創世記 27
1 以撒年老，眼睛昏花，不能看見，就叫了他大兒子以掃來，說：「我兒。」以掃說：「我在這裏。」
It happened, that when Isaac was old, and his eyesight was failing so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, "My son?" He said to him, "Here I am."
2 他說：「我如今老了，不知道哪一天死。
He said, "Look, I am old now. I do not know the day of my death.
3 現在拿你的器械，就是箭囊和弓，往田野去為我打獵，
Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and hunt down a wild animal for me.
4 照我所愛的做成美味，拿來給我吃，使我在未死之先給你祝福。」
Make me the tasty food that I love and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die."
5 以撒對他兒子以掃說話，利百加也聽見了。以掃往田野去打獵，要得野味帶來。
Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And Esau went out to the field to hunt for a wild animal and bring it back to his father.
6 利百加就對她兒子雅各說：「我聽見你父親對你哥哥以掃說：
And Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, "Look, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,
7 『你去把野獸帶來，做成美味給我吃，我好在未死之先，在耶和華面前給你祝福。』
'Bring me a wild animal and prepare for me some tasty food, that I may eat it and bless you in my presence before my death.'
8 現在，我兒，你要照着我所吩咐你的，聽從我的話。
Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.
9 你到羊群裏去，給我拿兩隻肥山羊羔來，我便照你父親所愛的給他做成美味。
Go now to the flock, and get me from there two choice young goats. I will prepare them in a tasty way for your father, the way he likes it.
10 你拿到你父親那裏給他吃，使他在未死之先給你祝福。」
You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death."
11 雅各對他母親利百加說：「我哥哥以掃渾身是有毛的，我身上是光滑的；
Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "Look, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.
12 倘若我父親摸着我，必以我為欺哄人的，我就招咒詛，不得祝福。」
What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing."
13 他母親對他說：「我兒，你招的咒詛歸到我身上；你只管聽我的話，去把羊羔給我拿來。」
His mother said to him, "Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me."
14 他便去拿來，交給他母親；他母親就照他父親所愛的做成美味。
He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother prepared some tasty food, just the way his father liked it.
15 利百加又把家裏所存大兒子以掃上好的衣服給她小兒子雅各穿上，
Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son.
16 又用山羊羔皮包在雅各的手上和頸項的光滑處，
She put the skins of the young goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.
17 就把所做的美味和餅交在她兒子雅各的手裏。
She handed the tasty food and the bread which she had prepared to her son Jacob.
18 雅各到他父親那裏說：「我父親！」他說：「我在這裏。我兒，你是誰？」
He came to his father, and said, "My father?" He said, "Here I am. Who are you, my son?"
19 雅各對他父親說：「我是你的長子以掃；我已照你所吩咐我的行了。請起來坐着，吃我的野味，好給我祝福。」
Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please sit up and eat what I hunted so that you can bless me."
20 以撒對他兒子說：「我兒，你如何找得這麼快呢？」他說：「因為耶和華－你的上帝使我遇見好機會得着的。」
Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?" He said, "Because your God gave me success."
21 以撒對雅各說：「我兒，你近前來，我摸摸你，知道你真是我的兒子以掃不是。」
Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not."
22 雅各就挨近他父親以撒。以撒摸着他，說：「聲音是雅各的聲音，手卻是以掃的手。」
Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."
23 以撒就辨不出他來；因為他手上有毛，像他哥哥以掃的手一樣，就給他祝福；
He did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau. So he blessed him.
24 又說：「你真是我兒子以掃嗎？」他說：「我是。」
He said, "Are you really my son Esau?" He said, "I am."
25 以撒說：「你遞給我，我好吃我兒子的野味，給你祝福。」雅各就遞給他，他便吃了，又拿酒給他，他也喝了。
He said, "Bring it near to me, and I will eat of what my son caught so that I can bless you." He brought it near to him, and he ate. He brought him wine, and he drank.
26 他父親以撒對他說：「我兒，你上前來與我親嘴。」
His father Isaac said to him, "Come near now, and kiss me, my son."
27 他就上前與父親親嘴。他父親一聞他衣服上的香氣，就給他祝福，說： 我兒的香氣 如同耶和華賜福之田地的香氣一樣。
He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the scent of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, "Look, the scent of my son is as the scent of a field which God has blessed.
28 願上帝賜你天上的甘露， 地上的肥土， 並許多五穀新酒。
God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.
29 願多民事奉你， 多國跪拜你。 願你作你弟兄的主； 你母親的兒子向你跪拜。 凡咒詛你的，願他受咒詛； 為你祝福的，願他蒙福。
Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. Blessed be everyone who blesses you."
30 以撒為雅各祝福已畢，雅各從他父親那裏才出來，他哥哥以掃正打獵回來，
It happened, as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just left the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
31 也做了美味，拿來給他父親，說：「請父親起來，吃你兒子的野味，好給我祝福。」
He also made some tasty food, and brought it to his father. He said to his father, "Let my father get up and eat of what his son caught, so that you may bless me."
32 他父親以撒對他說：「你是誰？」他說：「我是你的長子以掃。」
Isaac his father said to him, "Who are you?" He said, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau."
33 以撒就大大地戰兢，說：「你未來之先，是誰得了野味拿來給我呢？我已經吃了，為他祝福；他將來也必蒙福。」
Isaac trembled violently, and said, "Who was it then that hunted an animal and brought it to me, and I ate it all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed."
34 以掃聽了他父親的話，就放聲痛哭，說：「我父啊，求你也為我祝福！」
When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out loudly and bitterly, and said to his father, "Bless me, even me also, my father."
35 以撒說：「你兄弟已經用詭計來將你的福分奪去了。」
He said, "Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing."
36 以掃說：「他名雅各，豈不是正對嗎？因為他欺騙了我兩次：他從前奪了我長子的名分，你看，他現在又奪了我的福分。」以掃又說：「你沒有留下為我可祝的福嗎？」
He said, "Isn't he rightly named Jacob? For he has taken what should have been mine these two times. He took away my birthright. Look, now he has taken away my blessing." He said, "Haven't you reserved a blessing for me?"
37 以撒回答以掃說：「我已立他為你的主，使他的弟兄都給他作僕人，並賜他五穀新酒可以養生。我兒，現在我還能為你做甚麼呢？」
Isaac answered Esau, "Look, I have made him your lord, and I have made all of his brothers his servants. And I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then can I do for you, my son?"
38 以掃對他父親說：「父啊，你只有一樣可祝的福嗎？我父啊，求你也為我祝福！」以掃就放聲而哭。
Esau said to his father, "Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father." Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
39 他父親以撒說： 地上的肥土必為你所住； 天上的甘露必為你所得。
Isaac his father answered him, "Look, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling, and of the dew of the sky from above.
40 你必倚靠刀劍度日， 又必事奉你的兄弟； 到你強盛的時候， 必從你頸項上掙開他的軛。
By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you shall shake his yoke from off your neck."
41 以掃因他父親給雅各祝的福，就怨恨雅各，心裏說：「為我父親居喪的日子近了，到那時候，我要殺我的兄弟雅各。」
Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob."
42 有人把利百加大兒子以掃的話告訴利百加，她就打發人去，叫了她小兒子雅各來，對他說：「你哥哥以掃想要殺你，報仇雪恨。
The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, "Look, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.
43 現在，我兒，你要聽我的話：起來，逃往哈蘭、我哥哥拉班那裏去，
Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.
44 同他住些日子，直等你哥哥的怒氣消了。
Stay with him a few days, until your brother's fury turns away;
45 你哥哥向你消了怒氣，忘了你向他所做的事，我便打發人去把你從那裏帶回來。為甚麼一日喪你們二人呢？」
until your brother's anger against you subsides, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send for you and get you from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?"
46 利百加對以撒說：「我因這赫人的女子連性命都厭煩了；倘若雅各也娶赫人的女子為妻，像這些一樣，我活着還有甚麼益處呢？」
Rebekah said to Isaac, "I loathe my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these, from the daughters of the land, what good is my life?"
