Genesis 28
1 And so Isaac called for Jacob, and he blessed him, and he instructed him, saying: “Do not be willing to accept a mate from the family of Canaan.
以撒叫了雅各来，给他祝福，并嘱咐他说：“你不要娶迦南的女子为妻。
2 But go, and journey to Mesopotamia of Syria, to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father, and there accept for yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban, your maternal uncle.
你起身往巴旦·亚兰去，到你外祖彼土利家里，在你母舅拉班的女儿中娶一女为妻。
3 And may God almighty bless you, and may he cause you to increase and also to multiply, so that you may be influential among the people.
愿全能的 神赐福给你，使你生养众多，成为多族，
4 And may he give the blessings of Abraham to you, and to your offspring after you, so that you may possess the land of your sojourning, which he promised to your grandfather.”
将应许亚伯拉罕的福赐给你和你的后裔，使你承受你所寄居的地为业，就是 神赐给亚伯拉罕的地。”
5 And when Isaac had dismissed him, setting out, he went to Mesopotamia of Syria, to Laban, the son of Bethuel, the Syrian, the brother to Rebekah, his mother.
以撒打发雅各走了，他就往巴旦·亚兰去，到亚兰人彼土利的儿子拉班那里。拉班是雅各、以扫的母舅。
6 But Esau, seeing that his father had blessed Jacob and had sent him into Mesopotamia of Syria, to take a wife from there, and that, after the blessing, he had instructed him, saying: ‘You shall not accept a wife from the daughters of Canaan,’
以扫见以撒已经给雅各祝福，而且打发他往巴旦·亚兰去，在那里娶妻，并见祝福的时候嘱咐他说：“不要娶迦南的女子为妻”，
7 and that Jacob, obeying his parents, had gone into Syria,
又见雅各听从父母的话往巴旦·亚兰去了，
8 having evidence also that his father did not look with favor upon the daughters of Canaan,
以扫就晓得他父亲以撒看不中迦南的女子，
9 he went to Ishmael, and he took as a wife, beside those he had before, Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth.
便往以实玛利那里去，在他二妻之外又娶了玛哈拉为妻。她是亚伯拉罕儿子以实玛利的女儿，尼拜约的妹子。
10 Meanwhile Jacob, having departed from Beersheba, continued on to Haran.
雅各出了别是巴，向哈兰走去；
11 And when he had arrived at a certain place, where he would rest after the setting of the sun, he took some of the stones that lay there, and placing them under his head, he slept in the same place.
到了一个地方，因为太阳落了，就在那里住宿，便拾起那地方的一块石头枕在头下，在那里躺卧睡了，
12 And he saw in his sleep: a ladder standing upon the earth, with its top touching heaven, also, the Angels of God ascending and descending by it,
梦见一个梯子立在地上，梯子的头顶着天，有 神的使者在梯子上，上去下来。
13 and the Lord, leaning upon the ladder, saying to him: “I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land, in which you sleep, I will give to you and to your offspring.
耶和华站在梯子以上，说：“我是耶和华—你祖亚伯拉罕的 神，也是以撒的 神；我要将你现在所躺卧之地赐给你和你的后裔。
14 And your offspring will be like the dust of the earth. You will spread abroad to the West, and to the East, and to the North, and to the Meridian. And in you and in your offspring, all the tribes of the earth shall be blessed.
你的后裔必像地上的尘沙那样多，必向东西南北开展；地上万族必因你和你的后裔得福。
15 And I will be your guardian wherever you will journey, and I will bring you back into this land. Neither will I dismiss you, until I have accomplished all that I have said.”
我也与你同在。你无论往哪里去，我必保佑你，领你归回这地，总不离弃你，直到我成全了向你所应许的。”
16 And when Jacob had awakened from sleep, he said, “Truly, the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.”
雅各睡醒了，说：“耶和华真在这里，我竟不知道！”
17 And being terrified, he said: “How terrible this place is! This is nothing other than the house of God and the gateway of heaven.”
就惧怕，说：“这地方何等可畏！这不是别的，乃是 神的殿，也是天的门。”
18 Therefore, Jacob, arising in the morning, took the stone which he had placed under his head, and he set it up as monument, pouring oil over it.
雅各清早起来，把所枕的石头立作柱子，浇油在上面。
19 And he called the name of the city, ‘Bethel,’ which before was called Luz.
他就给那地方起名叫伯特利；但那地方起先名叫路斯。
20 And then he made a vow, saying: “If God will be with me, and will guard me along the way by which I walk, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear,
雅各许愿说：“神若与我同在，在我所行的路上保佑我，又给我食物吃，衣服穿，
21 and if I will return prosperously to my father’s house, then the Lord will be my God,
使我平平安安地回到我父亲的家，我就必以耶和华为我的 神。
22 and this stone, which I have set up as a monument, will be called ‘the House of God.’ And from all the things that you will give to me, I will offer tithes to you.”
我所立为柱子的石头也必作 神的殿；凡你所赐给我的，我必将十分之一献给你。”
