Genesis

雅各准备迎见以扫

1雅各仍旧行路， 神的使者遇见他。

2雅各看见他们就说：「这是 神的军兵」，于是给那地方起名叫玛哈念。

3雅各打发人先往西珥地去，就是以东地，见他哥哥以扫，

4吩咐他们说：「你们对我主以扫说：『你的仆人雅各这样说：我在拉班那里寄居，直到如今。

5我有牛、驴、羊群、仆婢，现在打发人来报告我主，为要在你眼前蒙恩。』」

6所打发的人回到雅各那里，说：「我们到了你哥哥以扫那里，他带着四百人，正迎着你来。」

7雅各就甚惧怕，而且愁烦，便把那与他同在的人口和羊群、牛群、骆驼分做两队，

8说：「以扫若来击杀这一队，剩下的那一队还可以逃避。」

9雅各说：「耶和华—我祖亚伯拉罕的 神，我父亲以撒的 神啊，你曾对我说：『回你本地本族去，我要厚待你。』

10你向仆人所施的一切慈爱和诚实，我一点也不配得；我先前只拿着我的杖过这约旦河，如今我却成了两队了。

11求你救我脱离我哥哥以扫的手；因为我怕他来杀我，连妻子带儿女一同杀了。

12你曾说：『我必定厚待你，使你的后裔如同海边的沙，多得不可胜数。』」

13当夜，雅各在那里住宿，就从他所有的物中拿礼物要送给他哥哥以扫：

14母山羊二百只，公山羊二十只，母绵羊二百只，公绵羊二十只，

15奶崽子的骆驼三十只—各带着崽子，母牛四十只，公牛十只，母驴二十匹，驴驹十匹；

16每样各分一群，交在仆人手下，就对仆人说：「你们要在我前头过去，使群群相离，有空闲的地方」；

17又吩咐尽先走的说：「我哥哥以扫遇见你的时候，问你说：『你是哪家的人？要往哪里去？你前头这些是谁的？』

18你就说：『是你仆人雅各的，是送给我主以扫的礼物；他自己也在我们后边。』」

19又吩咐第二、第三，和一切赶群畜的人说：「你们遇见以扫的时候也要这样对他说；

20并且你们要说：『你仆人雅各在我们后边。』」因雅各心里说：「我借着在我前头去的礼物解他的恨，然后再见他的面，或者他容纳我。」

21于是礼物先过去了；那夜，雅各在队中住宿。

雅各在毗努伊勒摔跤

22他夜间起来，带着两个妻子，两个使女，并十一个儿子，都过了雅博渡口，

23先打发他们过河，又打发所有的都过去，

24只剩下雅各一人。有一个人来和他摔跤，直到黎明。

25那人见自己胜不过他，就将他的大腿窝摸了一把，雅各的大腿窝正在摔跤的时候就扭了。

26那人说：「天黎明了，容我去吧！」雅各说：「你不给我祝福，我就不容你去。」

27那人说：「你名叫什么？」他说：「我名叫雅各。」

28那人说：「你的名不要再叫雅各，要叫以色列；因为你与 神与人较力，都得了胜。」

29雅各问他说：「请将你的名告诉我。」那人说：「何必问我的名？」于是在那里给雅各祝福。

30雅各便给那地方起名叫毗努伊勒，意思说：「我面对面见了 神，我的性命仍得保全。」

31日头刚出来的时候，雅各经过毗努伊勒，他的大腿就瘸了。

32故此，以色列人不吃大腿窝的筋，直到今日，因为那人摸了雅各大腿窝的筋。

1Jacob also went on the journey he had begun: and the angels of God met him.

2And when he saw them, he said: These are the camps of God, and he called the name of that place Mahanaim, that is, Camps.

3And he sent messengers before him to Esau his brother to the land of Seir to the country of Edom:

4And he commanded them, saying: Thus shall ye speak to my lord Esau: Thus saith thy brother Jacob: I have sojourned with Laban, and have been with him until this day.

5I have oxen, and asses, and sheep, and menservants, and womenservants: and now I send a message to my lord, that I may find favour in thy sight.

6And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying: We came to Esau thy brother, and behold he cometh with speed to meet thee with four hundred men.

7Then Jacob was greatly afraid; and in his fear divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and the sheep, and the oxen, and the camels, into two companies,

8Saying: If Esau come to one company and destroy it, the other company that is left shall escape.

9And Jacob said: O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O Lord, who saidst to me: Return to thy land and to the place of thy birth, and I will do well for thee,

10I am not worthy of the least of all thy mercies, and of thy truth which thou hast fulfilled to thy servant. With my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I return with two companies.

11Deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am greatly afraid of him: lest perhaps he come, and kill the mother with the children.

12Thou didst say that thou wouldst do well by me, and multiply my seed like the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

13And when he had slept there that night, he set apart, of the things which he had, presents for his brother Esau.

14Two hundred she goats, twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,

15Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and twenty bulls, twenty she asses, and ten of their foals.

16And he sent them by the hands of his servants, every drove by itself, and he said to his servants: Go before me, and let there be a space between drove and drove.

17And he commanded the first, saying: If thou meet my brother Esau, and he ask thee: Whose art thou? or whither goest thou? or whose are these before thee?

18Thou shalt answer: Thy servant Jacob’s: he hath sent them as a present to my lord Esau: and he cometh after us.

19In like manner he commanded the second and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying: Speak ye the same words to Esau, when ye find him.

20And ye shall add: Thy servant Jacob himself also followeth after us: for he said: I will appease him with the presents that go before, and afterwards I will see him, perhaps he will be gracious to me.

21So the presents went before him, but himself lodged that night in the camp.

22And rising early he took his two wives, and his two handmaids, with his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of Jaboc.

23And when all things were brought over that belonged to him,

24He remained alone: and behold a man wrestled with him till morning.

25And when he saw that he could not overcome him, he touched the sinew of his thigh, and forthwith it shrank.

26And he said to him: Let me go, for it is break of day. He answered: I will not let thee go except thou bless me.

27And he said: What is thy name? He answered: Jacob.

28But he said: Thy name shall not be called Jacob, but Israel: for if thou hast been strong against God, how much more shalt thou prevail against men?

29Jacob asked him, Tell me by what name art thou called? He answered: Why dost thou ask my name? And he blessed him in the same place.

30And Jacob called the name of the place Phanuel, saying: I have seen God face to face, and my soul has been saved.

31And immediately the sun rose upon him, after he was past Phanuel; but he halted on his foot.

32Therefore the children of Israel, unto this day, eat not the sinew, that shrank in Jacob’s thigh: because he touched the sinew of his thigh and it shrank.