創世記 28
1 以撒叫了雅各來，給他祝福，並囑咐他說：「你不要娶迦南的女子為妻。
And Isaac having called for Jacob, blessed him, and charged him, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of the Chananites.
2 你起身往巴旦‧亞蘭去，到你外祖彼土利家裏，在你母舅拉班的女兒中娶一女為妻。
Rise and depart quickly into Mesopotamia, to the house of Bathuel the father of thy mother, and take to thyself thence a wife of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.
3 願全能的上帝賜福給你，使你生養眾多，成為多族，
And may my God bless thee, and increase thee, and multiply thee, and thou shalt become gatherings of nations.
4 將應許亞伯拉罕的福賜給你和你的後裔，使你承受你所寄居的地為業，就是上帝賜給亞伯拉罕的地。」
And may he give thee the blessing of my father Abraam, even to thee and to thy seed after thee, to inherit the land of thy sojourning, which God gave to Abraam.
5 以撒打發雅各走了，他就往巴旦‧亞蘭去，到亞蘭人彼土利的兒子拉班那裏。拉班是雅各、以掃的母舅。
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 以掃見以撒已經給雅各祝福，而且打發他往巴旦‧亞蘭去，在那裏娶妻，並見祝福的時候囑咐他說：「不要娶迦南的女子為妻」，
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, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of the Chananites;
7 又見雅各聽從父母的話往巴旦‧亞蘭去了，
and [that] Jacob hearkened to his father and his mother, and went to Mesopotamia of Syria.
8 以掃就曉得他父親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 便往以實瑪利那裏去，在他二妻之外又娶了瑪哈拉為妻。她是亞伯拉罕兒子以實瑪利的女兒，尼拜約的妹子。
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 雅各出了別是巴，向哈蘭走去；
And Jacob went forth from the well of the oath, and departed into Charrhan.
11 到了一個地方，因為太陽落了，就在那裏住宿，便拾起那地方的一塊石頭枕在頭下，在那裏躺臥睡了，
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 夢見一個梯子立在地上，梯子的頭頂着天，有上帝的使者在梯子上，上去下來。
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 耶和華站在梯子以上，說：「我是耶和華－你祖亞伯拉罕的上帝，也是以撒的上帝；我要將你現在所躺臥之地賜給你和你的後裔。
And the Lord stood upon it, and said, I am the God of thy father Abraam, and the God of Isaac; fear not, the land on which thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed.
14 你的後裔必像地上的塵沙那樣多，必向東西南北開展；地上萬族必因你和你的後裔得福。
And thy 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 thee and in thy seed shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed.
15 我也與你同在。你無論往哪裏去，我必保佑你，領你歸回這地，總不離棄你，直到我成全了向你所應許的。」
And behold I am with thee to preserve thee continually in all the way wherein thou shalt go; and I will bring thee back to this land; for I will not desert thee, until I have done all that I have said to thee.
16 雅各睡醒了，說：「耶和華真在這裏，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 就懼怕，說：「這地方何等可畏！這不是別的，乃是上帝的殿，也是天的門。」
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 雅各清早起來，把所枕的石頭立作柱子，澆油在上面。
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 他就給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 雅各許願說：「上帝若與我同在，在我所行的路上保佑我，又給我食物吃，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親的家，我就必以耶和華為我的上帝。
and bring me back in safety to the house of my father, then shall the Lord be for a God to me.
22 我所立為柱子的石頭也必作上帝的殿；凡你所賜給我的，我必將十分之一獻給你。」
And this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be to me a house of God; and of all whatsoever thou shalt give me, I will tithe a tenth for thee.
