< Genesis 33 >
1 And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.
雅各举目观看,见以扫来了,后头跟着四百人,他就把孩子们分开交给利亚、拉结,和两个使女,
2 And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.
并且叫两个使女和她们的孩子在前头,利亚和她的孩子在后头,拉结和约瑟在尽后头。
3 And he himself passed on before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
他自己在他们前头过去,一连七次俯伏在地才就近他哥哥。
4 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him; and they wept.
以扫跑来迎接他,将他抱住,又搂着他的颈项,与他亲嘴,两个人就哭了。
5 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are these with thee? And he said, The children whom God hath graciously given thy servant.
以扫举目看见妇人孩子,就说:“这些和你同行的是谁呢?”雅各说:“这些孩子是 神施恩给你的仆人的。”
6 Then came the handmaids near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves.
于是两个使女和她们的孩子前来下拜;
7 And Leah also with her children came near, and they bowed themselves; and after that came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves.
利亚和她的孩子也前来下拜;随后约瑟和拉结也前来下拜。
8 And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I have met? And he said, To find grace in the eyes of my lord.
以扫说:“我所遇见的这些群畜是什么意思呢?”雅各说:“是要在我主面前蒙恩的。”
9 And Esau said, I have enough, my brother, keep unto thyself what thou hast.
以扫说:“兄弟啊,我的已经够了,你的仍归你吧!”
10 And Jacob said, This must not be, I pray thee; if I have but found grace in thy eyes, then do thou receive my present at my hand; since I have seen thy face, it is as though I had seen the face of an angel, and because thou hast received me kindly.
雅各说:“不然,我若在你眼前蒙恩,就求你从我手里收下这礼物;因为我见了你的面,如同见了 神的面,并且你容纳了我。
11 Take, I pray thee, my present that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have a plenty of all. And he urged him, and he took it.
求你收下我带来给你的礼物;因为 神恩待我,使我充足。”雅各再三地求他,他才收下了。
12 And he said, Let us depart, and move farther, and I will travel near thee.
以扫说:“我们可以起身前往,我在你前头走。”
13 And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are a charge on me: and if they should overdrive them one day, all the flock would die.
雅各对他说:“我主知道孩子们年幼娇嫩,牛羊也正在乳养的时候,若是催赶一天,群畜都必死了。
14 Let my lord, I pray thee, pass on before his servant: and I will lead on slowly, according to the cattle that goeth before me and the children may be able to travel, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.
求我主在仆人前头走,我要量着在我面前群畜和孩子的力量慢慢地前行,直走到西珥我主那里。”
15 And Esau said, Let me, I pray thee, leave with thee some of the people that are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me only final grace in the eyes of my lord.
以扫说:“容我把跟随我的人留几个在你这里。”雅各说:“何必呢?只要在我主眼前蒙恩就是了。”
16 So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.
于是,以扫当日起行,回往西珥去了。
17 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth and built himself a house, and for his cattle he made booths; therefore he called the name of the place Succoth.
雅各就往疏割去,在那里为自己盖造房屋,又为牲畜搭棚;因此那地方名叫疏割。
18 And Jacob came in good health to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-aram; and he encamped before the city.
雅各从巴旦·亚兰回来的时候,平平安安地到了迦南地的示剑城,在城东支搭帐棚,
19 And he bought the parcel of the field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Chamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred kessitah.
就用一百块银子向示剑的父亲、哈抹的子孙买了支帐棚的那块地,
20 And he erected there an altar, and called it, El-Elohe-Yisrael.
在那里筑了一座坛,起名叫伊利·伊罗伊·以色列。