1以撒打發雅各投靠拉班以撒把雅各叫了來，給他祝福，並且吩咐他，說：“你不可娶迦南的女子為妻。
1Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
2起來，到巴旦．亞蘭你外祖父彼土利的家裡去，在那裡娶你舅父拉班的一個女兒為妻。
2Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
3願全能的 神賜福給你，使你繁殖增多，成為大族。
3May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,
4願 神把應許給亞伯拉罕的福，賜給你和你的後裔，使你可以得著你寄居的地為業，就是 神賜給亞伯拉罕的。”
4and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your seed with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham.”
5於是，以撒打發雅各去了，雅各就往巴旦．亞蘭去，到了亞蘭人彼土利的兒子拉班那裡。拉班就是雅各和以掃的母親利百加的哥哥。
5Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, Rebekah’s brother, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.
6以掃見以撒給雅各祝福，又打發他到巴旦．亞蘭去，在那裡娶妻；又見以撒給雅各祝福的時候，吩咐他說：“你不可娶迦南的女子為妻”；
6Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan,”
7又見雅各聽從了他父母的話，到巴旦．亞蘭去了；
7and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.
8以掃就看出，他父親以撒不喜歡迦南的女子。
8Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn’t please Isaac, his father.
9於是，以掃到以實瑪利那裡去，在他兩個妻子以外，娶了瑪哈拉為妻。瑪哈拉就是亞伯拉罕的兒子以實瑪利的女兒，尼拜約的妹妹。
9Esau went to Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.
10雅各在伯特利見異夢雅各離開別是巴，到哈蘭去。
10Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.
11來到一個地方，就在那裡過夜，因為太陽已經落了。他拾起那地方的一塊石頭，把它放在頭底下作枕頭，就在那裡躺下睡了。
11He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.
12他作了一個夢，夢見一個梯子立在地上，梯頂直通到天， 神的眾使者在梯子上下往來。
12He dreamed. Behold, a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
13耶和華站在梯子上，說：“我是耶和華你祖父亞伯拉罕的 神，也是以撒的 神，我要把你現在躺著的這塊地賜給你和你的後裔。
13Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, “I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon you lie, to you will I give it, and to your seed.
14你的後裔必像地面的灰塵那麼多；你必向東、南、西、北擴展；地上的萬族必因你和你的後裔得福。
14Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.
15我與你同在，你無論到哪裡去，我必看顧你；我必領你回到這地方來，因為我必不離棄你，直到我實現了我對你所應許的。”
15Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”
16雅各一覺醒來，說：“耶和華確實在這地方，我竟不知道！”
16Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, “Surely Yahweh is in this place, and I didn’t know it.”
17他就懼怕起來，說：“這地方多麼可畏啊，這不是別的地方，而是 神的殿，是天的門。”
17He was afraid, and said, “How dreadful is this place! This is none other than God’s house, and this is the gate of heaven.”
18雅各許願雅各清早起來，把他曾經放在頭底下作枕頭的那塊石頭，立作石柱，在柱上澆了油。
18Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil on its top.
19他就給那地方起名叫伯特利，但那城起初名叫路斯。
19He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
20於是雅各許了一個願說：“如果 神與我同在，在我所走的路上看顧我，賜我食物吃，給我衣服穿，
20Jacob vowed a vow, saying, “If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on,
21使我可以平平安安地回到我的父家，我就必定以耶和華為我的 神，
21so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, and Yahweh will be my God,
22我立作石柱的那塊石頭，必作 神的殿；你賜給我的一切，我必把十分之一獻給你。”
22then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God’s house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give the tenth to you.”