Kejadian 28
1 Kemudian Ishak memanggil Yakub, lalu memberkati dia serta memesankan kepadanya, katanya: "Janganlah mengambil isteri dari perempuan Kanaan.
Then Isaac summoned Jacob, and gave him a blessing. He told him, “Do not marry a woman of the Canaan people-group.
2 Bersiaplah, pergilah ke Padan-Aram, ke rumah Betuel, ayah ibumu, dan ambillah dari situ seorang isteri dari anak-anak Laban, saudara ibumu.
Instead, go right away to Paddan-Aram [in northwest Mesopotamia], to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel. Ask one of the daughters of your mother’s brother Laban to marry you.
3 Moga-moga Allah Yang Mahakuasa memberkati engkau, membuat engkau beranak cucu dan membuat engkau menjadi banyak, sehingga engkau menjadi sekumpulan bangsa-bangsa.
I will pray that God Almighty will bless you, and enable you to [get married and] have many descendants, in order that they will become many people-groups.
4 Moga-moga Ia memberikan kepadamu berkat yang untuk Abraham, kepadamu serta kepada keturunanmu, sehingga engkau memiliki negeri ini yang kaudiami sebagai orang asing, yang telah diberikan Allah kepada Abraham."
I also will pray that he will bless you and your descendants by enabling you to possess/seize the land in which you are now living as a foreigner, the land that God promised to give to [my father] Abraham and his descendants.”
5 Demikianlah Ishak melepas Yakub, lalu berangkatlah Yakub ke Padan-Aram, kepada Laban anak Betuel, orang Aram itu, saudara Ribka ibu Yakub dan Esau.
So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-Aram, to live with Rebekah’s brother Laban, the son of Bethuel, who belonged to the Aram people-group.
6 Ketika Esau melihat, bahwa Ishak telah memberkati Yakub dan melepasnya ke Padan-Aram untuk mengambil isteri dari situ--pada waktu ia memberkatinya ia telah memesankan kepada Yakub: "Janganlah ambil isteri dari antara perempuan Kanaan" --
Esau found out that his father Isaac had blessed Jacob and then sent him to Paddan-Aram. He also found out that when he blessed Isaac, he told him, “Do not marry a woman of the Canaan people-group,”
7 dan bahwa Yakub mendengarkan perkataan ayah dan ibunya, dan pergi ke Padan-Aram,
and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother, and had gone to Paddan-Aram.
8 maka Esaupun menyadari, bahwa perempuan Kanaan itu tidak disukai oleh Ishak, ayahnya.
Esau also realized that his father Isaac did not approve of women from the Canaan people-group.
9 Sebab itu ia pergi kepada Ismael dan mengambil Mahalat menjadi isterinya, di samping kedua isterinya yang telah ada. Mahalat adalah anak Ismael anak Abraham, adik Nebayot.
Because of that, Esau went to see his uncle Ishmael, and married Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael. Mahalath was the sister of Nabaioth and the granddaughter of Abraham.
10 Maka Yakub berangkat dari Bersyeba dan pergi ke Haran.
Meanwhile, Jacob left Beersheba and started walking along the road to Haran.
11 Ia sampai di suatu tempat, dan bermalam di situ, karena matahari telah terbenam. Ia mengambil sebuah batu yang terletak di tempat itu dan dipakainya sebagai alas kepala, lalu membaringkan dirinya di tempat itu.
When he arrived at a certain place, he stopped there, because the sun had gone down. He took one of the stones there and put it under his head to use as a pillow. Then he lay down and slept there.
12 Maka bermimpilah ia, di bumi ada didirikan sebuah tangga yang ujungnya sampai di langit, dan tampaklah malaikat-malaikat Allah turun naik di tangga itu.
While he was sleeping, he had a dream, in which he [was surprised to] see a stairway. The bottom of the stairway was on the earth and the top was in the sky. Jacob also saw that God’s angels were going up and down the stairway.
13 Berdirilah TUHAN di sampingnya dan berfirman: "Akulah TUHAN, Allah Abraham, nenekmu, dan Allah Ishak; tanah tempat engkau berbaring ini akan Kuberikan kepadamu dan kepada keturunanmu.
And he [was surprised to] see Yahweh standing at the top of the stairway, saying “I am Yahweh God, whom your grandfather Abraham worshiped, and whom Isaac worships. I will give to you and to your descendants the land on which you are lying.
14 Keturunanmu akan menjadi seperti debu tanah banyaknya, dan engkau akan mengembang ke sebelah timur, barat, utara dan selatan, dan olehmu serta keturunanmu semua kaum di muka bumi akan mendapat berkat.
Your descendants will be as numerous as the particles of dirt that are on the earth, and their territory will be very large. It will extend in all directions, to the east and to the west, to the north and to the south. And people of all people-groups on earth will receive blessings because of [what happens to] you and to your descendants.
15 Sesungguhnya Aku menyertai engkau dan Aku akan melindungi engkau, ke manapun engkau pergi, dan Aku akan membawa engkau kembali ke negeri ini, sebab Aku tidak akan meninggalkan engkau, melainkan tetap melakukan apa yang Kujanjikan kepadamu."
I will help you and protect you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you; I will continue to do for you all that I have promised to do.”
16 Ketika Yakub bangun dari tidurnya, berkatalah ia: "Sesungguhnya TUHAN ada di tempat ini, dan aku tidak mengetahuinya."
[During the night], when Jacob woke up from sleeping, he thought, “Surely Yahweh is in this place, and until now I was not aware of it!”
17 Ia takut dan berkata: "Alangkah dahsyatnya tempat ini. Ini tidak lain dari rumah Allah, ini pintu gerbang sorga."
He was afraid, and he said, “This place is very awesome! This is surely the place where God lives, and this is the entrance to heaven!”
18 Keesokan harinya pagi-pagi Yakub mengambil batu yang dipakainya sebagai alas kepala dan mendirikan itu menjadi tugu dan menuang minyak ke atasnya.
In the morning Jacob got up and took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up on its end to show that the place was a holy place. He poured some olive oil on top of the stone [to dedicate it to God].
19 Ia menamai tempat itu Betel; dahulu nama kota itu Lus.
He named that place Bethel, [which means ‘house of God’.] Previously its name was Luz.
20 Lalu bernazarlah Yakub: "Jika Allah akan menyertai dan akan melindungi aku di jalan yang kutempuh ini, memberikan kepadaku roti untuk dimakan dan pakaian untuk dipakai,
Jacob solemnly promised God, saying, “God, if you will help me and protect me while I am taking this journey, and if you give me enough food to eat and clothes to wear,
21 sehingga aku selamat kembali ke rumah ayahku, maka TUHAN akan menjadi Allahku.
in order that I can later return safely to my father’s house, then you, Yahweh, will be the God that I will worship.
22 Dan batu yang kudirikan sebagai tugu ini akan menjadi rumah Allah. Dari segala sesuatu yang Engkau berikan kepadaku akan selalu kupersembahkan sepersepuluh kepada-Mu."
This stone that I have set up will mark the place where people can worship you. And I will give back to you a tenth of everything that you give to me.”
