Sáng-thế Ký 32
Kinh Thánh Bản Truyền Thống ⇄ NET Bible
So Jacob went on his way and the angels of God met him.
Pag-aaralĐịa danh Ma-ha-na-im — Tên này có nghĩa là “hai trại quân” hay “hai đạo quân.” Gia-cốp nhìn thấy trại quân thiên sứ của Đức Chúa Trời ở cạnh trại quân của chính mình, nên ông đặt tên nơi đó với lòng biết ơn sự bảo vệ của Đức Chúa Trời.When Jacob saw them, he exclaimed, “This is the camp of God!” So he named that place Mahanaim.
Jacob sent messengers on ahead to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the region of Edom.
He commanded them, “This is what you must say to my lord Esau: ‘This is what your servant Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban until now.
I have oxen, donkeys, sheep, and male and female servants. I have sent this message to inform my lord, so that I may find favor in your sight.’”
The messengers returned to Jacob and said, “We went to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you and has four hundred men with him.”
Jacob was very afraid and upset. So he divided the people who were with him into two camps, as well as the flocks, herds, and camels.
“If Esau attacks one camp,” he thought, “then the other camp will be able to escape.”
Then Jacob prayed, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, O Lord, you said to me, ‘Return to your land and to your relatives and I will make you prosper.’
I am not worthy of all the faithful love you have shown your servant. With only my walking stick I crossed the Jordan, but now I have become two camps.
Rescue me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, as well as the mothers with their children.
Pag-aaralBám lấy lời hứa — Giacốp cầu nguyện bằng cách nhắc lại lời hứa của Đức Chúa Trời về dòng dõi đông như cát biển—lời hứa từng được ban cho Áp-ra-ham. Ông đang nại đến lời hứa của Đức Chúa Trời.(GEN 22:17)But you said, ‘I will certainly make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand on the seashore, too numerous to count.’”
Jacob stayed there that night. Then he sent as a gift to his brother Esau
two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.
He entrusted them to his servants, who divided them into herds. He told his servants, “Pass over before me, and keep some distance between one herd and the next.”
He instructed the servant leading the first herd, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘To whom do you belong? Where are you going? Whose herds are you driving?’
then you must say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They have been sent as a gift to my lord Esau. In fact Jacob himself is behind us.’”
He also gave these instructions to the second and third servants, as well as all those who were following the herds, saying, “You must say the same thing to Esau when you meet him.
Pag-aaralNgôn từ chuộc tội — Từ “nguôi giận” dịch từ tiếng Hê-bơ-rơ kipper, cùng một động từ dùng cho việc chuộc tội—ý là che phủ lỗi lầm. Gia-cốp gửi món quà lớn này để khỏa lấp lỗi lầm quá khứ đối với Ê-sau và làm hòa.You must also say, ‘In fact your servant Jacob is behind us.’” Jacob thought, “I will first appease him by sending a gift ahead of me. After that I will meet him. Perhaps he will accept me.”
So the gifts were sent on ahead of him while he spent that night in the camp.
During the night Jacob quickly took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
He took them and sent them across the stream along with all his possessions.
So Jacob was left alone. Then a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
When the man saw that he could not defeat Jacob, he struck the socket of his hip so the socket of Jacob’s hip was dislocated while he wrestled with him.
Then the man said, “Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.” “I will not let you go,” Jacob replied, “unless you bless me.”
The man asked him, “What is your name?” He answered, “Jacob.”
Pag-aaralTên mới Y-sơ-ra-ên — Gia-cốp có nghĩa là “kẻ gót chân” hay “kẻ truất ngôi.” Giờ đây ông trở thành Y-sơ-ra-ên, được giải thích trong văn bản là “vì ngươi đã có vật lộn cùng Đức Chúa Trời và người ta.” Tên mới của ông đánh dấu một thân vị đã thay đổi, được tôi luyện trong đêm vật lộn này.“No longer will your name be Jacob,” the man told him, “but Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have prevailed.”
Then Jacob asked, “Please tell me your name.” “Why do you ask my name?” the man replied. Then he blessed Jacob there.
Pag-aaralMặt Đức Chúa Trời — Tên này có nghĩa là “mặt Đức Chúa Trời.” Gia-cốp nhận định Đấng vật lộn với mình chính là Đức Chúa Trời mà ông diện kiến; sau này Ô-sê gọi Ngài là thiên sứ. Ý chính là Đức Chúa Trời đã gặp Gia-cốp một cách đích thân, và Gia-cốp được bảo toàn mạng sống.(HOS 12:4)So Jacob named the place Peniel, explaining, “Certainly I have seen God face to face and have survived.”
The sun rose over him as he crossed over Penuel, but he was limping because of his hip.
Pag-aaralNguồn gốc phong tục ăn uống — Câu này giải thích nguồn gốc phong tục của người Do Thái là không ăn gân bắp vế, được gọi ở đây là gân của bắp vế. Điều này đã trở thành một lời nhắc nhở thể lý lâu dài về cuộc gặp gỡ giữa Gia-cốp với Đức Chúa Trời.That is why to this day the Israelites do not eat the sinew which is attached to the socket of the hip, because he struck the socket of Jacob’s hip near the attached sinew.
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