Genesis 31
1 But afterwards, he heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying, “Jacob has taken all that was our father’s, and being enlarged by his ability, he has become famous.”
雅各伯聽見拉班的兒子們談論說：「雅各伯奪去了我們父親所有的一切，利用我們父親的財物，才獲得了這一切的財富。」
2 Likewise, he observed that Laban’s face was not the same toward him as it was yesterday and the day before.
雅各伯也注意了拉班對自己的臉色不如先前。
3 Most importantly, the Lord was saying to him, “Return to the land of your fathers and to your generation, and I will be with you.”
那時，上主對雅各伯說：「你回到你的家鄉和你的出生地，我必與你同在。」
4 He sent and called for Rachel and Leah, in the field where he pastured the flocks,
雅各伯就派人叫辣黑耳和肋阿來到放羊的田間，
5 and he said to them: “I see that your father’s face is not the same toward me as it was yesterday and the day before. But the God of my father has been with me.
對她們說：「我看你們父親的臉色，對我已不如先前；但是我父親的天主卻與我同在。
6 And you know that I have served your father with all my strength.
你們清楚知道，我是全力服事了你們的父親；
7 Even so, your father has circumvented me, and he has changed my wages ten times. And yet God has not permitted him to harm me.
你們的父親卻欺騙了我，十次變換了我的工價，但天住卻沒有容許他害我。
8 Whenever he said, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ all the sheep gave birth to speckled newborns. Yet truly, when he said the contrary, ‘You will take whatever is white for your wages,’ all the flocks gave birth to white ones.
當他說：有斑點的算是你的工價；全羊群就都生下有斑點的；當他說：有條紋的算是你的工價，全羊群就都生下有條紋的。
9 And it is God who has taken your father’s substance and given it to me.
天主這樣將你們父親的牲畜奪來了給我。
10 For after the time had arrived for the ewes to conceive, I lifted up my eyes, and I saw in my sleep that the males climbing on the females were of variegated, and spotted, and diverse colors.
有一次當羊群配合時，我於夢中舉目觀望：看見跳在母羊身上的公山羊，都是有條紋，有斑點和雜色的。
11 And the Angel of God said to me in my sleep, ‘Jacob.’ And I responded, ‘Here I am.’
天主的使者在夢中對我說：雅各伯! 我答說：我在這裏。
12 And he said: ‘Lift up your eyes, and see that all the males climbing on the females are variegated, spotted, and also speckled. For I have seen all that Laban has done to you.
他說：你舉目觀望：跳在母羊身上的公山羊，都是有條紋，有斑點和雜色的，因為我看到了拉班對你所作的一切。
13 I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the stone and made a vow to me. Now therefore arise, and depart from this land, returning to the land of your nativity.’”
我是貝特耳的天主，你曾在那裏用油敷了一座石柱，並對我許了願。現在你起身，離開這地方，回到你生身之地去。」
14 And Rachel and Leah responded: “Have we anything left behind among the resources and inheritance of our father’s house?
辣黑耳和肋阿回答他說：「我們在父親家裏還有產業可分嗎﹖
15 Has he not considered us as foreigners, and sold us, and consumed our price?
他豈不是把我們視作外人，把我們出賣了，吞併了我們的身價﹖
16 But God has taken our father’s riches and handed these to us and to our sons. Therefore, do all that God has instructed you.”
所以天主由我們父親奪來的那一切財物，都應屬於我們和我們子女。現今凡天主吩咐你的，你都該照辦。
17 And so Jacob rose up, and having placed the children and his wives upon camels, he went forth.
雅各伯遂立即叫自己的兒女和妻子騎上駱駝，
18 And he took all his substance and flocks, and whatever he had acquired in Mesopotamia, and he journeyed to his father Isaac, in the land of Canaan.
帶了自己一切牲畜和積聚的一切財物，即他在帕丹阿蘭所得的一切牲畜，起程往客納罕地，他父親依撒格那裏去了。
19 At that time, Laban had gone to shear the sheep, and so Rachel stole her father’s idols.
其時拉班正剪羊毛去了，辣黑耳就偷走了她父親的神像。
20 And Jacob was not willing to confess to his father-in-law that he was fleeing.
雅各伯隱瞞了阿蘭人拉班，沒有告訴拉班他將逃走，
21 And when he had gone away with all such things that were justly his, and, having crossed the river, was continuing on toward Mount Gilead,
遂帶了自己所有的一切逃走了，起身過了幼發拉的河，直向基肋阿得山地進發。
22 it was reported to Laban on the third day that Jacob had fled.
第三天拉班得報雅各伯偷跑了，
23 And taking his brothers with him, he pursued him for seven days. And he overtook him at Mount Gilead.
遂帶了自己的弟兄，在他後面一連追趕了七天的路程，在基肋阿得山地追上了他。
24 And he saw in a dream, God saying to him, “Beware that you not speak anything harsh against Jacob.”
天主在夜間夢中顯現給阿蘭人拉班，對他說：「你小心，不要對雅各伯說好說壞。」
25 And now Jacob had pitched his tent at the mountain. And when he, with his brothers, had overtaken him, he set his tent at the same place at Mount Gilead.
拉班追上雅各伯時，雅各伯已在山上搭了帳幕；拉班和他的弟兄也在基肋阿得山地搭了帳幕。
26 And he said to Jacob: “Why have you acted this way, departing from me in secret, with my daughters like captives of the sword?
拉班對雅各伯說：「你作的是什麼事﹖竟瞞著我，將我的女兒們帶走，有如戰俘一樣!
27 Why would you want to flee without my knowledge and without telling me, though I might have led you forward with gladness, and songs, and timbrels, and lyres?
你為什麼暗中偷跑，瞞著我而不通知我，叫我好能快樂的唱著歌，打著鼓，彈著琴歡送你回去﹖
28 You have not permitted me to kiss my sons and daughters. You have acted foolishly. And now, indeed,
連我的兒女你都不讓我與他們吻別，你作的實在糊塗!
29 my hand has power to repay you with harm. But the God of your father said to me yesterday, ‘Beware that you not speak anything stern against Jacob.’
我本可伸手加害你們，但是你們父親的天主昨夜對我說：小心，不要對雅各伯說好說壞。
30 It may be that you desired to go to your own, and that you longed for the house of your father. But why have you stolen my gods?”
你現在切望回到父家，定要回去，但是你為什麼偷走了我的神像! 」
31 Jacob answered: “I set out, unknown to you, because I feared that you might take away your daughters by violence.
雅各伯回答拉班說：「我害怕，我還以為你要由我手中奪去你的女兒。
32 But, since you accuse me of theft, with whomever you will find your gods, let him be slain in the sight of our brothers. Search; anything of yours that you will find with me, take it away.” Now when he said this, he did not know that Rachel had stolen the idols.
至於你的神像，你在誰那裏搜出來，決不容他活著；當著我們弟兄的面，你如認出我這裏有什麼是屬於你的，儘管拿去。」雅各伯原不知道是辣黑耳偷了神像。
33 And so Laban, entering the tent of Jacob, and of Leah, and of both the handmaids, did not find them. And when he had entered the tent of Rachel,
拉班便進入雅各伯的帳幕，肋阿的帳幕和兩個婢女的帳幕，沒有找著；遂由肋阿的帳幕出來，進入辣黑耳的帳幕，
34 she quickly hid the idols under the camel’s bedding, and she sat upon them. And when he had searched the entire tent and found nothing,
辣黑耳卻拿了神像，放在駱駝的鞍下，自己坐在上面。拉班搜遍了整個帳幕，沒有找著。
35 she said: “Do not be angry, my lord, that I am unable to rise up in your sight, because it has now happened to me according to the custom of women.” So his careful search was thwarted.
辣黑耳對她父親說：「望我主不要見怪，我不能在你面前起迎，因為我正在經期。」他搜索了，卻沒有找著神像。
36 And Jacob, being inflated, said with contention: “For which fault of mine, or for what sin of mine, have you become so enraged against me
雅各伯於是動怒，與拉班爭論，質問他說：「我有什麼不對，有什麼罪過，致使你在我後面追趕﹖
37 and searched all the items of my house? What have you found from all the substance of your house? Place it here before my brothers, and your brothers, and let them judge between me and you.
你搜遍了我的東西，如找出了什麼東西是屬於你家的，擺在我和你的兄弟面前，叫他們在我們兩人間行裁判。
38 For what reason have I been with you for twenty years? Your ewes and she-goats were not barren; the rams of your flocks I did not consume.
這二十年來，我同你在一起，你的母綿羊和母山羊從未流產；你羊群中的公羊，我從未吃過；
39 Neither did I reveal to you what was seized by the wild beast. I replaced all that was damaged. Whatever was lost by theft, you collected it from me.
被野獸撕裂的我從未給你帶回，我自己賠償了損失；不論是白天偷去的，或是黑夜偷去的，你都向我索取。
40 Day and night, I was burned by heat and by frost, and sleep fled from my eyes.
日間我受盡炎熱，夜間受盡嚴寒，兩眼無法入睡。在你家內這二十年，為了你的兩個女兒，我服事了你十四年；
41 And in this way, for twenty years, I have served you in your house: fourteen for your daughters, and six for your flocks. You have also changed my wages ten times.
另六年是為了你的羊群，這期間你竟十次變更了我的工價。
42 If the God of my father Abraham and the fear of Isaac had not been close to me, perhaps by now you would have sent me away naked. But God looked kindly on my affliction and the labor of my hands, and he rebuked you yesterday.”
假若我父的天主，亞巴郎的天主，依撒格所敬畏的上主，不同我在一起，你現在定會打發我空手回去；但是天主見到了我的苦況和我的辛苦，在昨夜就下了判決。」
43 Laban answered him: “My daughters and sons, and your flocks, and all that you discern are mine. What can I do to my sons and grandchildren?
拉班回答雅各伯說：「女兒是我的女兒，孩子是我的孩子，羊群是我的羊群，你眼見的這一切都是我的。但是對我的女兒，對她們生的孩子，我今天能作什麼呢﹖
44 Come, therefore, let us enter into a pact, so that it may be a testimony between me and you.”
現在，來，讓我們在你我之間立約，作你我之間的證據。」
45 And so Jacob took a stone, and he set it up as a memorial.
雅各伯遂拿了一塊石頭，立作石柱，
46 And he said to his brothers, “Bring stones.” And they, gathering together stones, made a tomb, and they ate upon it.
然後對自己的親戚說：「你們堆集石頭。」他們便拿了石頭，堆成一堆，就在那堆石頭上吃了飯。
47 And Laban called it, ‘Tomb of Witness,’ and Jacob, ‘Pile of Testimony;’ each of them according to the fitness of his own language.
拉班稱那石堆為「耶加爾、撒哈杜達；」雅各伯稱為「基肋阿得」
48 And Laban said: “This tomb will be a witness between me and you this day.” (And for this reason, its name has been called Gilead, that is, ‘Tomb of Witness.’)
拉班說：「今天這堆石頭在你和我之間作見證。」為此給它起名叫「基肋阿得。」
49 “May the Lord consider and judge between us, when we will have withdrawn from one another.
又叫作「米茲帕，」因為他說：「我們彼此分離後，願上主監視我和你：
50 If you afflict my daughters, and if you bring in other wives over them, no one is a witness of our words except God, who understands beforehand.”
如果你虐待我的女兒，或在我的女兒外，另娶妻室，雖無人在我們中間，但有天主在你我之間作證。」
51 And again he said to Jacob. “Lo, this tomb and the stone that I have set up between me and you,
拉班又對雅各伯說：「看這堆石頭，看我在你我之間所立的石柱：
52 will be a witness. This tomb,” I say, “and the stone, they are for testimony, in case either I cross beyond it going toward you, or you cross beyond it thinking to harm me.
這堆石頭是見證，這石柱是見證，我決不越過這堆石頭去妨害你，你也不要越過這堆石頭和這石柱來妨害我。
53 May the God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” Therefore, Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac.
但願亞巴郎的天主和納曷爾的天主，－－即他們父親的天主，－－在我們之間行裁判! 」雅各伯就指自己的父親依撒格所敬畏的上主起了誓。
54 And after he had immolated sacrifices on the mountain, he called his brothers to eat bread. And when they had eaten, they lodged there.
然後雅各伯在山上宰牲獻祭，叫了自己的親戚來吃飯；吃飯以後就在山上過了夜。
55 In truth, Laban rose up in the night, and he kissed his sons and daughters, and he blessed them. And he returned to his place.
拉班清早起來，與自己的外孫和女兒吻別，祝福了他們，便起身回本鄉去了。
