head, and he set it up [as] a pillar, and poured oil on 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 that place, the House of God; and the name of the city before was Ulam-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，
And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If the Lord God will be with me, and guard me throughout on this journey, on which I am going, and 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 bring me back in safety to the house of my father, then shall the Lord be for a God to me.
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 pillar, shall be to me a house of God; and of all whatever you shall give me, I will tithe a tenth for you.
