Genesis 31

1 Now Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying, “Jacob has taken away all that belonged to our father and built all this wealth at our father’s expense.”

1 雅各听见拉班的儿子们说：“雅各夺去了我们父亲的一切！他的财富都是从我们父亲那里得来的。”

2 And Jacob saw from the countenance of Laban that his attitude toward him had changed.

2 雅各发觉拉班对他的态度不如从前了。

3 Then the LORD said to Jacob, “Go back to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.”

3 这时，耶和华对雅各说：“回到你的家乡和亲族那里吧！我必与你同在。”

4 So Jacob sent word and called Rachel and Leah to the field where his flocks were,

4 于是，雅各就派人把拉结和利亚叫到放羊的地方，

5 and he told them, “I can see from your father’s countenance that his attitude toward me has changed; but the God of my father has been with me.

5 对她们说：“我感到你们父亲对我不如从前了，但我父亲的上帝常与我同在。

6 You know that I have served your father with all my strength.

6 你们知道我是怎样尽心尽力地替你们父亲工作，

7 And although he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, God has not allowed him to harm me.

7 他却欺骗我，把我的工酬更改了十次。然而，上帝不让他苦待我。

8 If he said, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ then the whole flock bore speckled offspring. If he said, ‘The streaked will be your wages,’ then the whole flock bore streaked offspring.

8 如果他说把有斑点的羊给我当酬劳，羊群生的就都是有斑点的；如果他说把有条纹的给我，羊群生的就都是有条纹的。

9 Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock and given them to me.

9 上帝就这样把你们父亲的牲畜夺过来给了我。

10 When the flocks were breeding, I saw in a dream that the streaked, spotted, and speckled males were mating with the females.

10 “在羊群交配的季节，我在梦中抬头看见和母羊交配的公羊都是有条纹或有斑点的。

11 In that dream the angel of God said to me, ‘Jacob!’ And I replied, ‘Here I am.’

11 在梦中，上帝的天使叫我，我说，‘我在这里。’

12 ‘Look up,’ he said, ‘and see that all the males that are mating with the flock are streaked, spotted, or speckled; for I have seen all that Laban has done to you.

12 他说，‘拉班对你的所作所为，我都看见了。现在你抬头看看，与母羊交配的公羊都是有条纹或有斑点的。

13 I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar and made a solemn vow to Me. Now get up, leave this land at once, and return to your native land.’”

13 我就是你在伯特利遇见的上帝。你在那里用油浇过柱子，向我许过愿。现在，你马上离开这里，回到你的家乡。’”

14 And Rachel and Leah replied, “Do we have any portion or inheritance left in our father’s house?

14 拉结和利亚说：“父亲的家产没有我们的份儿，

15 Are we not regarded by him as outsiders? Not only has he sold us, but he has certainly squandered what was paid for us.

15 我们早就被当作外人了，他卖了我们，把我们的身价全部吞了。

16 Surely all the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So do whatever God has told you.”

16 上帝从我们父亲那里夺过来的一切财产，理当属于我们和我们的儿女。现在你只管照上帝的吩咐做吧！”

17 Then Jacob got up and put his children and his wives on camels,

17 雅各便起来让儿女和妻子都骑上骆驼，

18 and he drove all his livestock before him, along with all the possessions he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land in Canaan.

18 带着他在巴旦·亚兰得到的所有牲畜和财物，启程去迦南他父亲以撒那里。

19 Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.

19 那时拉班正在外面剪羊毛，拉结偷了父亲家中的神像。

20 Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was running away.

20 雅各不辞而别，背着亚兰人拉班偷偷地跑了。

21 So he fled with all his possessions, crossed the Euphrates, and headed for the hill country of Gilead.

21 他带着所有的一切渡过幼发拉底河，逃往基列山区。

22 On the third day Laban was informed that Jacob had fled.

22 到了第三天，拉班才得知雅各逃走了。

23 So he took his relatives with him, pursued Jacob for seven days, and overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.

23 于是，他带着族人去追赶，追了七天，在基列山区追上了雅各。

24 But that night God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream and warned him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”

24 当晚，上帝在梦中对亚兰人拉班说：“你要当心，不可对雅各多说什么。”

25 Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and his relatives camped there as well.

25 拉班追上了雅各，那时雅各在基列山搭起帐篷，拉班和他的族人也在那里搭起帐篷。

26 Then Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You have deceived me and carried off my daughters like captives of war!

26 拉班对雅各说：“你做的是什么？你欺瞒我，把我的女儿像战俘一样带走。

27 Why did you run away secretly and deceive me, without even telling me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and harps.

27 你为什么要偷偷地逃跑？你为什么不告诉我，我好击鼓、弹琴、唱歌欢送你？

28 But you did not even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters goodbye. Now you have done a foolish thing.

28 你甚至不让我亲吻外孙和女儿，与他们道别，你这样做真愚蠢。

29 I have power to do you great harm, but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’

29 我有能力伤害你，但你父亲的上帝昨夜对我说，‘你要小心，不可对雅各多说什么。’

30 Now you have gone off because you long for your father’s house. But why have you stolen my gods?”

30 你思家心切，一定要走，但你为什么要偷走我的神像呢？”

31 “I was afraid,” Jacob answered, “for I thought you would take your daughters from me by force.

31 雅各对拉班说：“我逃跑是因为害怕，我以为你会从我身边夺走你的女儿。

32 If you find your gods with anyone here, he shall not live! In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself if anything is yours, and take it back.” For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the idols.

32 至于你的神像，你在谁身上搜出来，谁就是该死的。你可以当着众弟兄的面察看，如果在我这里有什么物件是你的，你只管拿走。”雅各不知道拉结偷走了神像。

33 So Laban went into Jacob’s tent, then Leah’s tent, and then the tents of the two maidservants, but he found nothing. Then he left Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s tent.

33 拉班进入雅各、利亚和两个婢女的帐篷搜查，却搜不出什么。拉班离开利亚的帐篷进入拉结的帐篷，

34 Now Rachel had taken Laban’s household idols, put them in the saddlebag of her camel, and was sitting on them. And Laban searched everything in the tent but found nothing.

34 那时拉结已经把神像藏在骆驼的鞍座里，自己坐在上面。拉班搜遍了整个帐篷，什么也找不到。

35 Rachel said to her father, “Sir, do not be angry that I cannot stand up before you; for I am having my period.” So Laban searched but could not find the household idols.

35 拉结对父亲说：“请我主别生气，我有月事在身，不能起身。”结果，拉班搜来搜去找不到神像。

36 Then Jacob became incensed and challenged Laban. “What is my crime?” he said. “For what sin of mine have you so hotly pursued me?

36 雅各发怒，斥责拉班说：“我做错了什么、犯了什么罪，以致你对我穷追不舍？

37 You have searched all my goods! Have you found anything that belongs to you? Put it here before my brothers and yours, that they may judge between the two of us.

37 你搜遍我所有的东西，搜到了什么？现在就当着众弟兄的面拿出来，让他们评评理吧！

38 I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flock.

38 我在你家这二十年，你的母绵羊、母山羊没有掉过胎，我也没有吃过你公羊的肉。

39 I did not bring you anything torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from me for what was stolen by day or night.

39 我没有把被野兽撕裂的羊带来给你，而是自己赔上。无论在白昼或黑夜被偷去的，你都要我赔偿。

40 As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.

40 我白天受尽烈日煎熬，晚上饱尝夜露寒霜，不得好睡。

41 Thus for twenty years I have served in your household—fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks—and you have changed my wages ten times!

41 这二十年来，我为了你的两个女儿，替你工作了十四年，又用了六年才从你那里得到这些羊，你把我的工钱更改了十次。

42 If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.”

42 如果不是我父亲以撒敬畏的上帝，就是亚伯拉罕的上帝与我同在，你肯定会让我两手空空地回家。但上帝看见了我的难处和劳苦，所以在昨夜责备了你。”

43 But Laban answered Jacob, “These daughters are my daughters, these sons are my sons, and these flocks are my flocks! Everything you see is mine! Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine or the children they have borne?

43 拉班回答说：“女儿是我的，孩子是我的，羊群也是我的，你的一切都是我的，我又怎会伤害我的女儿和她们的孩子呢？

44 Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between you and me.”

44 来吧，你我立约为证。”

45 So Jacob picked out a stone and set it up as a pillar,

45 于是，雅各拿来一块石头，立作柱子，

46 and he said to his relatives, “Gather some stones.” So they took stones and made a mound, and there by the mound they ate.

46 又吩咐众弟兄去收集石头。他们把石头堆成一堆，在旁边吃喝。

47 Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.

47 拉班称那石堆为伊迦尔·撒哈杜他 ，雅各却称那石堆为迦累得 。

48 Then Laban declared, “This mound is a witness between you and me this day.” Therefore the place was called Galeed.

48 拉班说：“今日，这石堆是你我之间的凭证。”因此，那地方名叫迦累得，

49 It was also called Mizpah, because Laban said, “May the LORD keep watch between you and me when we are absent from each other.

49 又叫米斯巴，因为拉班说：“我们分手以后，愿上帝亲自鉴察我们。

50 If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives, although no one is with us, remember that God is a witness between you and me.”

50 倘若你虐待我的女儿，或在她们以外另娶妻子，即使没人知道，也有上帝在你我之间做见证。”

51 Laban also said to Jacob, “Here is the mound, and here is the pillar I have set up between you and me.

51 拉班又说：“看我在你我之间立的这石堆和石柱。

52 This mound is a witness, and this pillar is a witness, that I will not go past this mound to harm you, and you will not go past this mound and pillar to harm me.

52 这石堆和石柱都是凭证，我不会越过石堆去害你，你也不可越过石堆和石柱来害我。

53 May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.

53 愿亚伯拉罕的上帝和拿鹤的上帝，就是他们父亲的上帝，在你我之间判断是非。”雅各便凭他父亲以撒敬畏的上帝起誓，

54 Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat a meal. And after they had eaten, they spent the night on the mountain.

54 又在山上献祭，请众弟兄吃饭。饭后，他们一同在山上过夜。

55 Early the next morning, Laban got up and kissed his grandchildren and daughters and blessed them. Then he left to return home.

55 拉班清早起来，亲吻外孙和女儿，给他们祝福，然后回家去了。