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1 ၁ ယာကုပ်သည်ခရီးဆက်လက်သွားစဉ် ဘုရားသခင်၏ ကောင်းကင်တမန်တို့နှင့်တွေ့ဆုံလေ သည်။-
౧యాకోబు తన దారిలో వెళ్తూ ఉండగా దేవదూతలు అతనికి ఎదురయ్యారు.
2 ၂ ကောင်းကင်တမန်တို့ကိုမြင်လျှင်ယာကုပ် က``ဤအရပ်ကားဘုရားသခင်၏တပ်တော် ဖြစ်သည်'' ဟုဆို၍၎င်းကိုမဟာနိမ်ဟုမှည့် ခေါ်လေသည်။
౨యాకోబు వారిని చూసి “ఇది దేవుని సేన” అని చెప్పి ఆ చోటికి మహనయీము అని పేరు పెట్టాడు.
3 ၃ ယာကုပ်သည်ဧဒုံပြည်တွင်ရှိသောသူ၏အစ် ကိုဧသောထံသို့ စေတမန်များကိုရှေ့ပြေး အဖြစ်စေလွှတ်လေ၏။-
౩యాకోబు ఎదోము ప్రాంతంలో, అంటే శేయీరు దేశంలో ఉన్న తన సోదరుడు ఏశావు దగ్గరికి తనకు ముందుగా దూతలను పంపి,
4 ၄ ထိုစေတမန်တို့အား``ကိုယ်တော်၏အစေခံ ယာကုပ်က`ကျွန်ုပ်သည်လာဗန်နှင့်အတူနေ ထိုင်ပြီးယခုမှပြန်ခဲ့ရပါသည်။-
౪“మీరు నా ప్రభువైన ఏశావుతో, ‘ఇంతవరకూ నేను లాబాను దగ్గర నివసించాను.
5 ၅ ကျွန်ုပ်တွင်နွား၊ မြည်း၊ သိုး၊ ဆိတ်နှင့်ကျွန်များရှိ ပါသည်။ ကိုယ်တော်ထံ၌ကျွန်ုပ်မျက်နှာသာရ နိုင်မည်ဟုမျှော်လင့်လျက် ဤသို့သတင်းပို့ လျှောက်ထားပါသည်' ဟုပြောလော့'' ဟုမှာ ကြားလိုက်လေသည်။
౫నాకు పశువులూ గాడిదలూ మందలూ దాసదాసీజనమూ ఉన్నారు. నీ అనుగ్రహం నాపైనఉండాలని నా ప్రభువుకు తెలపడానికి పంపాను అని నీ సేవకుడైన యాకోబు అన్నాడు’ అని చెప్పండి” అని వారికి ఆజ్ఞాపించాడు.
6 ၆ စေတမန်တို့သည်ယာကုပ်ထံသို့ပြန်ရောက် လာ၍ ``ကျွန်ုပ်တို့သည်ကိုယ်တော်၏အစ်ကို ဧသောထံသို့ရောက်ခဲ့ပါသည်။ သူသည်လည်း ကိုယ်တော်နှင့်တွေ့ဆုံရန်လာနေပါပြီ။ သူ့ ထံ၌လူအင်အားလေးရာရှိပါသည်'' ဟု ပြန်ကြားကြသည်။-
౬ఆ దూతలు యాకోబు దగ్గరికి తిరిగివచ్చి “మేము నీ సోదరుడైన ఏశావు దగ్గరికి వెళ్ళాం, అతడు నాలుగు వందల మందితో నీకు ఎదురు వస్తున్నాడు” అని చెప్పారు.
7 ၇ ထိုအခါယာကုပ်သည်အလွန်ကြောက်ရွံ့၍ စိတ်ပူပန်သဖြင့် သူနှင့်အတူရှိသောသူတို့ ကိုလည်းကောင်း၊ သိုး၊ ဆိတ်၊ နွားနှင့်ကုလားအုတ် တို့ကိုလည်းကောင်းနှစ်စုခွဲ၍ထားလိုက်၏။-
౭అప్పుడు యాకోబు చాలా భయపడి, హతాశుడై,
8 ၈ အဘယ်ကြောင့်ဆိုသော်သူက``ဧသောရောက် လာ၍ပထမအစုကိုတိုက်ခိုက်သည်ရှိသော် ကျန်တစ်စုကားလွတ်မြောက်နိုင်လိမ့်မည်'' ဟု တွေးတောမိသောကြောင့်တည်း။
౮“ఏశావు ఒక గుంపు మీదికి వచ్చి దాన్ని హతం చేస్తే మిగిలిన గుంపు తప్పించుకుని పోవచ్చు” అనుకుని, తనతో ఉన్న ప్రజలనూ మందలనూ పశువులనూ ఒంటెలనూ రెండు గుంపులు చేశాడు.
9 ၉ ထိုနောက်ယာကုပ်က``အကျွန်ုပ်၏အဘိုး အာဗြဟံနှင့်အကျွန်ုပ်၏ဖခင်ဣဇာက်တို့ ၏ဘုရားသခင်၊ အကျွန်ုပ်၏ဆုတောင်းသံကို နားညောင်းတော်မူပါ။ ကိုယ်တော်ရှင်က`သင်၏ ပြည်၊ သင်၏ဆွေမျိုးသားချင်းတို့ထံသို့ပြန် လော့။ ငါသည်သင့်ကိုကြီးပွားစေမည်' ဟု မိန့်တော်မူပါ၏။-
౯అప్పుడు యాకోబు “నా తండ్రి అబ్రాహాము దేవా, నా తండ్రి ఇస్సాకు దేవా, ‘నీ దేశానికీ, నీ బంధువుల దగ్గరికీ తిరిగి వెళ్ళు, నీకు మేలు చేస్తాను’ అని నాతో చెప్పిన యెహోవా,
10 ၁၀ ကိုယ်တော်အမြဲထားတော်မူသောကရုဏာ တော်နှင့်ကိုယ်တော်၏ကျွန်သည်မထိုက်တန် ပါ။ အကျွန်ုပ်သည်ယော်ဒန်မြစ်ကိုဖြတ်ကူး စဉ်အခါက အကျွန်ုပ်၌လက်ကိုင်တောင်ဝှေး တစ်ချောင်းသာပါသွားသော်လည်း ယခုမှာ မူဤလူစုနှစ်စုပါလျက်ပြန်လာခဲ့ရ ပါသည်။-
౧౦నువ్వు నీ సేవకుడికి చేసిన ఉపకారాలన్నిటికీ నమ్మకత్వమంతటికీ నేను పాత్రుణ్ణి కాను. ఎందుకంటే, కేవలం ఈ నా చేతి కర్రతో ఈ యొర్దాను దాటాను. ఇప్పుడు నేను రెండు గుంపులయ్యాను.
11 ၁၁ အကျွန်ုပ်၏အစ်ကိုဧသော၏လက်မှအကျွန်ုပ် အားကယ်တင်ရန်တောင်းလျှောက်ပါ၏။ သူ သည်မိန်းမနှင့်ကလေးများအပါအဝင် အကျွန်ုပ်တို့အားလုံးအားတိုက်ခိုက်ဖျက် ဆီးမည်ကိုအကျွန်ုပ်စိုးရိမ်ကြောက်ရွံ့ပါ၏။-
౧౧నా సోదరుడు ఏశావు చేతి నుండి దయచేసి నన్ను తప్పించు. అతడు వచ్చి పిల్లలనీ వారి తల్లులనూ నన్నూ చంపుతాడేమో అని భయపడుతున్నాను.
12 ၁၂ ကိုယ်တော်က`သင့်ကိုကြီးပွားစေမည်။ သင်၏ အဆက်အနွယ်များကိုပင်လယ်ကမ်းခြေရှိ သဲပွင့်များကဲ့သို့ မရေမတွက်နိုင်အောင်များ ပြားစေမည်' ဟူသောကတိတော်ကိုသတိရ တော်မူပါ'' ဟုတောင်းလျှောက်လေသည်။
౧౨నాతో, ‘నేను నీకు తోడై తప్పకుండా మేలు చేస్తూ వారి సంఖ్యను బట్టి లెక్కించలేని సముద్రపు ఇసకలాగా నీ సంతానాన్ని విస్తరింపజేస్తాను’ అని నువ్వు సెలవిచ్చావు కదా” అన్నాడు.
13 ၁၃ ယာကုပ်သည်ထိုအရပ်တွင်တစ်ညတည်းခို ပြီးနောက် အစ်ကိုဧသောအားလက်ဆောင်ပေး ရန် မိမိ၏တိရစ္ဆာန်အုပ်ထဲမှဆိတ်မနှစ်ရာ နှင့်ဆိတ်ထီးနှစ်ဆယ်၊ သိုးမနှစ်ရာနှင့်သိုး ထီးနှစ်ဆယ်၊ နို့စားကုလားအုတ်မသုံးဆယ် နှင့်သားကောင်ငယ်များ၊ နွားမလေးဆယ်နှင့် နွားထီးဆယ်ကောင်၊ မြည်းမနှစ်ဆယ်နှင့် မြည်းထီးဆယ်ကောင်တို့ကိုရွေးယူလေ၏။-
౧౩అతడు అక్కడ ఆ రాత్రి గడిపి తాను సంపాదించిన దానిలో తన అన్న ఏశావు కోసం ఒక కానుకను సిద్ధం చేశాడు.
౧౪అతడు రెండువందల మేకలూ ఇరవై మేక పోతులూ రెండువందల గొర్రెలూ ఇరవై పొట్టేళ్ళూ
౧౫ముప్ఫై పాడి ఒంటెలూ వాటి పిల్లలూ నలభై ఆవులూ పది ఆబోతులూ ఇరవై ఆడ గాడిదలూ పది గాడిద పిల్లలూ తీసుకు మందమందను వేరు వేరుగా ఉంచాడు.
16 ၁၆ ထိုတိရစ္ဆာန်များကိုအုပ်လိုက်ခွဲပြီးလျှင် တစ် အုပ်စီကိုအစေခံတစ်ယောက်ကျအုပ်ထိန်း စေ၏။ ထိုနောက်အစေခံတို့အား``သင်တို့သည် တစ်အုပ်နှင့်တစ်အုပ်ရှေ့နောက်ခြား၍ငါ့ရှေ့ မှသွားကြလော့'' ဟုမှာကြားလေသည်။-
౧౬వాటిని అతడు తన దాసులకు అప్పగించి “మీరు మంద మందకు మధ్య ఖాళీ ఉంచి నాకంటే ముందుగా నడవండి” అని వారితో చెప్పాడు.
17 ၁၇ ရှေ့ဆုံးမှသွားရသောအစေခံအား``ငါ၏ အစ်ကိုဧသောကသင့်ကိုတွေ့၍`သင်၏သခင် ကားမည်သူနည်း၊ မည်သည့်အရပ်သို့သွား မည်နည်း။ သင့်ရှေ့၌ရှိသောတိရစ္ဆာန်တို့ကို မည်သူပိုင်သနည်း' ဟုမေးလျှင်၊-
౧౭వారిలో మొదటివాడితో “నా సోదరుడు ఏశావు నీకు ఎదురుగా వచ్చి, ‘నీవెవరి వాడివి? ఎక్కడికి వెళ్తున్నావు? నీ ముందు ఉన్నవి ఎవరివి?’ అని నిన్ను అడిగితే
18 ၁၈ `ကိုယ်တော်၏အစေခံယာကုပ်ပိုင်ပါသည်။ သခင်ဧသောအားဆက်သလိုက်သောလက် ဆောင်များဖြစ်ပါသည်။ ယာကုပ်ကိုယ်တိုင် အကျွန်ုပ်တို့နောက်မှလိုက်ပါလာပါသည်' ဟူ၍ညွှန်ကြားလေသည်။-
౧౮నువ్వు, ‘ఇవి నీ సేవకుడైన యాకోబువి, ఇది నా ప్రభువైన ఏశావు కోసం అతడు పంపిన కానుక. అదిగో అతడు మా వెనక వస్తున్నాడు’ అని చెప్పు” అని ఆజ్ఞాపించాడు.
19 ၁၉ ထိုနည်းတူဒုတိယအစေခံ၊ တတိယ အစေခံမှစ၍ တိရစ္ဆာန်အုပ်တို့ကိုအုပ် ထိန်းရသူအပေါင်းတို့အား၊-
౧౯“నేను ముందుగా పంపుతున్న కానుకల వలన అతనిని శాంతింపజేసిన తరువాత నేను అతనికి కనబడతాను. అప్పుడతడు ఒకవేళ నా పైన దయ చూపుతాడేమో.
20 ၂၀ သင်တို့သည်ဧသောနှင့်တွေ့သောအခါ`ကိုယ်တော် ၏အစေခံယာကုပ်သည်ကျွန်ုပ်တို့နောက်မှလိုက် ပါလာပါသည်' ဟုပြောရမည်'' ဟူ၍မှာကြား ၏။ ယာကုပ်က``ယခုပေးလိုက်သောလက်ဆောင် များအားဖြင့် အစ်ကို၏စိတ်ကိုပြေစေ၍သူ နှင့်တွေ့ဆုံရသောအခါ ငါ့အပြစ်ကိုခွင့် လွှတ်ကောင်းခွင့်လွှတ်ပေလိမ့်မည်'' ဟု စိတ်ကူးမိလေ၏။-
౨౦కాబట్టి మీరు ఏశావును చూసి, ‘ఇదిగో నీ సేవకుడైన యాకోబు మా వెనకాలే వస్తున్నాడు’ అని చెప్పాలి” అని వారికి చెప్పాడు. రెండవ గుంపుకు, మూడవ గుంపుకు, మందల వెంబడి వెళ్ళిన వారికందరికీ అతడు ఇదే విధంగా ఆజ్ఞాపించాడు.
21 ၂၁ သူသည်လက်ဆောင်များကိုကြိုတင်ပို့ပြီး နောက်ထိုညတွင်စခန်း၌အိပ်လေ၏။
౨౧అతడు ఆ కానుకను తనకు ముందుగా పంపి తాను గుంపులో ఆ రాత్రి నిలిచిపోయాడు.
22 ၂၂ ထိုညချင်းတွင်းယာကုပ်သည်ထ၍မယားနှစ် ယောက်၊ မယားငယ်နှစ်ယောက်၊ သားသမီးတစ် ဆယ့်တစ်ယောက်တို့ကိုခေါ်ဆောင်လျက်ယဗ္ဗုတ် မြစ်ကိုဖြတ်ကူးစေ၏။-
౨౨ఆ రాత్రి అతడు లేచి తన ఇద్దరు భార్యలనూ తన ఇద్దరు దాసీలనీ తన పదకొండు మంది పిల్లలనూ తీసుకు యబ్బోకు రేవు దాటిపోయాడు.
23 ၂၃ သားမယားတို့နှင့်အတူပိုင်သမျှဥစ္စာပစ္စည်း တို့ကိုတစ်ဖက်ကမ်းသို့ပို့လေ၏။-
౨౩యాకోబు వారిని ఆ యేరు దాటించి తనకు కలిగిందంతా వారితో పంపేశాడు.
24 ၂၄ ယာကုပ်ကမူတစ်ယောက်တည်းနေရစ်ခဲ့လေ သည်။ ထိုအခါလူတစ်ယောက်သည်မိုးလင်းအံ့ဆဲ ဆဲတိုင်အောင်သူနှင့်နပန်းလုံးလေ၏။-
౨౪యాకోబు ఒక్కడు మిగిలి పోయాడు. ఒక మనిషి తెల్లవారేదాకా అతనితో పెనుగులాడాడు.
25 ၂၅ ထိုသူသည်မနိုင်မှန်းသိသောအခါယာကုပ် ၏တင်ပါးကိုထိုးသဖြင့်အဆစ်ပြုတ်လေ၏။-
౨౫తాను గెలవకపోవడం చూసి అతడు యాకోబు తొడ గూటి మీద కొట్టాడు. అప్పుడు ఆయనతో పెనుగులాడ్డం వలన యాకోబు తొడ గూడు జారిపోయింది.
26 ၂၆ ထိုသူက``ငါ့ကိုလွှတ်ပါ။ မိုးလင်းလုပြီ'' ဟုဆိုလေ၏။ ယာကုပ်က``အကျွန်ုပ်ကိုကောင်းချီးပေးမှလွှတ် မည်'' ဟုပြော၏။
౨౬ఆయన “తెల్లవారుతున్నది, నన్ను పోనియ్యి” అన్నప్పుడు, యాకోబు “నువ్వు నన్ను ఆశీర్వదిస్తేనే గాని నిన్ను పోనియ్యను” అన్నాడు.
27 ၂၇ ထိုသူကလည်း``သင်၏နာမည်ကားအဘယ် နည်း'' ဟုမေး၏။ ``ယာကုပ်'' ဟုပြန်ဖြေ၏။
౨౭ఆయన “నీ పేరేమిటి?” అని అడిగాడు. అతడు “యాకోబు” అని చెప్పాడు.
28 ၂၈ ထိုသူက``နောင်တွင်သင်၏နာမည်ကို`ယာကုပ်' ဟူ ၍မခေါ်စေရ။ သင်သည်ဘုရားနှင့်သော်လည်း ကောင်း၊ လူနှင့်သော်လည်းကောင်းဆိုင်ပြိုင်၍အနိုင် ရခဲ့သောကြောင့်သင်၏နာမည်မှာ`ဣသရေလ' ဟူ၍ဖြစ်ရမည်'' ဟုဆိုလေ၏။
౨౮అప్పుడాయన “నువ్వు దేవునితో, మనుషులతో పోరాడి గెలిచావు. కాబట్టి ఇక ముందు నీ పేరు ఇశ్రాయేలు, యాకోబు కాదు” అని చెప్పాడు.
29 ၂၉ ယာကုပ်က``ကိုယ်တော်၏နာမကိုသိပါရစေ'' ဟုလျှောက်လေ၏။ ထိုသူက``သင်သည်ငါ၏နာမကိုအဘယ် ကြောင့်သိလိုသနည်း'' ဟုမေး၏။ ထိုနောက် ယာကုပ်ကိုကောင်းချီးပေးလေ၏။
౨౯అప్పుడు యాకోబు “దయచేసి నీ పేరు చెప్పు” అన్నాడు. అందుకాయన “నా పేరు ఎందుకు అడుగుతావు?” అని చెప్పి అక్కడ అతణ్ణి ఆశీర్వదించాడు.
30 ၃၀ ယာကုပ်က``ငါသည်ဘုရားသခင်ကိုမျက်နှာ ချင်းဆိုင်ဖူးတွေ့ရသော်လည်း အသက်ချမ်း သာရလျက်ရှိသေး၏'' ဟုဆို၍ထိုအရပ် ကိုပေနွေလဟုသမုတ်လေ၏။-
౩౦యాకోబు “నేను ముఖాముఖిగా దేవుణ్ణి చూశాను. అయినా నా ప్రాణం నిలిచింది” అని ఆ స్థలానికి “పెనూయేలు” అని పేరు పెట్టాడు.
31 ၃၁ ယာကုပ်သည်ပေနွေလအရပ်မှထွက်ခွာလာ သောအခါနေထွက်ပြီဖြစ်၏။ သူသည်ခါးဆစ် ဒဏ်ရာကြောင့်ထော့နဲ့ကျိုးနင်းသွားရလေသည်။-
౩౧అతడు పెనూయేలు నుండి బయలుదేరి నప్పుడు సూర్యోదయం అయ్యింది. అతడు తొడ కుంటుతూ నడిచాడు.
32 ၃၂ ယာကုပ်သည်တင်ပါးကြွက်သားတွင်အထိုး ခံခဲ့ရသည်ဖြစ်သောကြောင့် ယနေ့ထက်တိုင် ဣသရေလအမျိုးသားတို့သည်တင်ပါး ကြွက်သားကိုမစားကြချေ။
౩౨ఆయన యాకోబు తొడగూటి మీది తుంటినరంపై కొట్టి గూడు వసిలేలా చేసాడు కాబట్టి ఈనాటి వరకూ ఇశ్రాయేలీయులు తొడ గూటి మీద ఉన్న తుంటినరాన్ని తినరు.