Genesis 28
1 And Isaac calls to Jacob, and blesses him, and commands him, and says to him, “You must not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;
依撒格叫了雅各伯來，祝福他，吩咐他說：「你不要娶客納罕女人為妻。
2 rise, go to Padan-Aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel, and take for yourself a wife from there, from the daughters of your mother’s brother Laban;
你應起身往帕丹阿蘭你外祖父貝突耳家去，在那裏娶你舅父拉班的女兒為妻。
3 and God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and you have become an assembly of peoples;
願全能的天主祝福你，使你生育繁殖，成為一大家族。
4 and He gives to you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your seed with you, to cause you to possess the land of your sojournings, which God gave to Abraham.”
願天主將亞巴郎的祝福賜與你和你的後裔，使你承受你所住的地方，即天主賜與亞巴郎的土地作為產業。」
5 And Isaac sends Jacob away, and he goes to Padan-Aram, to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, brother of Rebekah, mother of Jacob and Esau.
依撒格就這樣打發了雅各伯往帕丹阿蘭，投往阿蘭人貝突耳的兒子拉班，即雅各伯和厄撒烏的母親黎貝加的哥哥裏去了。
6 And Esau sees that Isaac has blessed Jacob, and has sent him to Padan-Aram to take to himself from there a wife—in his blessing him that he lays a charge on him, saying, You must not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan—
厄撒烏見依撒烏祝福了雅各伯，打發他到帕丹阿蘭去，在那裏娶妻；祝福他時還吩咐他說：「不要娶客納罕女人為妻。」
7 that Jacob listens to his father and to his mother, and goes to Padan-Aram—
厄撒烏見雅各伯聽從父母的命，往帕丹阿蘭去了，
8 and Esau sees that the daughters of Canaan are evil in the eyes of his father Isaac,
便明白父親依撒格不喜歡客納罕女子。
9 and Esau goes to Ishmael, and takes Mahalath, daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, sister of Nebajoth, to his wives, to himself, for a wife.
所以他去了依市瑪耳那裏，除自己所有的兩個妻子外，又娶了亞巴郎之子依市瑪耳的女兒乃巴約特的妹妹瑪哈拉特為妻。
10 And Jacob goes out from Beer-Sheba, and goes toward Haran,
雅各伯離開貝爾舍巴，往哈蘭去了。
11 and he touches at a [certain] place, and lodges there, for the sun has gone in, and he takes of the stones of the place, and makes [them] his pillows, and lies down in that place.
他來到一個地方，因太陽已落，就在那裏過宿，隨地拿了一塊石頭，放在頭底下，就在那地方躺下睡了。
12 And he dreams, and behold, a ladder set up on the earth, and its head is touching the heavens; and behold, messengers of God are going up and coming down by it;
他作了一夢：見一個梯子直立在地上，梯頂與天相接；天主的使者在梯子上，上去下來。
13 and behold, YHWH is standing on it, and He says, “I [am] YHWH, God of your father Abraham, and God of Isaac; the land on which you are lying, to you I give it, and to your seed;
上主立在梯上說：「我是上主，你父亞巴郎的天主，依撒格的天主。我要將你所躺的地方，賜給你和你的後裔。
14 and your seed has been as the dust of the land, and you have broken forth westward, and eastward, and northward, and southward, and all families of the ground have been blessed in you and in your seed.
你的後裔要多得如地上的灰塵；你要向東西南北擴展，地上的萬民都要因你和你的後裔蒙受祝福。
15 And behold, I [am] with you, and have kept you wherever you go, and have caused you to return to this ground; for I do not leave you until I have surely done that which I have spoken to you.”
看我與你同在；你不論到那裏，我必護佑你，領你回到此地。我決不離棄你，直到我實踐了我對你所許的。」
16 And Jacob awakens out of his sleep and says, “Surely YHWH is in this place, and I did not know”;
雅各伯一覺醒來，說：「上主實在在這地方，我竟不知道。」
17 and he fears and says, “How fearful [is] this place; this is nothing but a house of God, and this a gate of the heavens.”
他又滿懷敬畏地說：「這地方多麼可畏! 這裏不是別處，乃是天主的住所，上天之門。」
18 And Jacob rises early in the morning, and takes the stone which he has made his pillows, and makes it a standing pillar, and pours oil on its top,
雅各伯清早一起來，就把那塊放在頭底下的石頭，立作石柱，在頂上倒了油，
19 and he calls the name of that place Bethel, [house of God, ] and yet, Luz [is] the name of the city at the first.
給那地方起名叫貝特耳，原先那城名叫路次。
20 And Jacob vows a vow, saying, “Seeing God is with me, and has kept me in this way which I am going, and has given to me bread to eat, and a garment to put on—
然後雅各伯許願說：「若是天主與我同在，在我所走的路上護佑我，賜我豐衣足食，
21 when I have turned back in peace to the house of my father, and YHWH has become my God,
使我平安回到父家，上主實在當是我的天主。
22 then this stone which I have made a standing pillar is a house of God, and all that You give to me—tithing I tithe to You.”
我立作石柱的這塊石頭，必要成為天主的住所；凡你賜與我的，我必給你奉獻十分之一。」
