¹ 雅各仍旧行路，神的使者遇见他。

² 雅各看见他们就说：这是神的军兵，於是给那地方起名叫玛哈念(就是二军兵的意思)。

³ 雅各打发人先往西珥地去，就是以东地，见他哥哥以扫，

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。

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。

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。

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、骆驼分做两队，

⁸ 说：以扫若来击杀这一队，剩下的那一队还可以逃避。

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。

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但河，如今我却成了两队了。

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。

¹² 你曾说：我必定厚待你，使你的後裔如同海边的沙，多得不可胜数。

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：

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，

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；

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，有空间的地方；

¹⁷ 又吩咐尽先走的说：我哥哥以扫遇见你的时候，问你说：你是那家的人？要往那里去？你前头？这些是谁的？

¹⁸ 你就说：是你仆人雅各的，是送给我主以扫的礼物；他自己也在我们後边？。

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；

²⁰ 并且你们要说：你仆人雅各在我们後边。因雅各心里说：我藉着在我前头去的礼物解他的恨，然後再见他的面，或者他容纳我。

²¹ 於是礼物先过去了；那夜，雅各在队中住宿。

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，

²³ 先打发他们过河，又打发所有的都过去，

²⁴ 只剩下雅各一人。有一个人来和他摔跤，直到黎明。

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。

²⁶ 那人说：天黎明了，容我去罢！雅各说：你不给我祝福，我就不容你去。

²⁷ 那人说：你名叫甚麽？他说：我名叫雅各。

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。

²⁹ 雅各问他说：请将你的名告诉我。那人说：何必问我的名？於是在那里给雅各祝福。

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。

³¹ 日头刚出来的时候，雅各经过毗努伊勒，他的大腿就瘸了。

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。

¹ There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

² Yahweh appeared to him, and said, "Don't go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.

³ Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

⁴ I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed,

⁵ because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."

⁶ Isaac lived in Gerar.

⁷ The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "My wife," lest, he thought, "the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at."

⁸ It happened, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.

⁹ Abimelech called Isaac, and said, "Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, 'She is my sister?'" Isaac said to him, "Because I said, 'Lest I die because of her.'"

¹⁰ Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!"

¹¹ Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."

¹² Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.

¹³ The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great.

¹⁴ He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.

¹⁵ Now all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.

¹⁶ Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go from us, for you are much mightier than we."

¹⁷ Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.

¹⁸ Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father. For the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.

¹⁹ Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.

²⁰ The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.

²¹ They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. He called its name Sitnah.

²² He left that place, and dug another well. They didn't argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, "For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land."

²³ He went up from there to Beersheba.

²⁴ Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Don't be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my servant Abraham's sake."

²⁵ He built an altar there, and called on the name of Yahweh, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac's servants dug a well.

²⁶ Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.

²⁷ Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?"

²⁸ They said, "We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. We said, 'Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you,

²⁹ that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.' You are now the blessed of Yahweh."

³⁰ He made them a feast, and they ate and drank.

³¹ They rose up some time in the morning, and swore one to another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

³² It happened the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, "We have found water."

³³ He called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.

³⁴ When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.

³⁵ They grieved Isaac's and Rebekah's spirits.