今日读经

以撒的后代

¹⁹亚伯拉罕的儿子以撒的后代记在下面。亚伯拉罕生以撒。This is the account of Abraham’s son Isaac. Abraham became the father of Isaac,

²⁰以撒娶利百加为妻的时候正四十岁。利百加是巴旦·亚兰地的亚兰人彼土利的女儿，是亚兰人拉班的妹子。and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.

双子在腹中相争

²¹以撒因他妻子不生育，就为她祈求耶和华；耶和华应允他的祈求，他的妻子利百加就怀了孕。Later, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD heard his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.

²²孩子们在她腹中彼此相争，她就说：“若是这样，我为什么活着呢（或译：我为什么如此呢）？”她就去求问耶和华。But the children inside her struggled with each other, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So Rebekah went to inquire of the LORD,

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²³耶和华对她说：两国在你腹内；两族要从你身上出来。这族必强于那族；将来大的要服事小的。and He declared to her: “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”

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以扫和雅各出生

²⁴生产的日子到了，腹中果然是双子。When her time came to give birth, there were indeed twins in her womb.

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²⁵先产的身体发红，浑身有毛，如同皮衣，他们就给他起名叫以扫（就是有毛的意思）。The first one came out red, covered with hair like a fur coat; so they named him Esau.

²⁶随后又生了以扫的兄弟，手抓住以扫的脚跟，因此给他起名叫雅各（就是抓住的意思）。利百加生下两个儿子的时候，以撒年正六十岁。After this, his brother came out grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born.

²⁷两个孩子渐渐长大，以扫善于打猎，常在田野；雅各为人安静，常住在帐棚里。When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.

²⁸以撒爱以扫，因为常吃他的野味；利百加却爱雅各。Because Isaac had a taste for wild game, he loved Esau; but Rebekah loved Jacob.

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以扫卖了长子的名分

²⁹有一天，雅各熬汤，以扫从田野回来累昏了。One day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the field and was famished.

³⁰以扫对雅各说：“我累昏了，求你把这红汤给我喝。”因此以扫又叫以东（就是红的意思）。He said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am famished.” (That is why he was also called Edom.)

³¹雅各说：“你今日把长子的名分卖给我吧。”“First sell me your birthright,” Jacob replied.

³²以扫说：“我将要死，这长子的名分于我有什么益处呢？”“Look,” said Esau, “I am about to die, so what good is a birthright to me?”

³³雅各说：“你今日对我起誓吧。”以扫就对他起了誓，把长子的名分卖给雅各。“Swear to me first,” Jacob said. So Esau swore to Jacob and sold him the birthright.

³⁴于是雅各将饼和红豆汤给了以扫，以扫吃了喝了，便起来走了。这就是以扫轻看了他长子的名分。Then Jacob gave some bread and lentil stew to Esau, who ate and drank and then got up and went away. Thus Esau despised his birthright.

神向以撒显现

¹在亚伯拉罕的日子，那地有一次饥荒；这时又有饥荒，以撒就往基拉耳去，到非利士人的王亚比米勒那里。Now there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.

²耶和华向以撒显现，说：“你不要下埃及去，要住在我所指示你的地。The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt. Settle in the land where I tell you.

³你寄居在这地，我必与你同在，赐福给你，因为我要将这些地都赐给你和你的后裔。我必坚定我向你父亚伯拉罕所起的誓。Stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.

⁴我要加增你的后裔，像天上的星那样多，又要将这些地都赐给你的后裔。并且地上万国必因你的后裔得福—I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,

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⁵都因亚伯拉罕听从我的话，遵守我的吩咐和我的命令、律例、法度。”because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”

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以撒称妻子为妹子

⁶以撒就住在基拉耳。So Isaac settled in Gerar.

⁷那地方的人问到他的妻子，他便说：“那是我的妹子。”原来他怕说：“是我的妻子”；他心里想：“恐怕这地方的人为利百加的缘故杀我”，因为她容貌俊美。But when the men of that place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister.” For he was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” since he thought to himself, “The men of this place will kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is so beautiful.”

⁸他在那里住了许久。有一天，非利士人的王亚比米勒从窗户里往外观看，见以撒和他的妻子利百加戏玩。When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down from the window and was surprised to see Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.

⁹亚比米勒召了以撒来，对他说：“她实在是你的妻子，你怎么说她是你的妹子？”以撒说：“我心里想，恐怕我因她而死。”Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, “So she is really your wife! How could you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac replied, “Because I thought I might die on account of her.”

¹⁰亚比米勒说：“你向我们做的是什么事呢？民中险些有人和你的妻同寝，把我们陷在罪里。”“What is this you have done to us?” asked Abimelech. “One of the people could easily have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”

¹¹于是亚比米勒晓谕众民说：“凡沾着这个人，或是他妻子的，定要把他治死。”So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, “Whoever harms this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”

以撒蒙福，非利士人嫉妒

¹²以撒在那地耕种，那一年有百倍的收成。耶和华赐福给他，Now Isaac sowed seed in the land, and that very year he reaped a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him,

¹³他就昌大，日增月盛，成了大富户。and he became richer and richer, until he was exceedingly wealthy.

¹⁴他有羊群牛群，又有许多仆人，非利士人就嫉妒他。He owned so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him.

¹⁵当他父亲亚伯拉罕在世的日子，他父亲的仆人所挖的井，非利士人全都塞住，填满了土。So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.

¹⁶亚比米勒对以撒说：“你离开我们去吧。因为你比我们强盛得多。”Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Depart from us, for you are much too powerful for us.”

挖井与争竞

¹⁷以撒就离开那里，在基拉耳谷支搭帐棚，住在那里。So Isaac left that place and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there.

¹⁸当他父亲亚伯拉罕在世之日所挖的水井因非利士人在亚伯拉罕死后塞住了，以撒就重新挖出来，仍照他父亲所叫的叫那些井的名字。Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. And he gave these wells the same names his father had given them.

¹⁹以撒的仆人在谷中挖井，便得了一口活水井。Then Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found a well of fresh water there.

²⁰基拉耳的牧人与以撒的牧人争竞，说：“这水是我们的。”以撒就给那井起名叫埃色（就是相敌的意思），因为他们和他相争。But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek, because they contended with him.

²¹以撒的仆人又挖了一口井，他们又为这井争竞，因此以撒给这井起名叫西提拿（就是为敌的意思）。Then they dug another well and quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.

²²以撒离开那里，又挖了一口井，他们不为这井争竞了，他就给那井起名叫利河伯（就是宽阔的意思）。他说：“耶和华现在给我们宽阔之地，我们必在这地昌盛。”He moved on from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. He named it Rehoboth and said, “At last the LORD has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”

神在别是巴向以撒显现

²³以撒从那里上别是巴去。From there Isaac went up to Beersheba,

²⁴当夜耶和华向他显现，说：“我是你父亲亚伯拉罕的　神，不要惧怕！因为我与你同在，要赐福给你，并要为我仆人亚伯拉罕的缘故，使你的后裔繁多。”and that night the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of My servant Abraham.”

²⁵以撒就在那里筑了一座坛，求告耶和华的名，并且支搭帐棚；他的仆人便在那里挖了一口井。So Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD, and he pitched his tent there. His servants also dug a well there.

与亚比米勒立约

²⁶亚比米勒，同他的朋友亚户撒和他的军长非各，从基拉耳来见以撒。Later, Abimelech came to Isaac from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his adviser and Phicol the commander of his army.

²⁷以撒对他们说：“你们既然恨我，打发我走了，为什么到我这里来呢？”“Why have you come to me?” Isaac asked them. “You hated me and sent me away.”

²⁸他们说：“我们明明地看见耶和华与你同在，便说，不如我们两下彼此起誓，彼此立约，“We can plainly see that the LORD has been with you,” they replied. “We recommend that there should now be an oath between us and you. Let us make a covenant with you

²⁹使你不害我们，正如我们未曾害你，一味地厚待你，并且打发你平平安安地走。你是蒙耶和华赐福的了。”that you will not harm us, just as we have not harmed you but have done only good to you, sending you on your way in peace. And now you are blessed by the LORD.”

³⁰以撒就为他们设摆筵席，他们便吃了喝了。So Isaac prepared a feast for them, and they ate and drank.

³¹他们清早起来彼此起誓。以撒打发他们走，他们就平平安安地离开他走了。And they got up early the next morning and swore an oath to each other. Then Isaac sent them on their way, and they left him in peace.

³²那一天，以撒的仆人来，将挖井的事告诉他说：“我们得了水了。”On that same day, Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. “We have found water!” they told him.

³³他就给那井起名叫示巴；因此那城叫做别是巴，直到今日。So he called it Shibah, and to this day the name of the city is Beersheba.

以扫娶赫人的女子

³⁴以扫四十岁的时候娶了赫人比利的女儿犹滴，与赫人以伦的女儿巴实抹为妻。When Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.

³⁵她们常使以撒和利百加心里愁烦。And they brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

以撒要给以扫祝福

¹以撒年老，眼睛昏花，不能看见，就叫了他大儿子以扫来，说：“我儿。”以扫说：“我在这里。”When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.” “Here I am,” Esau replied.

²他说：“我如今老了，不知道那一天死。“Look,” said Isaac, “I am now old, and I do not know the day of my death.

³现在拿你的器械，就是箭囊和弓，往田野去为我打猎，Take your weapons—your quiver and bow—and go out into the field to hunt some game for me.

⁴照我所爱的做成美味，拿来给我吃，使我在未死之先给你祝福。”Then prepare a tasty dish that I love and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die.”

利百加的计谋

⁵以撒对他儿子以扫说话，利百加也听见了。以扫往田野去打猎，要得野味带来。Now Rebekah was listening to what Isaac told his son Esau. So when Esau went into the field to hunt game and bring it back,

⁶利百加就对她儿子雅各说：“我听见你父亲对你哥哥以扫说：Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Behold, I overheard your father saying to your brother Esau,

⁷‘你去把野兽带来，做成美味给我吃，我好在未死之先，在耶和华面前给你祝福。’‘Bring me some game and prepare me a tasty dish to eat, so that I may bless you in the presence of the LORD before I die.’

⁸现在，我儿，你要照着我所吩咐你的，听从我的话。Now, my son, listen to my voice and do exactly as I tell you.

⁹你到羊群里去，给我拿两只肥山羊羔来，我便照你父亲所爱的给他做成美味。Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so that I can make them into a tasty dish for your father—the kind he loves.

¹⁰你拿到你父亲那里给他吃，使他在未死之先给你祝福。”Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.”

¹¹雅各对他母亲利百加说：“我哥哥以扫浑身是有毛的，我身上是光滑的；Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am smooth-skinned.

¹²倘若我父亲摸着我，必以我为欺哄人的，我就招咒诅，不得祝福。”What if my father touches me? Then I would be revealed to him as a deceiver, and I would bring upon myself a curse rather than a blessing.”

¹³他母亲对他说：“我儿，你招的咒诅归到我身上；你只管听我的话，去把羊羔给我拿来。”His mother replied, “Your curse be on me, my son. Just obey my voice and go get them for me.”

¹⁴他便去拿来，交给他母亲；他母亲就照他父亲所爱的做成美味。So Jacob went and got two goats and brought them to his mother, who made the tasty food his father loved.

¹⁵利百加又把家里所存大儿子以扫上好的衣服给她小儿子雅各穿上，And Rebekah took the finest clothes in the house that belonged to her older son Esau, and she put them on her younger son Jacob.

¹⁶又用山羊羔皮包在雅各的手上和颈项的光滑处，She also put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.

¹⁷就把所做的美味和饼交在她儿子雅各的手里。Then she handed her son Jacob the tasty food and bread she had made.

雅各冒充以扫得祝福

¹⁸雅各到他父亲那里说：“我父亲！”他说：“我在这里。我儿，你是谁？”So Jacob went to his father and said, “My father.” “Here I am!” he answered. “Which one are you, my son?”

¹⁹雅各对他父亲说：“我是你的长子以扫；我已照你所吩咐我的行了。请起来坐着，吃我的野味，好给我祝福。”Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.”

²⁰以撒对他儿子说：“我儿，你如何找得这么快呢？”他说：“因为耶和华—你的　神使我遇见好机会得着的。”But Isaac asked his son, “How did you ever find it so quickly, my son?” “Because the LORD your God brought it to me,” he replied.

²¹以撒对雅各说：“我儿，你近前来，我摸摸你，知道你真是我的儿子以扫不是。”Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come closer so I can touch you, my son. Are you really my son Esau, or not?”

²²雅各就挨近他父亲以撒。以撒摸着他，说：“声音是雅各的声音，手却是以扫的手。”So Jacob came close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

²³以撒就辨不出他来；因为他手上有毛，像他哥哥以扫的手一样，就给他祝福；Isaac did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.

²⁴又说：“你真是我儿子以扫吗？”他说：“我是。”Again he asked, “Are you really my son Esau?” And he replied, “I am.”

²⁵以撒说：“你递给我，我好吃我儿子的野味，给你祝福。”雅各就递给他，他便吃了，又拿酒给他，他也喝了。“Serve me,” said Isaac, “and let me eat some of my son’s game, so that I may bless you.” Jacob brought it to him, and he ate; then he brought him wine, and he drank.

²⁶他父亲以撒对他说：“我儿，你上前来与我亲嘴。”Then his father Isaac said to him, “Please come near and kiss me, my son.”

²⁷他就上前与父亲亲嘴。他父亲一闻他衣服上的香气，就给他祝福，说：我儿的香气如同耶和华赐福之田地的香气一样。So he came near and kissed him. When Isaac smelled his clothing, he blessed him and said: “Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the LORD has blessed.

²⁸愿　神赐你天上的甘露，地上的肥土，并许多五谷新酒。May God give to you the dew of heaven and the richness of the earth—an abundance of grain and new wine.

²⁹愿多民事奉你，多国跪拜你。愿你作你弟兄的主；你母亲的儿子向你跪拜。凡咒诅你的，愿他受咒诅；为你祝福的，愿他蒙福。May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. May you be the master of your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed, and those who bless you be blessed.”

呼召马太

⁹耶稣从那里往前走，看见一个人名叫马太，坐在税关上，就对他说：“你跟从我来。”他就起来跟从了耶稣。As Jesus went on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax booth. “Follow Me,” He told him, and Matthew got up and followed Him.

与税吏和罪人吃饭

¹⁰耶稣在屋里坐席的时候，有好些税吏和罪人来，与耶稣和他的门徒一同坐席。Later, as Jesus was dining at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with Him and His disciples.

¹¹法利赛人看见，就对耶稣的门徒说：“你们的先生为什么和税吏并罪人一同吃饭呢？”When the Pharisees saw this, they asked His disciples, “Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

¹²耶稣听见，就说：“康健的人用不着医生，有病的人才用得着。On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.

¹³经上说：‘我喜爱怜恤，不喜爱祭祀。’这句话的意思，你们且去揣摩。我来本不是召义人，乃是召罪人。”But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

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论禁食：新酒装新皮袋

¹⁴那时，约翰的门徒来见耶稣，说：“我们和法利赛人常常禁食，你的门徒倒不禁食，这是为什么呢？”Then John’s disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Why is it that we and the Pharisees fast so often, but Your disciples do not fast?”

¹⁵耶稣对他们说：“新郎和陪伴之人同在的时候，陪伴之人岂能哀恸呢？但日子将到，新郎要离开他们，那时候他们就要禁食。Jesus replied, “How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while He is with them? But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.

¹⁶没有人把新布补在旧衣服上；因为所补上的反带坏了那衣服，破的就更大了。No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. For the patch will pull away from the garment, and a worse tear will result.

¹⁷也没有人把新酒装在旧皮袋里；若是这样，皮袋就裂开，酒漏出来，连皮袋也坏了。惟独把新酒装在新皮袋里，两样就都保全了。”Neither do men pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will spill, and the wineskins will be ruined. Instead, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.”

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管会堂的来求耶稣

¹⁸耶稣说这话的时候，有一个管会堂的来拜他，说：“我女儿刚才死了，求你去按手在她身上，她就必活了。”While Jesus was saying these things, a synagogue leader came and knelt before Him. “My daughter has just died,” he said. “But come and place Your hand on her, and she will live.”

¹⁹耶稣便起来跟着他去；门徒也跟了去。So Jesus got up and went with him, along with His disciples.

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患血漏的女人

²⁰有一个女人，患了十二年的血漏，来到耶稣背后，摸他的衣裳䍁子；Suddenly a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His cloak.

²¹因为她心里说：“我只摸他的衣裳，就必痊愈。”She said to herself, “If only I touch His cloak, I will be healed.”

²²耶稣转过来，看见她，就说：“女儿，放心！你的信救了你。”从那时候，女人就痊愈了。Jesus turned and saw her. “Take courage, daughter,” He said, “your faith has healed you.” And the woman was healed from that very hour.

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使闺女复活

²³耶稣到了管会堂的家里，看见有吹手，又有许多人乱嚷，When Jesus entered the house of the synagogue leader, He saw the flute players and the noisy crowd.

²⁴就说：“退去吧！这闺女不是死了，是睡着了。”他们就嗤笑他。“Go away,” He told them. “The girl is not dead, but asleep.” And they laughed at Him.

²⁵众人既被撵出，耶稣就进去，拉着闺女的手，闺女便起来了。After the crowd had been put outside, Jesus went in and took the girl by the hand, and she got up.

²⁶于是这风声传遍了那地方。And the news about this spread throughout that region.

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开两个瞎子的眼睛

²⁷耶稣从那里往前走，有两个瞎子跟着他，喊叫说：“大卫的子孙，可怜我们吧！”As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed Him, crying out, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!”

²⁸耶稣进了房子，瞎子就来到他跟前。耶稣说：“你们信我能做这事吗？”他们说：“主啊，我们信。”After Jesus had entered the house, the blind men came to Him. “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” He asked. “Yes, Lord,” they answered.

²⁹耶稣就摸他们的眼睛，说：“照着你们的信给你们成全了吧。”Then He touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith will it be done to you.”

³⁰他们的眼睛就开了。耶稣切切地嘱咐他们说：“你们要小心，不可叫人知道。”And their eyes were opened. Jesus warned them sternly, “See that no one finds out about this!”

³¹他们出去，竟把他的名声传遍了那地方。But they went out and spread the news about Him throughout the land.

赶出哑巴的鬼

³²他们出去的时候，有人将鬼所附的一个哑巴带到耶稣跟前来。As they were leaving, a demon-possessed man who was mute was brought to Jesus.

³³鬼被赶出去，哑巴就说出话来。众人都希奇，说：“在以色列中，从来没有见过这样的事。”And when the demon had been driven out, the man began to speak. The crowds were amazed and said, “Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel!”

³⁴法利赛人却说：“他是靠着鬼王赶鬼。”But the Pharisees said, “It is by the prince of demons that He drives out demons.”

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