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。」
Now Jacob heard the words of Laban's sons, that they said, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father's, and it is from our father's possessions that he has gotten all this wealth.”
2 雅各見拉班的氣色向他不如從前了。
Jacob saw the look on Laban's face. He saw that his attitude toward him had changed.
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。」
Then Yahweh said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”
4 雅各就打發人，叫拉結和利亞到田野羊群那裏來，
Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to 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 to them, “I see your father's attitude toward me has changed, but the God of my father has been with me.
6 你們也知道，我盡了我的力量服事你們的父親。
You know that it is with all my strength that 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。
Your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times, but God has not permitted him 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, 'The speckled animals will be your wages,' then all the flock bore speckled young. If he said, 'The striped will be your wages,' then the whole flock bore striped young.
9 這樣，上帝把你們父親的牲畜奪來賜給我了。
In this way God has taken away the livestock 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。
Once at the time of breeding season, I saw in a dream the male goats that were mating with the flock. The male goats were striped, speckled, and spotted.
11 上帝的使者在那夢中呼叫我說：『雅各。』我說：『我在這裏。』
The angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob.' I said, 'Here I am.'
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。
He said, 'Lift up your eyes and see all the male goats that are breeding with the flock. They are striped, speckled, and spotted, for I have seen everything that Laban is doing to you.
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 Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you made a vow to me. Now rise up and leave this land and return to the land of your birth.'”
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？
Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, “Is there 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 treated by him as foreigners? For he has sold us and has also completely devoured our money.
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 that God has taken away from our father are now ours and our children's. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do it.”
17 雅各起來，使他的兒子和妻子都騎上駱駝，
Then Jacob arose and placed 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。
He drove all his livestock ahead of him, along with all his property, including the livestock he had acquired in Paddan Aram. Then he set out to go to his father Isaac in 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。
When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father's household gods.
20 雅各背着亞蘭人拉班偷走了，並不告訴他，
Jacob also deceived Laban the Aramean, by not telling him that he was leaving.
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 quickly passed over the River, and headed toward the hill country of Gilead.
22 到第三日，有人告訴拉班，雅各逃跑了。
On the third day Laban was told that Jacob had 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。
So he took his relatives with him and pursued him for a seven days' journey. He overtook him in the hill country 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。」
Now God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, “Be careful that you speak to Jacob neither good nor 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。
Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country. Laban also camped with his relatives in the hill country 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。
Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you deceived me and carried away my daughters like prisoners of war?
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？
Why did you flee secretly and trick me and did not tell me? I would have sent you away with celebration and with songs, with tambourine and with harps.
28 又不容我與外孫和女兒親嘴？你所行的真是愚昧！
You did not allow me to kiss my grandsons and my daughters good bye. Now you have 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 my power to do you harm, but the God of your father spoke to me last night and said, 'Be careful that you speak to Jacob neither good nor 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？」
Now you have gone away because you longed to return to your father's house. But why did you steal 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。
Jacob answered and said to Laban, “Because I was afraid and thought that you would take your daughters from me by force I left secretly.
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。
Whoever has stolen your gods will not continue to live. In the presence of our relatives, identify whatever with me is yours and take it.” For Jacob did not know 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。
Laban went into Jacob's tent, into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two female servants, but he did not find them. 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 household gods, put them in a camel's saddle, and sat upon them. Laban searched the whole tent, but did not find them.
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。
She said to her father, “Do not be angry, my master, that I cannot stand up before you, for I am having my period.” So he searched but did not find his household gods.
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？
Jacob was angry and argued with Laban. He said to him, “What is my offense? What is my sin, that you have 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。
For you have searched all my possessions. What have you found of all your household goods? Set them here before our relatives, so that they may judge between 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；
For twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten any rams from your flocks.
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。
What was torn by beasts I did not bring to you. Instead, I bore the loss of it. You always made me pay for every missing animal, 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。
There I was; in the day the heat consumed me, and the frost by night; and I went without sleep.
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 I have been in your household. I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock. You have 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。」
Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the one Isaac fears, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God has seen my oppression and how hard I worked, and he rebuked you last night.”
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？
Laban answered and said to Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the grandchildren are my grandchildren, and the flocks are my flocks. All that you see is mine. But what can I do today to these my daughters, or to 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。」
So now, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it be for a witness between you and me.”
45 雅各就拿一塊石頭立作柱子，
So Jacob took a stone and set it up as 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。
Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” So they took stones and made a pile. Then they ate there by the pile.
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。
Laban called it Jegar Saha Dutha, 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，
Laban said, “This pile is a witness between me and you today.” Therefore its name was 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。
It is also called Mizpah, because Laban said, “May Yahweh watch between you and me, when we are out of sight 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 you mistreat my daughters, or if you take any wives besides my daughters, although no one else is with us, see, God is witness between you and me.”
51 拉班又說：「你看我在你我中間所立的這石堆和柱子。
Laban said to Jacob, “Look at this pile, and look at the pillar, which I have set between you and me.
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 pile is a witness, and the pillar is a witness, that I will not pass beyond this pile to you, and that you will not pass beyond this pile and this pillar to me, to do 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，
May the God of Abraham, and the god of Nahor, the gods of their father, judge between us.” 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。
Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and called his relatives to eat a meal. They ate and spent the entire night on 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。
Early in the morning Laban got up, kissed his grandsons and his daughters and blessed them. Then Laban left and returned home.
