創世記29:1-14

29:1 雅各起行，到了東方人之地，
29:2 看見田間有一口井，有三群羊臥在井旁；因為人飲羊群都是用那井裡的水。井口上的石頭是大的。
29:3 常有羊群在那裡聚集，牧人把石頭轉離井口飲羊，隨後又把石頭放在井口的原處。
29:4 雅各對牧人說：「弟兄們，你們是哪裡來的？」他們說：「我們是哈蘭來的。」
29:5 他問他們說：「拿鶴的孫子拉班，你們認識嗎？」他們說：「我們認識。」
29:6 雅各說：「他平安嗎？」他們說：「平安。看哪，他女兒拉結領著羊來了。」
29:7 雅各說：「日頭還高，不是羊群聚集的時候，你們不如飲羊，再去放一放。」
29:8 他們說：「我們不能，必等羊群聚齊，人把石頭轉離井口才可飲羊。」
29:9 雅各正和他們說話的時候，拉結領著她父親的羊來了，因為那些羊是她牧放的。
29:10 雅各看見母舅拉班的女兒拉結和母舅拉班的羊群，就上前把石頭轉離井口，飲他母舅拉班的羊群。
29:11 雅各與拉結親嘴，就放聲而哭。
29:12 雅各告訴拉結，自己是她父親的外甥，是利百加的兒子，拉結就跑去告訴她父親。
29:13 拉班聽見外甥雅各的信息，就跑去迎接，抱著他，與他親嘴，領他到自己的家。雅各將一切的情由告訴拉班。
29:14 拉班對他說：「你實在是我的骨肉。」雅各就和他同住了一個月。

Then Jacob continued on his journey and came to the land of the eastern peoples. ² There he saw a well in the open country, with three flocks of sheep lying near it because the flocks were watered from that well. The stone over the mouth of the well was large. ³ When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone away from the well’s mouth and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.

⁴ Jacob asked the shepherds, “My brothers, where are you from?”
“We’re from Harran,” they replied.
⁵ He said to them, “Do you know Laban, Nahor’s grandson?”
“Yes, we know him,” they answered.
⁶ Then Jacob asked them, “Is he well?”
“Yes, he is,” they said, “and here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep.”
⁷ “Look,” he said, “the sun is still high; it is not time for the flocks to be gathered. Water the sheep and take them back to pasture.”
⁸ “We can’t,” they replied, “until all the flocks are gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.”
⁹ While he was still talking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherd. ¹⁰ When Jacob saw Rachel daughter of his uncle Laban, and Laban’s sheep, he went over and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep. ¹¹ Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep aloud. ¹² He had told Rachel that he was a relative of her father and a son of Rebekah. So she ran and told her father.
¹³ As soon as Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister’s son, he hurried to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, and there Jacob told him all these things. ¹⁴ Then Laban said to him, “You are my own flesh and blood.”

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    雅各和舅舅拉班見面，是要告訴我們上帝對雅各的保守，使他能平安回到母親的娘家，也開始他生命的重要階段。

    雖然這是個人的事蹟，但是上帝仍然看重，要我們從其中知道上帝是眷顧每一個屬於祂的人，不管大事或小事，在祂的眼中都是重要的事情。

    我們的一生似乎也是平淡無奇，但是都有上帝同在，見變成美好了！這也是上帝讓我們看雅各的生平，也想到上帝與我們每時每刻的同在之恩惠！