1雅各謀奪祝福以撒年老，眼睛昏花，看不見東西了；他把他的大兒子以掃叫了來，對他說：“我兒啊！”以掃回答他：“我在這裡。”
1It happened, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, “My son?” He said to him, “Here I am.”
2以撒說：“現在我已經老了，不知道甚麼時候會死。
2He said, “See now, I am old. I don’t know the day of my death.
3你現在拿你打獵的用具，就是你的箭囊和弓，出到田野去為我打獵。
3Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison.
4照我所喜歡的，給我預備美味的食物，拿來給我吃；好讓我在未死以前給你祝福。”
4Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die.”
5以撒對他兒子以掃說話的時候，利百加也聽見。以掃到田野去打獵，要帶些野味回來。
5Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.
6利百加就對她兒子雅各說：“我聽見你父親對你的哥哥以掃這樣說：
6Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,
7‘你去為我打些獵物回來，給我預備美味的食物，讓我吃了，在我未死以前可以在耶和華面前給你祝福。’
7‘Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before Yahweh before my death.’
8我兒啊，現在你要聽我的話，照著我吩咐你的去作。
8Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.
9你快到羊群那裡去，給我牽兩隻肥嫩的小山羊來，我要照你父親所喜歡的，給他預備美味的食物。
9Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good young goats. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.
10然後你要拿去給你父親吃，好讓他在未死以前給你祝福。”
10You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death.”
11雅各對他的母親利百加說：“但是哥哥以掃渾身是毛，而我卻是個皮膚光滑的人。
11Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.
12萬一我父親摸著我，必以為我是騙子，那時我就必自招咒詛，而不是祝福了。”
12What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing.”
13他母親對他說：“我兒啊，願你所招的咒詛歸到我身上吧，你只管聽我的話，去把羊牽來給我。”
13His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me.”
14他就去把羊羔牽來，交給他母親，他母親就照他父親所喜歡的，預備美味的食物。
14He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.
15利百加又把大兒子以掃留在家裡最好的衣服拿來，給她小兒子雅各穿上。
15Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son.
16又用小山羊的皮，包在雅各的手上和他頸上光滑的地方。
16She put the skins of the young goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.
17然後，她把自己所預備美味的食物和餅，放在她兒子雅各的手裡。
17She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
18雅各來到他父親那裡，說：“我父啊！”以撒說：“我在這裡，我兒啊，你是誰？”
18He came to his father, and said, “My father?” He said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?”
19雅各對他父親說：“我就是你的長子以掃，你吩咐我作的，我已經照樣作了。請坐起來，吃我的獵物，好給我祝福。”
19Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me.”
20以撒問他的兒子：“我兒啊，你怎麼這樣快就獵到了呢？”雅各回答：“因為耶和華你的 神叫我碰著好機會。”
20Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?” He said, “Because Yahweh your God gave me success.”
21以撒對雅各說：“我兒啊，你上前來，讓我摸摸你，看看你是不是我的兒子以掃。”
21Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.”
22雅各就走近他父親以撒身邊，以撒摸著他，說：“聲音是雅各的聲音，手卻是以掃的手。”
22Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
23以撒認不出他來，因為他的手上有毛，好像他哥哥以掃的手一樣，於是給他祝福。
23He didn’t recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother, Esau’s hands. So he blessed him.
24以撒問：“你真是我的兒子以掃嗎？”他回答：“我是。”
24He said, “Are you really my son Esau?” He said, “I am.”
25以撒說：“把食物遞給我，好讓我吃我兒子的獵物，我就給你祝福。”雅各把食物遞給他，他就吃了；又拿酒給他，他也喝了。
25He said, “Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son’s venison, that my soul may bless you.” He brought it near to him, and he ate. He brought him wine, and he drank.
26他父親以撒對他說：“我兒啊，你上前來，和我親嘴。”
26His father Isaac said to him, “Come near now, and kiss me, my son.”
27他就上前和父親親嘴；他父親一聞到他衣服的香氣，就給他祝福，說：“看哪，我兒子的香氣，好像蒙耶和華賜福的田地所發出的香氣一樣。
27He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, “Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which Yahweh has blessed.
28願 神賜給你天上的甘露，地上的沃土，以及大量五穀和美酒。
28God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.
29願萬民服事你，願萬族向你下拜，願你作你兄弟的主人，願你母親的子孫向你下拜。咒詛你的，願他受咒詛；給你祝福的，願他蒙福。”
29Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. Blessed be everyone who blesses you.”
30以掃求父祝福以撒給雅各祝福完了，雅各剛剛從他父親以撒那裡出來的時候，他哥哥以掃就打獵回來了。
30It happened, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
31他也預備了美味的食物，拿來給他父親，對他說：“請我父起來，吃你兒子的獵物，好給我祝福。”
31He also made savory food, and brought it to his father. He said to his father, “Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s venison, that your soul may bless me.”
32他父親以撒問他：“你是誰？”他回答：“我就是你的長子以掃。”
32Isaac his father said to him, “Who are you?” He said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.”
33以撒就大大地戰兢起來，說：“那麼，剛才去打獵又拿獵物給我的是誰呢？在你未來以先，我已經吃了，又給他祝福了；他將來必定蒙福。”
33Isaac trembled violently, and said, “Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed.”
34以掃聽了他父親的話，就非常痛心，放聲大哭，對他父親說：“我父啊，求你也給我祝福。”
34When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, my father.”
35以撒說：“你弟弟已經前來，用詭計把你的祝福奪去了。”
35He said, “Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing.”
36以掃說：“他名叫雅各不是很對嗎？因為他欺騙了我兩次。從前他奪去我的長子名分，現在他又奪去我的祝福。”以掃又說：“你再沒有祝福留給我嗎？”
36He said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing.” He said, “Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?”
37以撒回答以掃，說：“我已經立他作你的主人，又把他所有的兄弟給了他作僕人，並且把五穀和美酒供給他了。我兒啊，我還可以為你作甚麼呢？”
37Isaac answered Esau, “Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers have I given to him for servants. With grain and new wine have I sustained him. What then will I do for you, my son?”
38以掃問他的父親：“我父啊，你只有一個祝福嗎？我父啊，求你也給我祝福。”以掃就放聲大哭。
38Esau said to his father, “Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father.” Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
39他父親以撒回答他，說：“你住的地方必遠離地上的沃土，遠離天上的甘露。
39Isaac his father answered him, “Behold, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling, and of the dew of the sky from above.
40你必依靠刀劍生活，你必服事你的弟弟；到你自由的時候，你必從你的頸項上掙脫他的軛。”
40By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you shall shake his yoke from off your neck.”
41以掃恨雅各以掃因為他父親給雅各所祝的福，就懷恨雅各；以掃心裡想：“為我父親守喪的時候近了，到時我必殺我的弟弟雅各。”
41Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
42有人把利百加大兒子以掃所說的話告訴了利百加，她就派人把她小兒子雅各叫了來，對他說：“你哥哥以掃想要殺你，報仇雪恨。
42The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, “Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.
43我兒啊，現在你要聽我的話；起來，逃到哈蘭我哥哥拉班那裡去吧。
43Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.
44與他住些時日，等到你哥哥的怒氣消了。
44Stay with him a few days, until your brother’s fury turns away;
45你哥哥對你消了怒氣，忘記了你對他所作的事，我就派人去把你從那裡接回來。我何必在一日之內喪失你們兩個呢？”
45until your brother’s anger turn away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send, and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?”
46利百加對以撒說：“我因為這些赫人女子，連性命都厭惡了。如果雅各也從這地的女子中，娶了像這樣的赫人女子為妻，那我活著還有甚麼意思呢？”
46Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?”