Genesis 32
1 And Jacob departed for his journey; and having looked up, he saw the host of God encamped; and the angels of God met him.
雅各伯也上道前行，遇見了天主的使者。
2 And Jacob said, when he saw them, This is the Camp of God; and he called the name of that place, Encampments.
雅各伯一見他們就說：「這是天主的營地。」遂給那地方起名叫瑪哈納因。
3 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother to the land of Seir, to the country of Edom.
雅各伯先派使者，往厄東鄉間色依爾地方，他哥哥厄撒烏那裏去，
4 And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye say to my lord Esau: Thus saith thy servant Jacob; I have sojourned with Laban and tarried until now.
吩咐他們說：「你們應對我主厄撒烏這樣說：你的僕人雅各伯這樣說：我在拉班那裏作客，一直到現在。
5 And there were born to me oxen, and asses, and sheep, and men-servants and women-servants; and I sent to tell my lord Esau, that thy servant might find grace in thy sight.
我擁有牛、驢、羊和僕婢，現在打發人報告我主，希望得你的恩愛。」
6 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and lo! he comes to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.
使主回來見雅各伯說：「我們到了你哥哥厄撒烏那裏，他正前來迎接你；同他來的尚有四百人。」
7 And Jacob was greatly terrified, and was perplexed; and he divided the people that was with him, and the cows, and the camels, and the sheep, into two camps.
雅各伯大為震驚，很是憂慮，遂將自己的人和羊群牛群及駱駝分作兩隊，
8 And Jacob said, If Esau should come to one camp, and smite it, the other camp shall be in safety.
心想如果厄撒烏前來攻擊一隊，剩下的另一隊還可逃跑。
9 And Jacob said, God of my father Abraam, and God of my father Isaac, O Lord, thou [art] he that said to me, Depart quickly to the land of thy birth, and I will do thee good.
然後雅各伯祈求說：「我父亞巴郎的天主，我父依撒格的天主、上主! 你曾對我說：回到你本鄉，你本家去，我必使你順利。
10 Let there be to me a sufficiency of all the justice and all the truth which thou hast wrought with thy servant; for with this my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two camps.
我本不配獲得你向你僕人所施的種種慈恩和忠信，我只帶了一條棍杖過了這約但河，現在我卻擁有兩隊人馬。
11 Deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I am afraid of him, lest haply he should come and smite me, and the mother upon the children.
求你救我脫離我哥哥厄撒烏的手，因為我怕他來擊殺我，擊殺母親和孩子。
12 But thou saidst, I will do thee good, and will make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which shall not be numbered for multitude.
你原來說過：我必要恩待你，使你的後代如海沙，多得不可勝數。」
13 And he slept there that night, and took of the gifts which he carried [with him], and sent out to Esau his brother,
那夜雅各伯就在那裏過夜。然後，就由他所有的財物中選出一些來，送給他哥哥厄撒烏作禮物：
14 two hundred she-goats, twenty he-goats, two hundred sheep, twenty rams,
計有母山羊二百隻，公山羊二十隻，母綿羊二百隻，公綿羊二十隻，
15 milch camels, and their foals, thirty, forty kine, ten bulls, twenty asses, and ten colts.
哺乳的母駱駝同駝駒三十頭，母牛四十頭，公牛十頭，母驢二十匹，公驢十匹。
16 And he gave them to his servants [each] drove apart; and he said to his servants, Go on before me, and put a space between drove and drove.
他將這些分成一隊一隊的交給自己的僕人，對他們說：「你們應走在我前面，每隊之間應隔開些。」
17 And he charged the first, saying, If Esau my brother meet thee, and he ask thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither wouldest thou go, and whose are these possessions advancing before thee?
然後吩咐第一隊說：「幾時我哥哥厄撒烏遇見你，問你說：你是誰家的﹖你往那裏去﹖你前面這些牲畜是誰的﹖
18 Thou shalt say, Thy servant Jacob's; he hath sent gifts to my lord Esau, and lo! he is behind us.
你要答說：是你僕人雅各伯的，是送給我主厄撒烏的禮物。看，他自己就在我們後面。」
19 And he charged the first and the second and the third, and all that went before him after these flocks, saying, Thus shall ye speak to Esau when ye find him;
他也吩咐了第二第三隊，和跟在每隊後面的人說：「你們若遇見厄撒烏，都要照這話回答他。
20 and ye shall say, Behold thy servant Jacob comes after us. For he said, I will propitiate his countenance with the gifts going before his presence, and afterwards I will behold his face, for peradventure he will accept me.
並且還要說：看，你的僕人雅各伯就在我們後面。」因為他心裏想：如果我先送禮向他討好，然後才與他見面，也許他會歡迎我。」
21 So the presents went on before him, but he himself lodged that night in the camp.
於是禮物先他而行，他自己當夜仍留在營內。
22 And he rose up in that night, and took his two wives and his two servant-maids, and his eleven children, and crossed over the ford of Jaboch.
他當夜起來，帶了他的兩個妻子，兩個婢女和十一個孩子，由淺處過了雅波克河。
23 And he took them, and passed over the torrent, and brought over all his possessions.
等他們過了河，也叫自己所有的過了河，
24 And Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him till the morning.
雅各伯獨自一人留在後面。有一人前來與他搏鬥一直到曙光破曉。
25 And he saw that he prevailed not against him; and he touched the broad part of his thigh, and the broad part of Jacob's thigh was benumbed in his wrestling with him.
那人見自己不能制勝，就在他的大腿窩上打了一下；雅各伯正在與他搏鬥之際，大腿窩脫了節。
26 And he said to him, Let me go, for the day has dawned; but he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
那人說：「讓我走罷! 天已破曉。」雅各伯說：「你如果不祝福我，我不讓你走。」
27 And he said to him, What is thy name? and he answered, Jacob.
那人問他說：「你叫什麼名字﹖」他答說：「雅各伯。」
28 And he said to him, Thy name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name; for thou hast prevailed with God, and shalt be mighty with men.
那人說：「你的名字以後不再叫雅各伯，應叫以色列，因為你與神與人搏鬥，佔了優勢。」
29 And Jacob asked and said, Tell me thy name; and he said, Wherefore dost thou ask after my name? and he blessed him there.
雅各伯問說：「請你告訴我你的名字。」那人答說：「為什麼你要問我的名字﹖」遂在那裏祝福了他。
30 And Jacob called the name of that place, the Face of God; for, [said he, ]I have seen God face to face, and my life was preserved.
雅各伯給那地方起名叫「培尼耳，」意謂「我面對面見了神，我的生命仍得保全。」
31 And the sun rose upon him, when he passed the Face of God; and he halted upon his thigh.
雅各伯經過培尼耳時，太陽已升起照在身上，由於大腿脫了節，他一走一瘸。
32 Therefore the children of Israel will by no means eat of the sinew which was benumbed, which is on the broad part of the thigh, until this day, because [the angel] touched the broad part of the thigh of Jacob—[even] the sinew which was benumbed.
為此，以色列子民至今不吃大腿窩上的筋，因為那人打了雅各伯的大腿窩，正打在筋上。
