創世記25:19-34

25:19 亞伯拉罕的兒子以撒的後代記在下面。亞伯拉罕生以撒。
25:20 以撒娶利百加為妻的時候正四十歲。利百加是巴旦‧亞蘭地的亞蘭人彼土利的女兒，是亞蘭人拉班的妹子。
25:21 以撒因他妻子不生育，就為她祈求耶和華；耶和華應允他的祈求，他的妻子利百加就懷了孕。
25:22 孩子們在她腹中彼此相爭，她就說：「若是這樣，我為甚麼活著呢（或譯：我為甚麼如此呢）？」她就去求問耶和華。
25:23 耶和華對她說：兩國在你腹內；兩族要從你身上出來。這族必強於那族；將來大的要服事小的。
25:24 生產的日子到了，腹中果然是雙子。
25:25 先產的身體發紅，渾身有毛，如同皮衣，他們就給他起名叫以掃（就是有毛的意思）。
25:26 隨後又生了以掃的兄弟，手抓住以掃的腳跟，因此給他起名叫雅各（就是抓住的意思）。利百加生下兩個兒子的時候，以撒年正六十歲。
25:27 兩個孩子漸漸長大，以掃善於打獵，常在田野；雅各為人安靜，常住在帳棚裡。
25:28 以撒愛以掃，因為常吃他的野味；利百加卻愛雅各。
25:29 有一天，雅各熬湯，以掃從田野回來累昏了。
25:30 以掃對雅各說：「我累昏了，求你把這紅湯給我喝。」因此以掃又叫以東（就是紅的意思）。
25:31 雅各說：「你今日把長子的名分賣給我吧。」
25:32 以掃說：「我將要死，這長子的名分於我有甚麼益處呢？」
25:33 雅各說：「你今日對我起誓吧。」以掃就對他起了誓，把長子的名分賣給雅各。
25:34 於是雅各將餅和紅豆湯給了以掃，以掃吃了喝了，便起來走了。這就是以掃輕看了他長子的名分。

¹⁹ This is the account of the family line of Abraham’s son Isaac.

Abraham became the father of Isaac, ²⁰ and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram^[c] and sister of Laban the Aramean.

²¹ Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife, because she was childless. The Lord answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant. ²² The babies jostled each other within her, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the Lord.
²³ The Lord said 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.”

²⁴ When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb. ²⁵ The first to come out was red, and his whole body was like a hairy garment; so they named him Esau.^{[d] 26} After this, his brother came out, with his hand grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob.^[e] Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah gave birth to them.

²⁷ The boys grew up, and Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the open country, while Jacob was content to stay at home among the tents. ²⁸ Isaac, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
²⁹ Once when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the open country, famished. ³⁰ He said to Jacob, “Quick, let me have some of that red stew! I’m famished!” (That is why he was also called Edom.^[f])
³¹ Jacob replied, “First sell me your birthright.”
³² “Look, I am about to die,” Esau said. “What good is the birthright to me?”
³³ But Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” So he swore an oath to him, selling his birthright to Jacob.
³⁴ Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew. He ate and drank, and then got up and left.
So Esau despised his birthright.

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    雅各和以掃是雙胞胎，但是命運卻不同。因為上帝選上的雅各，卻厭棄了以掃，以致於應許的恩典臨到雅各和他的子孫！而雅各則是以色列人的祖先，也因此亞伯拉罕的福是屬於以色列的，上帝也透過以色列人預備基督。

創世記25:12-18

25:12 撒拉的使女埃及人夏甲給亞伯拉罕所生的兒子是以實瑪利。
25:13 以實瑪利兒子們的名字，按著他們的家譜記在下面。以實瑪利的長子是尼拜約，又有基達、亞德別、米比衫、
25:14 米施瑪、度瑪、瑪撒、
25:15 哈大、提瑪、伊突、拿非施、基底瑪。
25:16 這是以實瑪利眾子的名字，照著他們的村莊、營寨，作了十二族的族長。
25:17 以實瑪利享壽一百三十七歲，氣絕而死，歸到他列祖（原文是本民）那裡。
25:18 他子孫的住處在他眾弟兄東邊，從哈腓拉直到埃及前的書珥，正在亞述的道上。

¹² This is the account of the family line of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Sarah’s slave, Hagar the Egyptian, bore to Abraham.

¹³ These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, listed in the order of their birth: Nebaioth the firstborn of Ishmael, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, ¹⁴ Mishma, Dumah, Massa, ¹⁵ Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish and Kedemah. ¹⁶ These were the sons of Ishmael, and these are the names of the twelve tribal rulers according to their settlements and camps. ¹⁷ Ishmael lived a hundred and thirty-seven years. He breathed his last and died, and he was gathered to his people. ¹⁸ His descendants settled in the area from Havilah to Shur, near the eastern border of Egypt, as you go toward Ashur. And they lived in hostility toward^[b] all the tribes related to them.

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    這是以實瑪利的譜系，因為他們不是應許之子，就沒有成受亞伯拉罕的福！

創世記25章

                創世記25:1-11   ,

               創世記25:12-18  ,

               創世記25:19-34  ,

創世記25:1-11

25:1 亞伯拉罕又娶了一妻，名叫基土拉。
25:2基土拉給他生了心蘭、約珊、米但、米甸、伊施巴，和書亞。
25:3 約珊生了示巴和底但。底但的子孫是亞書利族、利都是族，和利烏米族。
25:4 米甸的兒子是以法、以弗、哈諾、亞比大，和以勒大。這都是基土拉的子孫。
25:5 亞伯拉罕將一切所有的都給了以撒。
25:6 亞伯拉罕把財物分給他庶出的眾子，趁著自己還在世的時候打發他們離開他的兒子以撒，往東方去。
25:7 亞伯拉罕一生的年日是一百七十五歲。
25:8 亞伯拉罕壽高年邁，氣絕而死，歸到他列祖（原文是本民）那裡。
25:9 他兩個兒子以撒、以實瑪利把他埋葬在麥比拉洞裡。這洞在幔利前、赫人瑣轄的兒子以弗崙的田中，
25:10 就是亞伯拉罕向赫人買的那塊田。亞伯拉罕和他妻子撒拉都葬在那裡。
25:11 亞伯拉罕死了以後，上帝賜福給他的兒子以撒。以撒靠近庇耳‧拉海‧萊居住。

Abraham had taken another wife, whose name was Keturah. ² She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak and Shuah. ³ Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan; the descendants of Dedan were the Ashurites, the Letushites and the Leummites. ⁴ The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanok, Abida and Eldaah. All these were descendants of Keturah.

⁵ Abraham left everything he owned to Isaac. ⁶ But while he was still living, he gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.

⁷ Abraham lived a hundred and seventy-five years. ⁸ Then Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age, an old man and full of years; and he was gathered to his people. ⁹ His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite, ¹⁰ the field Abraham had bought from the Hittites.^[a] There Abraham was buried with his wife Sarah. ¹¹ After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who then lived near Beer LahaiRoi.

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亞伯拉罕並非不能生育，主要的問題是在撒拉。但是不管如何，上帝還是透過撒拉給亞伯拉罕生了一位應許之子，也就是以撒。而亞伯拉罕也知道上帝的應許，所以的財產都給以撒，其他的兒打發他們離開。

然而亞伯拉罕也只有活到一百七十五歲，最後和撒拉埋在一起。不過他還沒有完全得迦南地為業。雖然如此，上帝卻為他預備一座永恆的城，正如希伯來書11章13-16節說：「這些人都是存著信心死的，並沒有得著所應許的；卻從遠處望見，且歡喜迎接，又承認自己在世上是客旅，是寄居的。說這樣話的人是表明自己要找一個家鄉。他們若想念所離開的家鄉，還有可以回去的機會。他們卻羨慕一個更美的家鄉，就是在天上的。所以上帝被稱為他們的上帝，並不以為恥，因為他已經給他們預備了一座城。」

讓我們也來盼望那一個更美的家鄉，就是在天上的。那是上帝為祂所愛的人所預備的，是上帝應許給每一位靠基督而成為亞伯拉罕子孫的人！

箴言24:15-16

24:15 你這惡人，不要埋伏攻擊義人的家；不要毀壞他安居之所。
24:16 因為，義人雖七次跌倒，仍必興起；惡人卻被禍患傾倒。

¹⁵ Do not lurk like a thief near the house of the righteous,
    do not plunder their dwelling place;
¹⁶ for though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again,
    but the wicked stumble when calamity strikes.

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    「義人」指的是有上帝保守的人，這樣的人不是靠自己的好行為，是因為上帝的看顧與保守，所以就不被罪惡所影響與綑綁，聖靈會隨時提醒與提供力量，成為一個敬畏上帝的人。

    也因為這樣，聖經在這裡警告惡人，不要想侵犯義人，正如經文所說：「義人雖七次跌倒，仍必興起」。這裡的「七次」不一定是數目字上的「七」，而是指次數雖然多，卻沒有影響！

    義人之所以可以如此是因為上帝的保守，反而攻擊義人的，卻要受到報應，正如這裡的警告：「惡人卻被禍患傾倒」。因為惡人與上帝為敵，上帝也與他為敵，甚至不搭救他們脫離禍患！

    因此，我們要成為敬畏上帝的義人，不要自以為義，要以基督的義為我們的義，成為倚靠上帝的義人！