Genesis 31
1 And he hears the words of Laban’s sons, saying, “Jacob has taken all that our father has; indeed, from that which our father has, he has made all this glory”;
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 and Jacob sees the face of Laban, and behold, it is not with him as before.
雅各伯也注意了拉班對自己的臉色不如先前。
3 And YHWH says to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers, and to your family, and I am 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 And Jacob sends and calls for Rachel and for Leah to the field to his flock;
雅各伯就派人叫辣黑耳和肋阿來到放羊的田間，
5 and says to them, “I am beholding your father’s face—that it is not toward me as before, and 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 have known that with all my power I have served your father,
你們清楚知道，我是全力服事了你們的父親；
7 and your father has played on me, and has changed my hire ten times; and God has not permitted him to do evil with 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 If he says thus: The speckled are your hire, then all the flock bore speckled ones; and if he says thus: The striped are your hire, then all the flock bore striped;
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 God takes away the substance of your father, and gives to me.
天主這樣將你們父親的牲畜奪來了給我。
10 And it comes to pass at the time of the flock conceiving, that I lift up my eyes and see in a dream, and behold, the male goats, which are going up on the flock, [are] striped, speckled, and spotted;
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 Messenger of God says to me in the dream, Jacob, and I say, 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 says, Now lift up your eyes and see [that] all the male goats which are going up on the flock [are] striped, speckled, and spotted, for I have seen all that Laban is doing 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 have anointed a standing pillar, where you have vowed a vow to me; now, arise, go out from this land, and return to the land of your birth.”
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 answers—Leah also—and says to him, “Have we yet a portion and inheritance in the house of our father?
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 Have we not been reckoned strangers to him? For he has sold us, and he also utterly consumes our money;
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 for all the wealth which God has taken away from our father, it [is] ours, and our children’s; and now, all that God has said to you—do.”
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 Jacob rises, and lifts up his sons and his wives on the camels,
雅各伯遂立即叫自己的兒女和妻子騎上駱駝，
18 and leads all his livestock, and all his substance which he has acquired, the livestock of his getting, which he has acquired in Padan-Aram, to go to his father Isaac, to 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 And Laban has gone to shear his flock, and Rachel steals the teraphim which her father has;
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 deceives the heart of Laban the Aramean, because he has not declared to him that he is fleeing;
雅各伯隱瞞了阿蘭人拉班，沒有告訴拉班他將逃走，
21 and he flees, he and all that he has, and rises, and passes over the River, and sets his face [toward] the Mount of 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 And it is told to Laban on the third day that Jacob has fled,
第三天拉班得報雅各伯偷跑了，
23 and he takes his brothers with him, and pursues after him a journey of seven days, and overtakes him in the Mount of 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 God comes to Laban the Aramean in a dream of the night and says to him, “Take heed to yourself lest you speak with Jacob from good to evil.”
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 Laban overtakes Jacob; and Jacob has fixed his tent in the mountain; and Laban with his brothers have fixed [theirs] in the Mount of 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 Laban says to Jacob, “What have you done that you deceive my heart, and lead away my daughters as 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 have you hidden yourself to flee, and deceive me, and have not declared to me, and I send you away with joy and with songs, with tambourine and with harp,
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 and have not permitted me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now you have acted foolishly in doing [so];
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 is to God to do evil with you, but the God of your father last night has spoken to me, saying, Take heed to yourself from speaking with Jacob from good to evil.
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 And now, you have certainly gone, because you have been very desirous for the house of your father; 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 And Jacob answers and says to Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I said, Lest you violently take away your daughters from me;
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 with whomsoever you find your gods—he must not live; before our brothers discern for yourself what [is] with me, and take to yourself”: and Jacob has not known that Rachel has stolen them.
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 Laban goes into the tent of Jacob, and into the tent of Leah, and into the tent of the two handmaidens, and has not found; and he goes out from the tent of Leah, and goes into 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 And Rachel has taken the teraphim, and puts them in the furniture of the camel, and sits on them; and Laban feels all the tent, and has not found;
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 and she says to her father, “Let it not be displeasing in the eyes of my lord that I am not able to rise at your presence, for the way of women [is] on me”; and he searches, and has not found the teraphim.
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 it is displeasing to Jacob, and he strives with Laban; and Jacob answers and says to Laban, “What [is] my transgression? What my sin, that you have burned after 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 For you have felt all my vessels: what have you found of all the vessels of your house? Set here before my brothers, and your brothers, and they decide between us both.
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 These twenty years I [am] with you: your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, and the rams of your flock I have not eaten;
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 the torn I have not brought to you—I repay it—from my hand you seek it; I have been deceived by day, and I have been deceived by night;
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 I have been [thus]: drought has consumed me in the day, and frost by night, and my sleep wanders 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 This [is] to me twenty years in your house: I have served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock; and you change my hire 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 unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been for me, surely now you had sent me away empty; God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and reproves last night.”
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 And Laban answers and says to Jacob, “The daughters [are] my daughters, and the sons my sons, and the flock my flock, and all that you are seeing [is] mine; and to my daughters—what do I to these today, or to their sons whom they have born?
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 And now, come, let us make a covenant, I and you, and it has been for a witness 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 Jacob takes a stone, and lifts it up [for] a standing pillar;
雅各伯遂拿了一塊石頭，立作石柱，
46 and Jacob says to his brothers, “Gather stones,” and they take stones, and make a heap; and they eat there on the heap;
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 calls it Jegar-Sahadutha; and Jacob has called it Galeed.
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 says, “This heap [is] witness between me and you today”; therefore has he called its name Galeed;
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 Mizpah also, for he said, “YHWH watches between me and you, for we are hidden 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, or take wives beside my daughters—there is no man with us—see, God [is] witness between me and you.”
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 Laban says to Jacob, “Behold, this heap, and behold, the standing pillar which I have cast 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 this heap [is] witness, and the standing pillar [is] witness, that I do not pass over this heap to you, and that you do not pass over this heap and this standing pillar to me—for evil;
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 the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, judges between us—the God of their father,” and Jacob swears 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 Jacob sacrifices a sacrifice on the mountain, and calls to his brothers to eat bread, and they eat bread, and lodge on the mountain;
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 and Laban rises early in the morning, and kisses his sons and his daughters, and blesses them; and Laban goes on, and turns back 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。
