< Genesis 33 >

1 Now Jacob looked up and saw that Esau approaching, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two female servants.
雅各举目观看,见以扫来了,后头跟着四百人,他就把孩子们分开交给利亚、拉结,和两个使女,
2 He put the female servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph last.
并且叫两个使女和她们的孩子在前头,利亚和她的孩子在后头,拉结和约瑟在尽后头。
3 He himself went on ahead of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he approached his brother.
他自己在他们前头过去,一连七次俯伏在地才就近他哥哥。
4 Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, hugged his neck, and kissed him. And they wept.
以扫跑来迎接他,将他抱住,又搂着他的颈项,与他亲嘴,两个人就哭了。
5 And he looked up and saw the women and the children, and said, "Who are these with you?" He said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."
以扫举目看见妇人孩子,就说:“这些和你同行的是谁呢?”雅各说:“这些孩子是 神施恩给你的仆人的。”
6 Then the female servants came forward with their children, and they bowed themselves.
于是两个使女和她们的孩子前来下拜;
7 Leah also and her children came forward, and bowed themselves. After them, Joseph came forward with Rachel, and they bowed themselves.
利亚和她的孩子也前来下拜;随后约瑟和拉结也前来下拜。
8 Esau said, "What do you mean by all this company which I met?" Jacob said, "To find favor in the sight of my lord."
以扫说:“我所遇见的这些群畜是什么意思呢?”雅各说:“是要在我主面前蒙恩的。”
9 Esau said, "I have enough, my brother; keep what you have for yourself."
以扫说:“兄弟啊,我的已经够了,你的仍归你吧!”
10 Jacob said, "No, please, if I have now found favor in our sight, then accept my present from my hand, because I have seen your face, which is like seeing the face of God, since you have accepted me.
雅各说:“不然,我若在你眼前蒙恩,就求你从我手里收下这礼物;因为我见了你的面,如同见了 神的面,并且你容纳了我。
11 Please take the gift that I brought to you, because God has been gracious to me, and because I have enough." Thus he urged him, and he took it.
求你收下我带来给你的礼物;因为 神恩待我,使我充足。”雅各再三地求他,他才收下了。
12 Esau said, "Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go ahead of you."
以扫说:“我们可以起身前往,我在你前头走。”
13 Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the sheep and cattle with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, the whole herd will die.
雅各对他说:“我主知道孩子们年幼娇嫩,牛羊也正在乳养的时候,若是催赶一天,群畜都必死了。
14 Please let my lord pass on ahead of his servant, and I will move along slowly, at the pace of the herds that are before me and at the pace of the children, until I come to my lord at Seir."
求我主在仆人前头走,我要量着在我面前群畜和孩子的力量慢慢地前行,直走到西珥我主那里。”
15 Esau said, "Let me now leave with you some of my people who are with me." But he said, "What need is there? Please indulge me, my lord."
以扫说:“容我把跟随我的人留几个在你这里。”雅各说:“何必呢?只要在我主眼前蒙恩就是了。”
16 So Esau returned that day on the road to Seir.
于是,以扫当日起行,回往西珥去了。
17 But Jacob traveled to Succoth, and he built himself a house, and made shelters for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
雅各就往疏割去,在那里为自己盖造房屋,又为牲畜搭棚;因此那地方名叫疏割。
18 After Jacob came from Paddan Aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, and camped near the city.
雅各从巴旦·亚兰回来的时候,平平安安地到了迦南地的示剑城,在城东支搭帐棚,
19 He purchased the parcel of land where he had pitched his tent, from the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred kesitahs.
就用一百块银子向示剑的父亲、哈抹的子孙买了支帐棚的那块地,
20 He erected an altar there and called it El Elohe Israel.
在那里筑了一座坛,起名叫伊利·伊罗伊·以色列。

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