创世记-Genesis第32章

乐园李老师

创32:1  雅各仍旧行路，神的使者遇见他。
Jacob also went on his way, and the angels of God met him.

创32:2  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（就是二军兵的意思）。
When Jacob saw them, he said, 'This is the camp of God!' So he named that place Mahanaim.

创32:3  雅各打发人先往西珥地去，就是以东地，见他哥哥以扫，
Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

创32:4  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。
He instructed them: 'This is what you are to say to my master Esau: 'Your servant Jacob says, I have been staying with Laban and have remained there till now.

创32:5  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。
I have cattle and donkeys, sheep and goats, menservants and maidservants. Now I am sending this message to my lord, that I may find favor in your eyes.' '

创32:6  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。
When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, 'We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.'

创32:7  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，骆驼分作两队，
In great fear and distress Jacob divided the people who were with him into two groups, and the flocks and herds and camels as well.

创32:8  说，以扫若来击杀这一队，剩下的那一队还可以逃避。
He thought, 'If Esau comes and attacks one group, the group that is left may escape.'

创32:9  雅各说，耶和华我祖亚伯拉罕的神，我父亲以撒的神阿，你曾对我说，回你本地本族去，我要厚待你。
Then Jacob prayed, 'O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, O Lord , who said to me, 'Go back to your country and your relatives, and I will make you prosper,'

创32:10 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。
I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown your servant. I had only my staff when I crossed this Jordan, but now I have become two groups.

创32:11 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。
Save me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, and also the mothers with their children.

创32:12 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。
But you have said, 'I will surely make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted.' '

创32:13 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。
He spent the night there, and from what he had with him he selected a gift for his brother Esau:

创32:14 母山羊二百只，公山羊二十只，母绵羊二百只，公绵羊二十只，
two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

创32:15 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。
thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.

创32:16 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。
He put them in the care of his servants, each herd by itself, and said to his servants, 'Go ahead of me, and keep some space between the herds.'

创32:17 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，
He instructed the one in the lead: 'When my brother Esau meets you and asks, 'To whom do you belong, and where are you going, and who owns all these animals in front of you?'

创32:18 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。
then you are to say, 'They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift sent to my lord Esau, and he is coming behind us.' '

创32:19 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。
He also instructed the second, the third and all the others who followed the herds: 'You are to say the same thing to Esau when you meet him.

创32:20 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。
And be sure to say, 'Your servant Jacob is coming behind us.' ' For he thought, 'I will pacify him with these gifts I am sending on ahead; later, when I see him, perhaps he will receive me.'

创32:21 于是礼物先过去了。那夜，雅各在队中住宿。
So Jacob's gifts went on ahead of him, but he himself spent the night in the camp.

创32:22 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，
That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

创32:23 先打发他们过河，又打发所有的都过去，
After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions.

创32:24 只剩下雅各一人。有一个人来和他摔跤，直到黎明。
So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak.

创32:25 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。
When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man.

创32:26 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。
Then the man said, 'Let me go, for it is daybreak.' But Jacob replied, 'I will not let you go unless you bless me.'

创32:27 那人说，你名叫什么？他说，我名叫雅各。
The man asked him, 'What is your name?' 'Jacob,' he answered.

创32:28 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。
Then the man said, 'Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men and have overcome.'

创32:29 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。
Jacob said, 'Please tell me your name.' But he replied, 'Why do you ask my name?' Then he blessed him there.

创32:30 雅各便给那地方起名叫毗努伊勒（就是神之面的意思），意思说，我面对面见了神，我的性命仍得保全。
So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, 'It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared.'

创32:31 日头刚出来的时候，雅各经过毗努伊勒，他的大腿就瘸了。
The sun rose above him as he passed Peniel, and he was limping because of his hip.

创32:32 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。
Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon attached to the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob's hip was touched near the tendon.