創世記31:22-55

31:22 到第三日，有人告訴拉班，雅各逃跑了。
31:23 拉班帶領他的眾弟兄去追趕，追了七日，在基列山就追上了。
31:24 夜間，上帝到亞蘭人拉班那裡，在夢中對他說：「你要小心，不可與雅各說好說歹。」
31:25 拉班追上雅各。雅各在山上支搭帳棚；拉班和他的眾弟兄也在基列山上支搭帳棚。
31:26 拉班對雅各說：「你做的是甚麼事呢？你背著我偷走了，又把我的女兒們帶了去，如同用刀劍擄去的一般。
31:27 你為甚麼暗暗地逃跑，偷著走，並不告訴我，叫我可以歡樂、唱歌、擊鼓、彈琴地送你回去？
31:28 又不容我與外孫和女兒親嘴？你所行的真是愚昧！
31:29 我手中原有能力害你，只是你父親的上帝昨夜對我說：『你要小心，不可與雅各說好說歹。』
31:30 現在你雖然想你父家，不得不去，為甚麼又偷了我的神像呢？」
31:31 雅各回答拉班說：「恐怕你把你的女兒從我奪去，所以我逃跑。
31:32 至於你的神像，你在誰那裡搜出來，就不容誰存活。當著我們的眾弟兄，你認一認，在我這裡有甚麼東西是你的，就拿去。」原來雅各不知道拉結偷了那些神像。
31:33 拉班進了雅各、利亞，並兩個使女的帳棚，都沒有搜出來，就從利亞的帳棚出來，進了拉結的帳棚。
31:34 拉結已經把神像藏在駱駝的馱簍裡，便坐在上頭。拉班摸遍了那帳棚，並沒有摸著。
31:35 拉結對她父親說：「現在我身上不便，不能在你面前起來，求我主不要生氣。」這樣，拉班搜尋神像，竟沒有搜出來。
31:36 雅各就發怒斥責拉班說：「我有甚麼過犯，有甚麼罪惡，你竟這樣火速地追我？
31:37 你摸遍了我一切的家具，你搜出甚麼來呢？可以放在你我弟兄面前，叫他們在你我中間辨別辨別。
31:38 我在你家這二十年，你的母綿羊、母山羊沒有掉過胎。你群中的公羊，我沒有吃過；
31:39 被野獸撕裂的，我沒有帶來給你，是我自己賠上。無論是白日，是黑夜，被偷去的，你都向我索要。
31:40 我白日受盡乾熱，黑夜受盡寒霜，不得合眼睡著，我常是這樣。
31:41 我這二十年在你家裡，為你的兩個女兒服事你十四年，為你的羊群服事你六年，你又十次改了我的工價。
31:42 若不是我父親以撒所敬畏的上帝，就是亞伯拉罕的上帝與我同在，你如今必定打發我空手而去。上帝看見我的苦情和我的勞碌，就在昨夜責備你。」
31:43 拉班回答雅各說：「這女兒是我的女兒，這些孩子是我的孩子，這些羊群也是我的羊群；凡在你眼前的都是我的。我的女兒並她們所生的孩子，我今日能向他們做甚麼呢？
31:44 來吧！你我二人可以立約，作你我中間的證據。」
31:45 雅各就拿一塊石頭立作柱子，
31:46 又對眾弟兄說：「你們堆聚石頭。」他們就拿石頭來堆成一堆，大家便在旁邊吃喝。
31:47 拉班稱那石堆為伊迦爾‧撒哈杜他，雅各卻稱那石堆為迦累得（都是以石堆為證的意思）。
31:48 拉班說：「今日這石堆作你我中間的證據。」因此這地方名叫迦累得，
31:49 又叫米斯巴，意思說：「我們彼此離別以後，願耶和華在你我中間鑒察。
31:50 你若苦待我的女兒，又在我的女兒以外另娶妻，雖沒有人知道，卻有上帝在你我中間作見證。」
31:51 拉班又說：「你看我在你我中間所立的這石堆和柱子。
31:52 這石堆作證據，這柱子也作證據。我必不過這石堆去害你；你也不可過這石堆和柱子來害我。
31:53 但願亞伯拉罕的上帝和拿鶴的上帝，就是他們父親的上帝，在你我中間判斷。」雅各就指著他父親以撒所敬畏的上帝起誓，
31:54 又在山上獻祭，請眾弟兄來吃飯。他們吃了飯，便在山上住宿。
31:55 拉班清早起來，與他外孫和女兒親嘴，給他們祝福，回往自己的地方去了。

 ²² On the third day Laban was told that Jacob had fled. ²³ Taking his relatives with him, he pursued Jacob for seven days and caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead. ²⁴ Then God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”
²⁵ Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and his relatives camped there too. ²⁶ Then Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You’ve deceived me, and you’ve carried off my daughters like captives in war. ²⁷ Why did you run off secretly and deceive me? Why didn’t you tell me, so I could send you away with joy and singing to the music of timbrels and harps? ²⁸ You didn’t even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters goodbye. You have done a foolish thing. ²⁹ I have the power to harm you; but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’ ³⁰ Now you have gone off because you longed to return to your father’s household. But why did you steal my gods?”
³¹ Jacob answered Laban, “I was afraid, because I thought you would take your daughters away from me by force. ³² But if you find anyone who has your gods, that person shall not live. In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself whether there is anything of yours here with me; and if so, take it.” Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the gods.
³³ So Laban went into Jacob’s tent and into Leah’s tent and into the tent of the two female servants, but he found nothing. After he came out of Leah’s tent, he entered Rachel’s tent. ³⁴ Now Rachel had taken the household gods and put them inside her camel’s saddle and was sitting on them. Laban searched through everything in the tent but found nothing.
³⁵ Rachel said to her father, “Don’t be angry, my lord, that I cannot stand up in your presence; I’m having my period.” So he searched but could not find the household gods.
³⁶ Jacob was angry and took Laban to task. “What is my crime?” he asked Laban. “How have I wronged you that you hunt me down? ³⁷ Now that you have searched through all my goods, what have you found that belongs to your household? Put it here in front of your relatives and mine, and let them judge between the two of us.
³⁸ “I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks. ³⁹ I did not bring you animals torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from me for whatever was stolen by day or night. ⁴⁰ This was my situation: The heat consumed me in the daytime and the cold at night, and sleep fled from my eyes. ⁴¹ It was like this for the twenty years I was in your household. I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, and you changed my wages ten times. ⁴² If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would surely have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my hardship and the toil of my hands, and last night he rebuked you.”
⁴³ Laban answered Jacob, “The women are my daughters, the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks. All you see is mine. Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine, or about the children they have borne? ⁴⁴ Come now, let’s make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between us.”
⁴⁵ So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar. ⁴⁶ He said to his relatives, “Gather some stones.” So they took stones and piled them in a heap, and they ate there by the heap. ⁴⁷ Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.^[b]
48 Laban said, “This heap is a witness between you and me today.” That is why it was called Galeed. ⁴⁹ It was also called Mizpah,^[c] because he said, “May the Lord keep watch between you and me when we are away from each other. ⁵⁰ If you mistreat my daughters or if you take any wives besides my daughters, even though no one is with us, remember that God is a witness between you and me.”
⁵¹ Laban also said to Jacob, “Here is this heap, and here is this pillar I have set up between you and me. ⁵² This heap is a witness, and this pillar is a witness, that I will not go past this heap to your side to harm you and that you will not go past this heap and pillar to my side to harm me. ⁵³ May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.”
So Jacob took an oath in the name of the Fear of his father Isaac. ⁵⁴ He offered a sacrifice there in the hill country and invited his relatives to a meal. After they had eaten, they spent the night there.
⁵⁵ Early the next morning Laban kissed his grandchildren and his daughters and blessed them. Then he left and returned home.

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    雅各偷跑被拉班發現，雖然彼此有爭執，最後在上帝面前立石為證，互相保證不會侵犯彼此！

    「立石為證」讓我們想到，我們和上帝之間的「活石」或「磐石」，就是耶穌基督！上帝看見耶穌基督，就想到祂赦免我們一切的罪，因著耶穌基督！而我們看見耶穌基督，就想到我們是被上帝拯救的，我們是因這耶穌基督渴已與上帝同在！

    有形的石頭，有一天會被風化或是地面凹陷，石頭就不見了！但是耶穌基督卻是永不改變，我們與上帝的關係是永不更改的！

創世記32章

       創世記32:1-21   ,      

       創世記32:22-32  ,  創世記32:26  , 創世記第32：26 , 

       創世記32:28  ,  創世記32:28 ,

創世記31章

       創世記31:1-21  ,

      創世記31:22-55  ,

創世記31:1-21

31:1 雅各聽見拉班的兒子們有話說：「雅各把我們父親所有的都奪了去，並藉著我們父親的，得了這一切的榮耀（或譯：財）。」
31:2 雅各見拉班的氣色向他不如從前了。
31:3 耶和華對雅各說：「你要回你祖、你父之地，到你親族那裡去，我必與你同在。」
31:4 雅各就打發人，叫拉結和利亞到田野羊群那裡來，
31:5 對她們說：「我看你們父親的氣色向我不如從前了；但我父親的上帝向來與我同在。
31:6 你們也知道，我盡了我的力量服事你們的父親。
31:7 你們的父親欺哄我，十次改了我的工價；然而上帝不容他害我。
31:8 他若說：『有點的歸你作工價』，羊群所生的都有點；他若說：『有紋的歸你作工價』，羊群所生的都有紋。
31:9 這樣，上帝把你們父親的牲畜奪來賜給我了。
31:10 羊配合的時候，我夢中舉目一看，見跳母羊的公羊都是有紋的、有點的、有花斑的。
31:11 上帝的使者在那夢中呼叫我說：『雅各。』我說：『我在這裡。』
31:12 他說：『你舉目觀看，跳母羊的公羊都是有紋的、有點的、有花斑的；凡拉班向你所做的，我都看見了。
31:13 我是伯特利的上帝；你在那裡用油澆過柱子，向我許過願。現今你起來，離開這地，回你本地去吧！』」
31:14 拉結和利亞回答雅各說：「在我們父親的家裡還有我們可得的分嗎？還有我們的產業嗎？
31:15 我們不是被他當作外人嗎？因為他賣了我們，吞了我們的價值。
31:16 上帝從我們父親所奪出來的一切財物，那就是我們和我們孩子們的。現今凡上帝所吩咐你的，你只管去行吧！」
31:17 雅各起來，使他的兒子和妻子都騎上駱駝，
31:18 又帶著他在巴旦‧亞蘭所得的一切牲畜和財物，往迦南地、他父親以撒那裡去了。
31:19 當時拉班剪羊毛去了，拉結偷了他父親家中的神像。
31:20 雅各背著亞蘭人拉班偷走了，並不告訴他，
31:21 就帶著所有的逃跑。他起身過大河，面向基列山行去。

 Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying, “Jacob has taken everything our father owned and has gained all this wealth from what belonged to our father.” ² And Jacob noticed that Laban’s attitude toward him was not what it had been.

³ Then the Lord said to Jacob, “Go back to the land of your fathers and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”
⁴ So Jacob sent word to Rachel and Leah to come out to the fields where his flocks were. ⁵ He said to them, “I see that your father’s attitude toward me is not what it was before, but the God of my father has been with me. ⁶ You know that I’ve worked for your father with all my strength, ⁷ yet your father has cheated me by changing my wages ten times. However, God has not allowed him to harm me. ⁸ If he said, ‘The speckled ones will be your wages,’ then all the flocks gave birth to speckled young; and if he said, ‘The streaked ones will be your wages,’ then all the flocks bore streaked young. ⁹ So God has taken away your father’s livestock and has given them to me.
¹⁰ “In breeding season I once had a dream in which I looked up and saw that the male goats mating with the flock were streaked, speckled or spotted. ¹¹ The angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob.’ I answered, ‘Here I am.’ ¹² And he said, ‘Look up and see that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled or spotted, for I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you. ¹³ I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and where you made a vow to me. Now leave this land at once and go back to your native land.’”
¹⁴ Then Rachel and Leah replied, “Do we still have any share in the inheritance of our father’s estate? ¹⁵ Does he not regard us as foreigners? Not only has he sold us, but he has used up what was paid for us. ¹⁶ Surely all the wealth that God took away from our father belongs to us and our children. So do whatever God has told you.”
¹⁷ Then Jacob put his children and his wives on camels, ¹⁸ and he drove all his livestock ahead of him, along with all the goods he had accumulated in Paddan Aram,^[a] to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan.
¹⁹ When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household gods. ²⁰ Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him he was running away. ²¹ So he fled with all he had, crossed the Euphrates River, and headed for the hill country of Gilead.

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    雅各偷偷回迦南，不讓拉班知道！因為雅各清楚拉班想利用他，絕對不會讓他回去的！

箴言25:4-5

25:4 除去銀子的渣滓就有銀子出來，銀匠能以做器皿。
25:5 除去王面前的惡人，國位就靠公義堅立。

⁴ Remove the dross from the silver,
    and a silversmith can produce a vessel;
⁵ remove wicked officials from the king’s presence,
    and his throne will be established through righteousness.

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    煉銀有一種方法叫吹灰法，就是讓銀礦熔化成湯，雜質就會浮起來，然會用吹的方式，將雜質吹掉，就會留下銀，如此就可以將銀精煉出來！正如這裡所說：「除去銀子的渣滓就有銀子出來，銀匠能以做器皿。」

    而作者把這個觀念延伸到王怎樣用人，所以盡接著說：「除去王面前的惡人，國位就靠公義堅立」。也因此，王權的建立要合乎上帝的公義，如此才能有永續的經營，讓國永遠堅立！

    國是如此，教會也要如此經營，要靠著主的恩典除去罪惡的影響，教教會不只是地位上聖潔，也朝著真實的聖潔努力，好彰顯上帝的榮耀！

創世記30:25-43

30:25 拉結生約瑟之後，雅各對拉班說：「請打發我走，叫我回到我本鄉本土去。
30:26 請你把我服事你所得的妻子和兒女給我，讓我走；我怎樣服事你，你都知道。」
30:27 拉班對他說：「我若在你眼前蒙恩，請你仍與我同住，因為我已算定，耶和華賜福與我是為你的緣故」；
30:28 又說：「請你定你的工價，我就給你。」
30:29 雅各對他說：「我怎樣服事你，你的牲畜在我手裡怎樣，是你知道的。
30:30 我未來之先，你所有的很少，現今卻發大眾多，耶和華隨我的腳步賜福與你。如今，我甚麼時候才為自己興家立業呢？」
30:31 拉班說：「我當給你甚麼呢？」雅各說：「甚麼你也不必給我，只有一件事，你若應承，我便仍舊牧放你的羊群。
30:32 今天我要走遍你的羊群，把綿羊中凡有點的、有斑的，和黑色的，並山羊中凡有斑的、有點的，都挑出來；將來這一等的就算我的工價。
30:33 以後你來查看我的工價，凡在我手裡的山羊不是有點有斑的，綿羊不是黑色的，那就算是我偷的；這樣便可證出我的公義來。」
30:34 拉班說：「好啊！我情願照著你的話行。」
30:35 當日，拉班把有紋的、有斑的公山羊，有點的、有斑的、有雜白紋的母山羊，並黑色的綿羊，都挑出來，交在他兒子們的手下，
30:36 又使自己和雅各相離三天的路程。雅各就牧養拉班其餘的羊。
30:37 雅各拿楊樹、杏樹、楓樹的嫩枝，將皮剝成白紋，使枝子露出白的來，
30:38 將剝了皮的枝子，對著羊群，插在飲羊的水溝裡和水槽裡，羊來喝的時候，牝牡配合。
30:39 羊對著枝子配合，就生下有紋的、有點的、有斑的來。
30:40 雅各把羊羔分出來，使拉班的羊與這有紋和黑色的羊相對，把自己的羊另放一處，不叫他和拉班的羊混雜。
30:41 到羊群肥壯配合的時候，雅各就把枝子插在水溝裡，使羊對著枝子配合。
30:42 只是到羊瘦弱配合的時候就不插枝子。這樣，瘦弱的就歸拉班，肥壯的就歸雅各。
30:43 於是雅各極其發大，得了許多的羊群、僕婢、駱駝，和驢。

²⁵ After Rachel gave birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so I can go back to my own homeland. ²⁶ Give me my wives and children, for whom I have served you, and I will be on my way. You know how much work I’ve done for you.”
²⁷ But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me because of you.” ²⁸ He added, “Name your wages, and I will pay them.”
²⁹ Jacob said to him, “You know how I have worked for you and how your livestock has fared under my care. ³⁰ The little you had before I came has increased greatly, and the Lord has blessed you wherever I have been. But now, when may I do something for my own household?”
³¹ “What shall I give you?” he asked.
“Don’t give me anything,” Jacob replied. “But if you will do this one thing for me, I will go on tending your flocks and watching over them: ³² Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb and every spotted or speckled goat. They will be my wages. ³³ And my honesty will testify for me in the future, whenever you check on the wages you have paid me. Any goat in my possession that is not speckled or spotted, or any lamb that is not dark-colored, will be considered stolen.”
³⁴ “Agreed,” said Laban. “Let it be as you have said.” ³⁵ That same day he removed all the male goats that were streaked or spotted, and all the speckled or spotted female goats (all that had white on them) and all the dark-colored lambs, and he placed them in the care of his sons. ³⁶ Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob continued to tend the rest of Laban’s flocks.
³⁷ Jacob, however, took fresh-cut branches from poplar, almond and plane trees and made white stripes on them by peeling the bark and exposing the white inner wood of the branches. ³⁸ Then he placed the peeled branches in all the watering troughs, so that they would be directly in front of the flocks when they came to drink. When the flocks were in heat and came to drink, ³⁹ they mated in front of the branches. And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted. ⁴⁰ Jacob set apart the young of the flock by themselves, but made the rest face the streaked and dark-colored animals that belonged to Laban. Thus he made separate flocks for himself and did not put them with Laban’s animals. ⁴¹ Whenever the stronger females were in heat, Jacob would place the branches in the troughs in front of the animals so they would mate near the branches, ⁴² but if the animals were weak, he would not place them there. So the weak animals went to Laban and the strong ones to Jacob. ⁴³ In this way the man grew exceedingly prosperous and came to own large flocks, and female and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

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    拉班耍詭計，上帝卻讓雅各有智慧來面對，使他能夠有豐盛的財富。

      人要怎樣惡待我們是無法防範，但上帝總是有辦法讓我們得勝有餘！