創世記 31
1 雅各聽見拉班的兒子們有話說：「雅各把我們父親所有的都奪了去，並藉着我們父親的，得了這一切的榮耀。」
And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying: 'Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this wealth.'
2 雅各見拉班的氣色向他不如從前了。
And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as beforetime.
3 耶和華對雅各說：「你要回你祖、你父之地，到你親族那裏去，我必與你同在。」
And the LORD said unto Jacob: 'Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.'
4 雅各就打發人，叫拉結和利亞到田野羊群那裏來，
And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock,
5 對她們說：「我看你們父親的氣色向我不如從前了；但我父親的上帝向來與我同在。
and said unto them: 'I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as beforetime; but the God of my father hath been with me.
6 你們也知道，我盡了我的力量服事你們的父親。
And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.
7 你們的父親欺哄我，十次改了我的工價；然而上帝不容他害我。
And your father hath mocked me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
8 他若說：『有點的歸你作工價』，羊群所生的都有點；他若說：『有紋的歸你作工價』，羊群所生的都有紋。
If he said thus: The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the flock bore speckled; and if he said thus: The streaked shall be thy wages; then bore all the flock streaked.
9 這樣，上帝把你們父親的牲畜奪來賜給我了。
Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
10 羊配合的時候，我夢中舉目一看，見跳母羊的公羊都是有紋的、有點的、有花斑的。
And it came to pass at the time that the flock conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the he-goats which leaped upon the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled.
11 上帝的使者在那夢中呼叫我說：『雅各。』我說：『我在這裏。』
And the angel of God said unto me in the dream: Jacob; and I said: Here am I.
12 他說：『你舉目觀看，跳母羊的公羊都是有紋的、有點的、有花斑的；凡拉班向你所做的，我都看見了。
And he said: Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the he-goats which leap upon the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled; for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
13 我是伯特利的上帝；你在那裏用油澆過柱子，向我許過願。現今你起來，離開這地，回你本地去吧！』」
I am the God of Beth-el, where thou didst anoint a pillar, where thou didst vow a vow unto Me. Now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy nativity.'
14 拉結和利亞回答雅各說：「在我們父親的家裏還有我們可得的分嗎？還有我們的產業嗎？
And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him: 'Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
15 我們不是被他當作外人嗎？因為他賣了我們，吞了我們的價值。
Are we not accounted by him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath also quite devoured our price.
16 上帝從我們父親所奪出來的一切財物，那就是我們和我們孩子們的。現今凡上帝所吩咐你的，你只管去行吧！」
For all the riches which God hath taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's. Now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.'
17 雅各起來，使他的兒子和妻子都騎上駱駝，
Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon the camels;
18 又帶着他在巴旦‧亞蘭所得的一切牲畜和財物，往迦南地、他父親以撒那裏去了。
and he carried away all his cattle, and all his substance which he had gathered, the cattle of his getting, which he had gathered in Paddan-aram, to go to Isaac his father unto the land of Canaan.
19 當時拉班剪羊毛去了，拉結偷了他父親家中的神像。
Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep. And Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father's.
20 雅各背着亞蘭人拉班偷走了，並不告訴他，
And Jacob outwitted Laban the Aramean, in that he told him not that he fled.
21 就帶着所有的逃跑。他起身過大河，面向基列山行去。
So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.
22 到第三日，有人告訴拉班，雅各逃跑了。
And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.
23 拉班帶領他的眾弟兄去追趕，追了七日，在基列山就追上了。
And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and he overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.
24 夜間，上帝到亞蘭人拉班那裏，在夢中對他說：「你要小心，不可與雅各說好說歹。」
And God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream of the night, and said unto him: 'Take heed to thyself that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.'
25 拉班追上雅各。雅各在山上支搭帳棚；拉班和他的眾弟兄也在基列山上支搭帳棚。
And Laban came up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain; and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mountain of Gilead.
26 拉班對雅各說：「你做的是甚麼事呢？你背着我偷走了，又把我的女兒們帶了去，如同用刀劍擄去的一般。
And Laban said to Jacob: 'What hast thou done, that thou hast outwitted me, and carried away my daughters as though captives of the sword?
27 你為甚麼暗暗地逃跑，偷着走，並不告訴我，叫我可以歡樂、唱歌、擊鼓、彈琴地送你回去？
Wherefore didst thou flee secretly, and outwit me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth and with songs, with tabret and with harp;
28 又不容我與外孫和女兒親嘴？你所行的真是愚昧！
and didst not suffer me to kiss my sons and my daughters? now hast thou done foolishly.
29 我手中原有能力害你，只是你父親的上帝昨夜對我說：『你要小心，不可與雅各說好說歹。』
It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt; but the God of your father spoke unto me yesternight, saying: Take heed to thyself that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
30 現在你雖然想你父家，不得不去，為甚麼又偷了我的神像呢？」
And now that thou art surely gone, because thou sore longest after thy father's house, wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?'
31 雅各回答拉班說：「恐怕你把你的女兒從我奪去，所以我逃跑。
And Jacob answered and said to Laban: 'Because I was afraid; for I said: Lest thou shouldest take thy daughters from me by force.
32 至於你的神像，你在誰那裏搜出來，就不容誰存活。當着我們的眾弟兄，你認一認，在我這裏有甚麼東西是你的，就拿去。」原來雅各不知道拉結偷了那些神像。
With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, he shall not live; before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee.' — For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them. —
33 拉班進了雅各、利亞，並兩個使女的帳棚，都沒有搜出來，就從利亞的帳棚出來，進了拉結的帳棚。
And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two maid-servants; but he found them not. And he went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.
34 拉結已經把神像藏在駱駝的馱簍裏，便坐在上頭。拉班摸遍了那帳棚，並沒有摸着。
Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, and put them in the saddle of the camel, and sat upon them. And Laban felt about all the tent, but found them not.
35 拉結對她父親說：「現在我身上不便，不能在你面前起來，求我主不要生氣。」這樣，拉班搜尋神像，竟沒有搜出來。
And she said to her father: 'Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee; for the manner of women is upon me.' And he searched, but found not the teraphim.
36 雅各就發怒斥責拉班說：「我有甚麼過犯，有甚麼罪惡，你竟這樣火速地追我？
And Jacob was wroth, and strove with Laban. And Jacob answered and said to Laban: 'What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast hotly pursued after me?
37 你摸遍了我一切的家具，你搜出甚麼來呢？可以放在你我弟兄面前，叫他們在你我中間辨別辨別。
Whereas thou hast felt about all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? Set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us two.
38 我在你家這二十年，你的母綿羊、母山羊沒有掉過胎。你群中的公羊，我沒有吃過；
These twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flocks have I not eaten.
39 被野獸撕裂的，我沒有帶來給你，是我自己賠上。無論是白日，是黑夜，被偷去的，你都向我索要。
That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bore the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.
40 我白日受盡乾熱，黑夜受盡寒霜，不得合眼睡着，我常是這樣。
Thus I was: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes.
41 我這二十年在你家裏，為你的兩個女兒服事你十四年，為你的羊群服事你六年，你又十次改了我的工價。
These twenty years have I been in thy house: I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock; and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
42 若不是我父親以撒所敬畏的上帝，就是亞伯拉罕的上帝與我同在，你如今必定打發我空手而去。上帝看見我的苦情和我的勞碌，就在昨夜責備你。」
Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been on my side, surely now hadst thou sent me away empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and gave judgment yesternight.'
43 拉班回答雅各說：「這女兒是我的女兒，這些孩子是我的孩子，這些羊群也是我的羊群；凡在你眼前的都是我的。我的女兒並她們所生的孩子，我今日能向他們做甚麼呢？
And Laban answered and said unto Jacob: 'The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that thou seest is mine; and what can I do this day for these my daughters, or for their children whom they have borne?
44 來吧！你我二人可以立約，作你我中間的證據。」
And now come, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.'
45 雅各就拿一塊石頭立作柱子，
And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
46 又對眾弟兄說：「你們堆聚石頭。」他們就拿石頭來堆成一堆，大家便在旁邊吃喝。
And Jacob said unto his brethren: 'Gather stones'; and they took stones, and made a heap. And they did eat there by the heap.
47 拉班稱那石堆為伊迦爾‧撒哈杜他，雅各卻稱那石堆為迦累得。
And Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha; but Jacob called it Galeed.
48 拉班說：「今日這石堆作你我中間的證據。」因此這地方名叫迦累得，
And Laban said: 'This heap is witness between me and thee this day.' Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
49 又叫米斯巴，意思說：「我們彼此離別以後，願耶和華在你我中間鑒察。
and Mizpah, for he said: 'The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.
50 你若苦待我的女兒，又在我的女兒以外另娶妻，雖沒有人知道，卻有上帝在你我中間作見證。」
If thou shalt afflict my daughters, and if thou shalt take wives beside my daughters, no man being with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.'
51 拉班又說：「你看我在你我中間所立的這石堆和柱子。
And Laban said to Jacob: 'Behold this heap, and behold the pillar, which I have set up betwixt me and thee.
52 這石堆作證據，這柱子也作證據。我必不過這石堆去害你；你也不可過這石堆和柱子來害我。
This heap be witness, and the pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.
53 但願亞伯拉罕的上帝和拿鶴的上帝，就是他們父親的上帝，在你我中間判斷。」雅各就指着他父親以撒所敬畏的上帝起誓，
The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us.' And Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.
54 又在山上獻祭，請眾弟兄來吃飯。他們吃了飯，便在山上住宿。
And Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his brethren to eat bread; and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mountain.
55 拉班清早起來，與他外孫和女兒親嘴，給他們祝福，回往自己的地方去了。
And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. And Laban departed, and returned unto his place.
