Genesis 35
1 [Some time later] God said to Jacob, “Go up to Bethel, and live there. Build an altar to worship me, God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your older brother Esau.”
| خدا به یعقوب فرمود: «حال برخیز و به بیت‌ئیل برو. در آنجا ساکن شو و مذبحی بساز و آن خدایی را که وقتی از دست برادرت عیسو می‌گریختی بر تو ظاهر شد، عبادت نما.» |
2 So Jacob said to his household and to all the others who were with him, “Get rid of the idols you brought from Mesopotamia. Also, bathe yourselves and put on clean clothes.
| آنگاه یعقوب به تمامی اهل خانهٔ خود دستور داد که بُتهایی را که با خود آورده بودند، دور بیندازند و غسل بگیرند و لباسهایشان را عوض کنند. |
3 Then we will get ready and go up to Bethel. There I will make an altar to worship God. He is the one who helped me at the time when I was greatly distressed and afraid, and he has been with me wherever I have gone.”
| او به ایشان گفت: «به بیت‌ئیل می‌رویم تا در آنجا برای خدایی که به هنگام سختی، دعاهایم را اجابت فرمود و هر جا می‌رفتم با من بود، مذبحی بسازم.» |
4 So they gave to Jacob all the idols that they had brought, and all their earrings. Jacob buried them in the ground under the big oak tree that was near Shechem [town].
| پس همگی، بُتهای خود و گوشواره‌هایی را که در گوش داشتند به یعقوب دادند و او آنها را زیر درخت بلوطی در شکیم دفن کرد. |
5 As they prepared to leave there, God caused the people who lived in the cities around them to be extremely afraid of Jacob’s family [PRS], so that they did not pursue and attack them.
| سپس آنها بار دیگر کوچ کردند. و ترس خدا بر تمامی شهرهایی که یعقوب از آنها عبور می‌کرد قرار گرفت تا به وی حمله نکنند. |
6 Jacob and all those who were with him came to Luz, which is now called Bethel, in the Canaan region.
| سرانجام به لوز که همان بیت‌ئیل باشد و در سرزمین کنعان واقع است، رسیدند. |
7 There he built an altar. He named the place El-Bethel, [which means ‘God of Bethel]’, because it was there that God revealed himself to Jacob when he was fleeing from his older brother Esau.
| یعقوب در آنجا مذبحی بنا کرد و آن را مذبح خدای بیت‌ئیل نامید (چون هنگام فرار از دست عیسو، در بیت‌ئیل بود که خدا بر او ظاهر شد.) |
8 Deborah, who had taken care of Isaac’s wife Rebekah when Rebekah was a small girl, was now very old. She died and was buried under an oak tree south of Bethel. So they named that place Allon-Bacuth, [which means ‘oak of weeping’].
| چند روز پس از آن، دبوره دایهٔ پیر ربکا مُرد و او را زیر درخت بلوطی در درهٔ پایین بیت‌ئیل به خاک سپردند. از آن پس، درخت مذکور را بلوط گریه نامیدند. |
9 After Jacob and his family returned from Paddan-Aram/Mesopotamia, while they were still at Bethel, God appeared to Jacob again and blessed him.
| پس از آنکه یعقوب از فَدّان‌اَرام وارد بیت‌ئیل شد، خدا بار دیگر بر وی ظاهر شد و او را برکت داد |
10 God said to him again, “Your name will no longer be Jacob. It will be Israel.” So Jacob was then called ‘Israel’.
| و به او فرمود: «بعد از این دیگر نام تو یعقوب خوانده نشود، بلکه نام تو اسرائیل خواهد بود. |
11 Then God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Produce many children. Your descendants will become many nations, and some of your descendants will be kings.
| من هستم خدای قادر مطلق. بارور و زیاد شو! قومهای زیاد و پادشاهان بسیار از نسل تو پدید خواهند آمد. |
12 The land that I promised to give to [your grandfather] Abraham and [your father] Isaac, I will give to you. I will also give it to your descendants.”
| سرزمینی را که به ابراهیم و اسحاق دادم، به تو و به نسل تو نیز خواهم داد.» |
13 When God finished talking there with Jacob, he left him.
| سپس خدا از نزد او به آسمان صعود کرد. |
14 Jacob set up a large stone at the place where God had talked with him. He poured some wine and some [olive] oil on it to dedicate it to God.
| پس از آن، یعقوب در همان جایی که خدا بر او ظاهر شده بود، ستونی از سنگ بنا کرد و هدیهٔ نوشیدنی برای خداوند بر آن ریخت و آن را با روغن زیتون تدهین کرد. |
15 Jacob named that place Bethel, [which means ‘house of God]’, because God had spoken to him there.
| یعقوب آن محل را بیت‌ئیل (یعنی «خانۀ خدا») نامید، زیرا خدا در آنجا با وی سخن گفته بود. |
16 Jacob and his family left Bethel and traveled south toward Ephrath [town]. When they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to have severe childbirth pains.
| سپس او و خانواده‌اش بیت‌ئیل را ترک گفتند و به سوی افرات رهسپار شدند. اما هنوز به افرات نرسیده بودند که دردِ زایمانِ راحیل شروع شد. |
17 When her pain was the most severe, the (midwife/woman who helped her to give birth) said to Rachel, “Do not be afraid, because now you have given birth to another son!”
| پس از زایمان بسیار سخت، سرانجام قابله گفت: «نترس، یک پسر دیگر به دنیا آوردی!» |
18 But she was dying, and with her last breath she said, “Name him Benoni,” [which means ‘son of my sorrow]’, but his father named him Benjamin, [which means ‘son of my right hand]’.
| ولی راحیل در حال مرگ بود. او در حین جان سپردن، پسرش را بِن اونی نام نهاد، ولی بعد پدرش او را بِنیامین نامید. |
19 After Rachel died, she was buried alongside the road to Ephrath, which is [now called] Bethlehem.
| پس راحیل وفات یافت و او را در نزدیکی راه افرات که بیت‌لحم هم نامیده می‌شد، دفن کردند. |
20 Jacob set up a large stone over her grave, and it is still there, showing where Rachel’s grave is.
| یعقوب روی قبرش ستونی از سنگ بنا کرد که تا به امروز باقی است. |
21 Jacob, whose new name was Israel, continued traveling with his family, and he set up his tents on the south side of the watchtower at Eder [town].
| آنگاه یعقوب از آنجا کوچ کرد و در آن طرف برج عیدر خیمه زد. |
22 While they were living in that area, Jacob’s son Reuben had sex [EUP] with Bilhah, one of his father’s (concubines/female slaves whom he had taken as a secondary wife). Someone told Jacob about it, and it made him very angry. (I will now give you/Here is) a list of Jacob’s twelve sons.
| در همین‌جا بود که رئوبین با بلهه کنیز پدرش همبستر شد و یعقوب از این جریان آگاهی یافت. |
23 The sons of Leah were Reuben, who was Jacob’s oldest son, then Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar and Zebulon.
| یعقوب دوازده پسر داشت که اسامی آنها از این قرار است: پسران لیه: رئوبین (بزرگترین فرزند یعقوب)، شمعون، لاوی، یهودا، یساکار و زبولون. |
24 The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.
| پسران راحیل: یوسف و بنیامین. |
25 The sons of Rachel’s female slave Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali.
| پسران بلهه کنیز راحیل: دان و نفتالی. |
26 The sons of Leah’s female slave Zilpah were Gad and Asher. All those sons of Jacob, except Benjamin, were born while he was living in Paddan-Aram/Mesopotamia.
| جاد و اشیر هم از زلفه، کنیز لیه بودند. همه پسران یعقوب در فَدّان‌اَرام متولد شدند. |
27 Jacob had returned back home to see his father Isaac at Mamre, which is also named Kiriath-Arba, and which is now named Hebron. Isaac’s father Abraham had also lived there.
| سرانجام یعقوب نزد پدر خود اسحاق به قریهٔ اربع واقع در مِلک ممری آمد. (آن قریه را حبرون نیز می‌گویند. حبرون همان جایی است که ابراهیم و اسحاق در آن در غربت به سر می‌بردند.) |
28 Isaac lived until he was 180 years old.
| اسحاق ۱۸۰ سال زندگی کرد. |
29 He was very old when he died, joining his ancestors who had died previously. His sons Esau and Jacob buried his body.
| آنگاه آخرین نفسش را برآورده، در کمال پیری وفات یافت و به اجداد خویش پیوست و پسرانش عیسو و یعقوب او را دفن کردند. |
