创世记 24:1-25:11
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
亚伯拉罕为以撒娶妻
24 亚伯拉罕已经年迈，耶和华在一切的事上都赐福给他。 2 亚伯拉罕对他的老总管说：“请你把手放在我大腿底下， 3 我要你凭耶和华——掌管天地的上帝起誓，你不会找这迦南的女子做我儿子的妻子。 4 你要回到我的家乡，在我的亲族中为以撒物色妻子。” 5 老总管问他：“如果那女子不肯跟我到这里来，我要把你儿子带回你的家乡吗？” 6 亚伯拉罕说：“你千万不可带我的儿子回那里！ 7 因为带领我离开父家和本乡的耶和华——天上的主，曾经向我说话，起誓应许把这片土地赐给我的后代。祂必派天使在你前面引路，帮助你在那里为我儿子找到妻子。 8 如果那女子不肯跟你来，你也算履行了你向我起的誓，只是你不可带我儿子回那里。” 9 于是，老总管就把手放在他主人亚伯拉罕的大腿底下，为这事向他起誓。
10 老总管带着主人的十匹骆驼和各种上好的礼物，启程前往美索不达米亚，来到拿鹤住的城。 11 黄昏，妇女们出来打水的时候，他让骆驼跪在城外的井旁， 12 然后祷告说：“我主人亚伯拉罕的上帝耶和华啊，求你施恩给我家主人亚伯拉罕，让事情今天能够成就。 13 现在，我站在这泉水旁，城里的少女正出来打水。 14 如果我对哪个少女说‘请放下你的水罐，让我喝点水’，如果她说‘请喝，我也打水给你的骆驼喝’，愿那女子做你为自己的仆人以撒选定的妻子。这样，我可以知道你施恩给我的主人了。”
老总管井旁遇利百加
15 老总管的话还没有说完，就有一位名叫利百加的少女肩上扛着水罐走出来。她是彼土利的女儿，彼土利是亚伯拉罕的兄弟拿鹤和密迦所生的儿子。 16 利百加长得非常美丽，是个处女，没有男人亲近过她。她下到井旁，把水罐盛满了水后上来。 17 老总管跑上前去对她说：“求你给我一点水喝。” 18 她回答说：“我主，请喝！”说完，立刻放下水罐，托在手上让他喝。 19 等他喝完以后，利百加又说：“我再为你的骆驼打些水来，让它们喝个饱。” 20 于是，她马上把水罐里的水倒进水槽里，又跑到井边为所有的骆驼打水。 21 当时，老总管在一旁静静地注视着利百加，要看看耶和华是否使他此行顺利。
22 骆驼喝过水以后，老总管拿出一只约六克重的金环和一对约一百一十克重的金镯给利百加， 23 对她说：“请问你是谁的女儿？你父亲家里有地方让我们住宿吗？” 24 利百加回答说：“我是彼土利的女儿，我父亲是拿鹤和密迦的儿子。 25 我家里有充足的粮草，也有地方让你留宿。” 26 老总管听了，就俯伏敬拜耶和华， 27 说：“我主人亚伯拉罕的上帝耶和华当受称颂，因为祂一直以慈爱和信实对待我的主人，引导我一路走到我主人兄弟的家里。”
28 利百加跑回家中，把这事告诉了母亲和家人。 29 利百加有个哥哥名叫拉班。 30 他看见妹妹的金环和手上的金镯，听了她叙述老总管的话，就跑到井旁，见老总管跟骆驼仍然站在那里， 31 便对他说：“你这蒙耶和华赐福的人，请到我家。为什么站在外面呢？我已经为你预备好了房间，也为骆驼预备了地方。” 32 老总管就到了拉班的家里，拉班卸下骆驼背上的东西，给骆驼喂上草料，打水给老总管和随行的人洗脚。 33 他们备好了晚餐给他吃，老总管却说：“不，等我说明来意后再吃。”拉班说：“请说。”
34 老总管说：“我是亚伯拉罕的仆人。 35 耶和华赐给我主人极大的福气，使他非常富有。耶和华赐给他牛群、羊群、金子、银子、男女仆婢、骆驼和驴。 36 我主人的妻子撒拉在晚年生了一个儿子，主人把所有的财产都给了他。 37 主人要我起誓，他说，‘你不可以给我的儿子娶迦南女子为妻， 38 你要到我家乡的亲族中为我儿子物色妻子。’ 39 我问我的主人，‘如果那女子不愿意跟我回来怎么办？’ 40 他说，‘我一向事奉的耶和华必会派天使与你同行，使你一路顺利，为我儿子在家乡的亲族中物色妻子。 41 你去就是履行了你向我起的誓，如果我的亲族不肯把女子交给你，你也算履行了你向我起的誓。’
42 “所以，今天我来到井旁时曾祷告说，‘我主人亚伯拉罕的上帝耶和华啊，求你使我一路顺利。 43 我现在站在井旁，有女子出来打水的时候，我会向她要水喝， 44 如果她说，请喝，我也打水给你的骆驼喝，就让她做你为我家主人的儿子预备的妻子吧。’
45 “我心中的话还没有说完，就看见利百加肩上扛着水罐到井旁打水。我上前向她要水喝， 46 她就连忙放下肩上的水罐，说，‘请喝，我也打水给你的骆驼喝。’我喝了，她又打水给骆驼喝。 47 我问她是谁家的女儿，她说，‘是拿鹤和密迦的儿子彼土利的女儿。’我就替她戴上金鼻环和金手镯， 48 然后俯伏敬拜耶和华——我主人亚伯拉罕的上帝，因为祂引导我走正确的路，找到了主人兄弟的孙女儿给主人的儿子做妻子。 49 现在，你们若愿意以慈爱和信实对待我的主人，答应这门亲事，请告诉我；如果不答应，也请告诉我，好让我知道应该怎么办。”
50 拉班和彼土利回答说：“既然是耶和华的安排，我们不能再多说什么。 51 你看，利百加就在这里，你可以照耶和华的话，把她带回去给你主人的儿子做妻子。” 52 亚伯拉罕的仆人听见这话，就俯伏在地上敬拜耶和华， 53 然后拿出金银首饰和衣裳送给利百加，又把贵重的礼物送给她的哥哥和母亲。 54 老总管和随行的人用过晚饭以后，在那里住了一夜。第二天早晨，老总管说：“请让我返回我主人那里。” 55 但利百加的哥哥和母亲说：“让利百加和我们住上十来天再去吧！” 56 可是，老总管说：“既然耶和华已经使我一路顺利，请你们不要挽留我，请让我回到我主人那里。” 57 他们说：“我们问问利百加的意见吧。” 58 他们就叫来利百加，问她：“你愿意跟这个人同去吗？”利百加说：“我愿意！” 59 于是，他们让利百加和她的奶妈跟老总管及随行的人一同离去， 60 并为利百加祝福，说：
“我们的妹妹啊，
愿你成为千万人之母！
愿你的后代战胜仇敌！”
以撒与利百加成婚
61 于是，利百加和她的婢女们准备妥当，骑上骆驼，跟着老总管离去。
62 那时，以撒住在南地，他刚从庇耳·拉海·莱回来。 63 傍晚的时候，以撒来到田间默想，他抬头一看，见一队骆驼迎面而来。 64 利百加抬头看见以撒，就从骆驼上下来， 65 问老总管：“那从田间来迎接我们的是谁？”老总管说：“是我的主人！”利百加听了就蒙上面纱。 66 老总管向以撒讲述整个事情的经过。 67 以撒就带利百加进入他母亲撒拉的帐篷，娶她为妻，并且很爱她。自从母亲去世后，以撒这才得到安慰。
亚伯拉罕的其他后代
25 亚伯拉罕又娶了基土拉。 2 基土拉为亚伯拉罕生了心兰、约珊、米但、米甸、伊施巴和书亚。 3 约珊生了示巴和底但，底但的子孙是亚书利族、利都示族和利乌米族。 4 米甸的儿子是以法、以弗、哈诺、亚比大和以勒大。这些都是基土拉的子孙。 5 亚伯拉罕把所有的财产都给了以撒。 6 他趁自己还在世的时候，把一些礼物送给他的妾所生的儿子们，让他们离开他的儿子以撒到东方去。
7 亚伯拉罕活了一百七十五岁， 8 享尽天年，寿终正寝，归到他祖先那里。 9 他的两个儿子以撒和以实玛利把他安葬在麦比拉洞，那山洞在幔利附近、赫人琐辖的儿子以弗仑的地里。 10 那块地是亚伯拉罕向赫人买的，他和妻子撒拉葬在一起。 11 亚伯拉罕去世以后，上帝赐福给他的儿子以撒。以撒住在庇耳·拉海·莱附近。
Genesis 24:1-25:11
Christian Standard Bible
A Wife for Isaac
24 Abraham was now old, getting on in years,[a](A) and the Lord had blessed him in everything. 2 Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his household who managed all he owned, “Place your hand under my thigh,(B) 3 and I will have you swear by the Lord, God of heaven and God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I live,(C) 4 but will go to my land and my family to take a wife for my son Isaac.”
5 The servant said to him, “Suppose the woman is unwilling to follow me to this land? Should I have your son go back to the land you came from?”
6 Abraham answered him, “Make sure that you don’t take my son back there. 7 The Lord, the God of heaven,(D) who took me from my father’s house and from my native land,(E) who spoke to me and swore to me, ‘I will give this land to your offspring’[b](F)—he will send his angel before you,(G) and you can take a wife for my son from there. 8 If the woman is unwilling to follow you, then you are free from this oath to me,(H) but don’t let my son go back there.” 9 So the servant placed his hand under his master Abraham’s thigh and swore an oath to him concerning this matter.
10 The servant took ten of his master’s camels, and with all kinds of his master’s goods in hand, he went to Aram-naharaim, to Nahor’s town. 11 At evening, the time when women went out to draw water, he made the camels kneel beside a well outside the town.
12 “Lord, God of my master Abraham,” he prayed, “make this happen for me today,(I) and show kindness to my master Abraham. 13 I am standing here(J) at the spring where the daughters of the men of the town are coming out to draw water. 14 Let the girl to whom I say, ‘Please lower your water jug so that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I’ll water your camels also’—let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master.”
15 Before he had finished speaking, there was Rebekah—daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah,(K) the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor—coming with a jug on her shoulder. 16 Now the girl was very beautiful,(L) a virgin—no man had been intimate with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came up. 17 Then the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please let me have a little water from your jug.”
18 She replied, “Drink, my lord.” She quickly lowered her jug to her hand and gave him a drink. 19 When she had finished giving him a drink, she said, “I’ll also draw water for your camels until they have had enough to drink.”[c] 20 She quickly emptied her jug into the trough and hurried to the well again to draw water. She drew water for all his camels 21 while the man silently watched her to see whether or not the Lord had made his journey a success.
22 As the camels finished drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing half a shekel, and for her wrists two bracelets weighing ten shekels of gold. 23 “Whose daughter are you?” he asked. “Please tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”
24 She answered him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor.” 25 She also said to him, “We have plenty of straw and feed and a place to spend the night.”
26 Then the man knelt low, worshiped the Lord,(M) 27 and said, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not withheld his kindness and faithfulness from my master.(N) As for me, the Lord has led me on the journey to the house of my master’s relatives.”
28 The girl ran and told her mother’s household about these things. 29 Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban,(O) and Laban ran out to the man at the spring. 30 As soon as he had seen the ring and the bracelets on his sister’s wrists, and when he had heard his sister Rebekah’s words—“The man said this to me!”—he went to the man. He was standing there by the camels at the spring.
31 Laban said, “Come, you who are blessed by the Lord.(P) Why are you standing out here? I have prepared the house and a place for the camels.” 32 So the man came to the house, and the camels were unloaded.(Q) Straw and feed were given to the camels, and water was brought to wash his feet and the feet of the men with him.
33 A meal was set before him, but he said, “I will not eat until I have said what I have to say.”
So Laban said, “Please speak.”
34 “I am Abraham’s servant,” he said. 35 “The Lord has greatly blessed my master, and he has become rich. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male and female slaves, and camels and donkeys. 36 Sarah, my master’s wife, bore a son to my master in her[d] old age,(R) and he has given him everything he owns.(S) 37 My master put me under this oath: ‘You will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I live 38 but will go to my father’s family and to my clan to take a wife for my son.’ 39 But I said to my master, ‘Suppose the woman will not come back with me?’ 40 He said to me, ‘The Lord before whom I have walked(T) will send his angel with you and make your journey a success, and you will take a wife for my son from my clan and from my father’s family. 41 Then you will be free from my oath if you go to my family and they do not give her to you—you will be free from my oath.’
42 “Today when I came to the spring, I prayed: Lord, God of my master Abraham, if only you will make my journey successful! 43 I am standing here at a spring. Let the young woman[e] who comes out to draw water, and I say to her, ‘Please let me drink a little water from your jug,’ 44 and who responds to me, ‘Drink, and I’ll draw water for your camels also’—let her be the woman the Lord has appointed for my master’s son.
45 “Before I had finished praying silently,(U) there was Rebekah coming with her jug on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her, ‘Please let me have a drink.’ 46 She quickly lowered her jug from her shoulder and said, ‘Drink, and I’ll water your camels also.’ So I drank, and she also watered the camels. 47 Then I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She responded, ‘The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.’ So I put the ring on her nose(V) and the bracelets on her wrists. 48 Then I knelt low, worshiped the Lord, and blessed the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who guided me on the right way to take the granddaughter of my master’s brother for his son. 49 Now, if you are going to show kindness and faithfulness to my master,(W) tell me; if not, tell me, and I will go elsewhere.”[f]
50 Laban and Bethuel answered, “This is from the Lord; we have no choice in the matter.[g](X) 51 Rebekah is here in front of you. Take her and go, and let her be a wife for your master’s son, just as the Lord has spoken.”
52 When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed to the ground before the Lord. 53 Then he brought out objects of silver and gold, and garments, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious gifts to her brother and her mother. 54 Then he and the men with him ate and drank and spent the night.
When they got up in the morning, he said, “Send me to my master.”
55 But her brother and mother said, “Let the girl stay with us for about ten days. Then she[h] can go.”
56 But he responded to them, “Do not delay me, since the Lord has made my journey a success. Send me away so that I may go to my master.”
57 So they said, “Let’s call the girl and ask her opinion.”[i]
58 They called Rebekah and said to her, “Will you go with this man?”
She replied, “I will go.” 59 So they sent away their sister Rebekah with the one who had nursed and raised her,[j](Y) and Abraham’s servant and his men.
60 They blessed Rebekah, saying to her:
Our sister, may you become
thousands upon ten thousands.(Z)
May your offspring possess
the city gates of their[k] enemies.(AA)
61 Then Rebekah and her female servants got up, mounted the camels, and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and left.
62 Now Isaac was returning from Beer-lahai-roi,[l](AB) for he was living in the Negev region. 63 In the early evening Isaac went out to walk[m] in the field, and looking up he saw camels coming. 64 Rebekah looked up, and when she saw Isaac, she got down from her camel 65 and asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?”
The servant answered, “It is my master.” So she took her veil and covered herself. 66 Then the servant told Isaac everything he had done.
67 And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah to be his wife. Isaac loved her, and he was comforted after his mother’s death.(AC)
Abraham’s Other Wife and Sons
25 Abraham had taken[n] another wife, whose name was Keturah,(AD) 2 and she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. 3 Jokshan fathered Sheba and Dedan. Dedan’s sons were the Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim. 4 And Midian’s sons were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were sons of Keturah. 5 Abraham gave everything he owned to Isaac.(AE) 6 But Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines, and while he was still alive he sent them eastward, away from his son Isaac, to the land of the East.(AF)
Abraham’s Death
7 This is the length of Abraham’s life:[o] 175 years. 8 He took his last breath and died at a good old age,(AG) old and contented,[p] and he was gathered to his people.(AH) 9 His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah(AI) near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hethite. 10 This was the field that Abraham bought from the Hethites.(AJ) Abraham was buried there with his wife Sarah. 11 After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who lived near Beer-lahai-roi.(AK)
Footnotes
- 24:1 Lit days
- 24:7 Lit seed
- 24:19 Lit they are finished drinking
- 24:36 Sam, LXX read his
- 24:43 Or the virgin
- 24:49 Lit go to the right or to the left
- 24:50 Lit we cannot say to you anything bad or good
- 24:55 Or you
- 24:57 Lit mouth
- 24:59 Lit with her wet nurse; Gn 35:8
- 24:60 Lit his
- 24:62 = A Well of the Living One Who Sees Me
- 24:63 Or pray, or meditate; Hb obscure
- 25:1 Or Abraham took
- 25:7 Lit And these are the days of the years of the life of Abraham that he lived
- 25:8 Sam, LXX, Syr read full of days
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