| 1 | 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,
Jacob looked up and there was Esau, coming with his four hundred men; so he divided the children among Leah, Rachel and the two maidservants.
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| 2 | 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。
He put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph in the rear.
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| 3 | 他自己在他们前头过去,一连七次俯伏在地才就近他哥哥。
He himself went on ahead and bowed down to the ground seven times as he approached his brother.
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| 4 | 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。
But Esau ran to meet Jacob and embraced him; he threw his arms around his neck and kissed him. And they wept.
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| 5 | 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。
Then Esau looked up and saw the women and children. "Who are these with you?" he asked. Jacob answered, "They are the children God has graciously given your servant."
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| 6 | 于是两个使女和她们的孩子前来下拜。
Then the maidservants and their children approached and bowed down.
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| 7 | 利亚和她的孩子也前来下拜。随后约瑟和拉结也前来下拜。
Next, Leah and her children came and bowed down. Last of all came Joseph and Rachel, and they too bowed down.
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| 8 | 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。
Esau asked, "What do you mean by all these droves I met?" "To find favor in your eyes, my lord," he said.
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| 9 | 以扫说,兄弟阿,我的已经够了,你的仍归你吧。
But Esau said, "I already have plenty, my brother. Keep what you have for yourself."
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| 10 | 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。
"No, please!" said Jacob. "If I have found favor in your eyes, accept this gift from me. For to see your face is like seeing the face of God, now that you have received me favorably.
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| 11 | 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。
Please accept the present that was brought to you, for God has been gracious to me and I have all I need." And because Jacob insisted, Esau accepted it.
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| 12 | 以扫说,我们可以起身前往,我在你前头走。
Then Esau said, "Let us be on our way; I'll accompany you."
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| 13 | 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。
But Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are tender and that I must care for the ewes and cows that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard just one day, all the animals will die.
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| 14 | 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。
So let my lord go on ahead of his servant, while I move along slowly at the pace of the droves before me and that of the children, until I come to my lord in Seir."
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| 15 | 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。
Esau said, "Then let me leave some of my men with you." "But why do that?" Jacob asked. "Just let me find favor in the eyes of my lord."
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| 16 | 于是,以扫当日起行,回往西珥去了。
So that day Esau started on his way back to Seir.
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| 17 | 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(就是棚的意思)。
Jacob, however, went to Succoth, where he built a place for himself and made shelters for his livestock. That is why the place is called Succoth.
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| 18 | 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,
After Jacob came from Paddan Aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in Canaan and camped within sight of the city.
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| 19 | 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,
For a hundred pieces of silver, he bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, the plot of ground where he pitched his tent.
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| 20 | 在那里筑了一座坛,起名叫伊利伊罗伊以色列(就是神,以色列神的意思)。
There he set up an altar and called it El Elohe Israel.
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