1 Mose 28
1 Isak frɛɛ Yakob, hyiraa no hyɛɛ no sɛ, “Nware saa Kanaanfoɔ mmaa yi bi da.
And Isaac having called for Jacob, blessed him, and charged him, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of the Chananites.
2 Ka wo ho kɔ Betuel a ɔyɛ wo maame Rebeka agya no nkyɛn wɔ Paddan-Aram, na kɔware wo wɔfa Laban mmammaa no mu baako.
Rise and depart quickly into Mesopotamia, to the house of Bathuel the father of thy mother, and take to thyself thence a wife of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.
3 Otumfoɔ Onyankopɔn no nhyira wo. Ɔmma wʼase nnɔre bebree, na wʼasefoɔ no abɛyɛ ɔman kɛseɛ a mmusuakuo bebree bɛfiri mu aba.
And may my God bless thee, and increase thee, and multiply thee, and thou shalt become gatherings of nations.
4 Onyankopɔn mfa nhyira a ɔde hyiraa Abraham no nhyira wo ne wʼasefoɔ. Ɔmma asase a ɛnnɛ wote so sɛ ɔhɔhoɔ yi a ɛyɛ asase a Onyankopɔn de maa Abraham no nyɛ wo dea.”
And may he give thee the blessing of my father Abraam, even to thee and to thy seed after thee, to inherit the land of thy sojourning, which God gave to Abraam.
5 Sɛdeɛ Isak gyaa ne ba Yakob ɛkwan nie: Yakob kɔɔ Laban a ɔyɛ Aramni Betuel babarima nkyɛn wɔ Paddan-Aram. Na saa Laban yi yɛ Esau ne Yakob maame Rebeka nuabarima.
So Isaac sent away Jacob, and he went into Mesopotamia to Laban the son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebecca the mother of Jacob and Esau.
6 Esau tee sɛ Isak ahyira Yakob, na wagya no kwan ma ɔkɔ Paddan-Aram sɛ ɔnkɔware wɔ hɔ. Ɔhyiraa no no, ɔhyɛɛ no sɛ, “Nware saa Kanaanfoɔ mmaa yi bi da.”
And Esau saw that Isaac blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Mesopotamia of Syria as he blessed him, to take to himself a wife thence, and [that] he charged him, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of the Chananites;
7 Yakob tiee nʼagya ne ne maame afotuo no siim kɔɔ Paddan-Aram.
and [that] Jacob hearkened to his father and his mother, and went to Mesopotamia of Syria.
8 Esau hunuu sɛ nʼagya Isak mpɛ Kanaanfoɔ mmaa asɛm.
And Esau also having seen that the daughters of Chanaan were evil before his father Isaac,
9 Enti, ɔsiim kɔɔ Abraham babarima Ismael nkyɛn, kɔwaree ne babaa Mahalat. Na Mahalat yɛ Nebaiot nuabaa, na ɔyɛ Ismael a ɔno nso yɛ Abraham babarima babaa. Esau waree Mahalat kaa ne yerenom ho.
Esau went to Ismael, and took Maeleth the daughter of Ismael, the son of Abraam, the sister of Nabeoth, a wife in addition to his [other] wives.
10 Yakob firii Beer-Seba de nʼani kyerɛɛ Haran.
And Jacob went forth from the well of the oath, and departed into Charrhan.
11 Ɔduruu baabi na onwunu redwoɔ no, ɔpɛɛ baabi soɛeɛ, ɛfiri sɛ, na adeɛ resa. Ɔfaa ɛboɔ bi wɔ baabi a waduru hɔ de yɛɛ sumiiɛ.
And came to a certain place and slept there, for the sun had gone down; and he took [one] of the stones of the place, and put it at his head, and lay down to sleep in that place,
12 Ɔdaeɛ no, ɔsoo daeɛ bi. Daeɛ no mu, ɔhunuu sɛ atwedeɛ bi si fam a nʼatifi ka ewiem, na Onyankopɔn abɔfoɔ redi so aforosiane.
and dreamed, and behold a ladder fixed on the earth, whose top reached to heaven, and the angels of God ascended and descended on it.
13 Ɔhunuu sɛ Onyankopɔn gyina atwedeɛ no atifi. Onyankopɔn ka kyerɛɛ no sɛ, “Mene Awurade, Abraham Onyankopɔn, ne wʼagya Isak Onyankopɔn. Mede asase a woda so yi bɛma wo ne wʼasefoɔ.
And the Lord stood upon it, and said, I am the God of thy father Abraam, and the God of Isaac; fear not, the land on which thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed.
14 Wʼasefoɔ bɛyɛ sɛ asase so mfuturo, na mobɛtrɛtrɛ akɔ apueeɛ ne atɔeɛ, atifi ne anafoɔ nyinaa. Wo ne wʼasefoɔ mu na wɔfiri bɛhyira ewiase mmusuakuo nyinaa.
And thy seed shall be as the sand of the earth; and it shall spread abroad to the sea, and the south, and the north, and to the east; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed.
15 Yeinom nyinaa akyiri no, mɛka wo ho, na baabiara a wobɛkɔ no, mɛdi wʼakyi, na mɛsane de wo aba saa asase yi so. Merennyaa wo da, kɔsi sɛ ɛbɔ a mahyɛ wo yi nyinaa bɛba mu.”
And behold I am with thee to preserve thee continually in all the way wherein thou shalt go; and I will bring thee back to this land; for I will not desert thee, until I have done all that I have said to thee.
16 Yakob nyaneeɛ no, ɔkaa wɔ ne tirim sɛ, “Ampa ara, sɛɛ na Awurade wɔ saa beaeɛ ha yi, a na mennim!”
And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and said, The Lord is in this place, and I knew it not.
17 Yakob suroeɛ, na ɔkɔɔ so kaa wɔ ne tirim sɛ, “Ɛha yɛ hu papa. Ɛha nyɛ baabiara sɛ Onyankopɔn fie. Ɔsoro ɛpono ano ne ha.”
And he was afraid, and said, How fearful is this place! this is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.
18 Enti, Yakob sɔree anɔpatutuutu maa ɛboɔ a ɔde yɛɛ sumiiɛ no so sii hɔ, hwiee ngo guu so.
And Jacob rose up in the morning, and took the stone he [had] laid there by his head, and he set it up [as] a pillar, and poured oil on the top of it.
19 Ɔtoo beaeɛ no edin Bet-El a aseɛ kyerɛ Onyame fie. Kane no na anka wɔfrɛ saa kuro no Lus.
And he called the name of that place, the House of God; and the name of the city before was Ulam-luz.
20 Afei, Yakob kaa ntam sɛ, “Sɛ Onyankopɔn bɛka me ho, ahwɛ me so wɔ saa akwantuo yi mu, ama me aduane adi, ama me ntoma afira,
And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If the Lord God will be with me, and guard me throughout on this journey, on which I am going, and give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
21 sɛdeɛ ɛbɛyɛ a mɛsane aba mʼagya fie asomdwoeɛ mu a, ɛnneɛ, Awurade bɛyɛ me Onyankopɔn.
and bring me back in safety to the house of my father, then shall the Lord be for a God to me.
22 Saa ɛboɔ a mede asi hɔ sɛ nkaeɛdum yi bɛyɛ Onyankopɔn fie. Biribiara a wo, Onyankopɔn, de bɛma me no, mede mu nkyɛmu edu mu baako bɛma wo.”
And this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be to me a house of God; and of all whatsoever thou shalt give me, I will tithe a tenth for thee.
