उत्पत्ति 32
1 और याकूब ने भी अपना मार्ग लिया और परमेश्वर के दूत उसे आ मिले।
2 उन को देखते ही याकूब ने कहा, यह तो परमेश्वर का दल है सो उसने उस स्थान का नाम महनैम रखा॥
3 तब याकूब ने सेईर देश में, अर्थात एदोम देश में, अपने भाई ऐसाव के पास अपने आगे दूत भेज दिए।
4 और उसने उन्हें यह आज्ञा दी, कि मेरे प्रभु ऐसाव से यों कहना; कि तेरा दास याकूब तुझ से यों कहता है, कि मैं लाबान के यहां परदेशी हो कर अब तक रहा;
5 और मेरे पास गाय-बैल, गदहे, भेड़-बकरियां, और दास-दासियां है: सो मैं ने अपने प्रभु के पास इसलिये संदेशा भेजा है, कि तेरी अनुग्रह की दृष्टि मुझ पर हो।
6 वे दूत याकूब के पास लौट के कहने लगे, हम तेरे भाई ऐसाव के पास गए थे, और वह भी तुझ से भेंट करने को चार सौ पुरूष संग लिये हुए चला आता है।
7 तब याकूब निपट डर गया, और संकट में पड़ा: और यह सोच कर, अपने संग वालों के, और भेड़-बकरियों, और गाय-बैलों, और ऊंटो के भी अलग अलग दो दल कर लिये,
8 कि यदि ऐसाव आकर पहिले दल को मारने लगे, तो दूसरा दल भाग कर बच जाएगा।
9 फिर याकूब ने कहा, हे यहोवा, हे मेरे दादा इब्राहीम के परमेश्वर, तू ने तो मुझ से कहा, कि अपने देश और जन्म भूमि में लौट जा, और मैं तेरी भलाई करूंगा:
10 तू ने जो जो काम अपनी करूणा और सच्चाई से अपने दास के साथ किए हैं, कि मैं जो अपनी छड़ी ही ले कर इस यरदन नदी के पार उतर आया, सो अब मेरे दो दल हो गए हैं, तेरे ऐसे ऐसे कामों में से मैं एक के भी योग्य तो नहीं हूं।
11 मेरी विनती सुन कर मुझे मेरे भाई ऐसाव के हाथ से बचा: मैं तो उससे डरता हूं, कहीं ऐसा ने हो कि वह आकर मुझे और मां समेत लड़कों को भी मार डाले।
12 तू ने तो कहा है, कि मैं निश्चय तेरी भलाई करूंगा, और तेरे वंश को समुद्र की बालू के किनकों के समान बहुत करूंगा, जो बहुतायत के मारे गिने नहीं जो सकते।
13 और उसने उस दिन की रात वहीं बिताई; और जो कुछ उसके पास था उस में से अपने भाई ऐसाव की भेंट के लिये छांट छांट कर निकाला;
14 अर्थात दो सौ बकरियां, और बीस बकरे, और दो सौ भेड़ें, और बीस मेढ़े,
15 और बच्चों समेत दूध देने वाली तीस ऊंटनियां, और चालीस गायें, और दस बैल, और बीस गदहियां और उनके दस बच्चे।
16 इन को उसने झुण्ड झुण्ड करके, अपने दासों को सौंप कर उन से कहा, मेरे आगे बढ़ जाओ; और झुण्डों के बीच बीच में अन्तर रखो।
17 फिर उसने अगले झुण्ड के रखवाले को यह आज्ञा दी, कि जब मेरा भाई ऐसाव तुझे मिले, और पूछने लगे, कि तू किस का दास है, और कहां जाता है, और ये जो तेरे आगे आगे हैं, सो किस के हैं?
18 तब कहना, कि यह तेरे दास याकूब के हैं। हे मेरे प्रभु ऐसाव, ये भेंट के लिये तेरे पास भेजे गए हैं, और वह आप भी हमारे पीछे पीछे आ रहा है।
19 और उसने दूसरे और तीसरे रखवालों को भी, वरन उस सभों को जो झुण्डों के पीछे पीछे थे ऐसी ही आज्ञा दी, कि जब ऐसाव तुम को मिले तब इसी प्रकार उससे कहना।
20 और यह भी कहना, कि तेरा दास याकूब हमारे पीछे पीछे आ रहा है। क्योंकि उसने यह सोचा, कि यह भेंट जो मेरे आगे आगे जाती है, इसके द्वारा मैं उसके क्रोध को शान्त करके तब उसका दर्शन करूंगा; हो सकता है वह मुझ से प्रसन्न हो जाए।
21 सो वह भेंट याकूब से पहिले पार उतर गई, और वह आप उस रात को छावनी में रहा॥
22 उसी रात को वह उठा और अपनी दोनों स्त्रियों, और दोनों लौंडियों, और ग्यारहों लड़कों को संग ले कर घाट से यब्बोक नदी के पार उतर गया।
23 और उसने उन्हें उस नदी के पार उतार दिया वरन अपना सब कुछ पार उतार दिया।
24 और याकूब आप अकेला रह गया; तब कोई पुरूष आकर पह फटने तक उससे मल्लयुद्ध करता रहा।
25 जब उसने देखा, कि मैं याकूब पर प्रबल नहीं होता, तब उसकी जांघ की नस को छूआ; सो याकूब की जांघ की नस उससे मल्लयुद्ध करते ही करते चढ़ गई।
26 तब उसने कहा, मुझे जाने दे, क्योंकि भोर हुआ चाहता है; याकूब ने कहा जब तक तू मुझे आशीर्वाद न दे, तब तक मैं तुझे जाने न दूंगा।
27 और उसने याकूब से पूछा, तेरा नाम क्या है? उसने कहा याकूब।
28 उसने कहा तेरा नाम अब याकूब नहीं, परन्तु इस्राएल होगा, क्योंकि तू परमेश्वर से और मनुष्यों से भी युद्ध कर के प्रबल हुआ है।
29 याकूब ने कहा, मैं बिनती करता हूं, मुझे अपना नाम बता। उसने कहा, तू मेरा नाम क्यों पूछता है? तब उसने उसको वहीं आशीर्वाद दिया।
30 तब याकूब ने यह कह कर उस स्थान का नाम पनीएल रखा: कि परमेश्वर को आम्हने साम्हने देखने पर भी मेरा प्राण बच गया है।
31 पनूएल के पास से चलते चलते सूर्य उदय हो गया, और वह जांघ से लंगड़ाता था।
32 इस्राएली जो पशुओं की जांघ की जोड़ वाले जंघानस को आज के दिन तक नहीं खाते, इसका कारण यही है, कि उस पुरूष ने याकूब की जांघ की जोड़ में जंघानस को छूआ था॥
1 And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
2 And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God’s host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
3 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
4 And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now:
5 And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight.
6 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.
7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;
8 And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.
9 And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the Lord which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:
10 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.
11 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.
12 And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
13 And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;
14 Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,
15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.
16 And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.
17 And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?
18 Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob’s; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us.
19 And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him.
20 And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me.
21 So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company.
22 And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.
23 And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.
24 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.
26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
27 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.
28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
29 And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
31 And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.
32 Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh in the sinew that shrank.
1 And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,
2 The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,
3 And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.
4 Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage.
5 But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:
6 And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them.
7 But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
8 Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.
9 Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.
10 So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.
11 And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:
12 And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.
13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
14 For many are called, but few are chosen.
15 Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.
16 And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men.
17 Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not?
18 But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?
19 Shew me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny.
20 And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription?
21 They say unto him, Caesar’s. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.
22 When they had heard these words, they marvelled, and left him, and went their way.
23 The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him,
24 Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
25 Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother:
26 Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh.
27 And last of all the woman died also.
28 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her.
29 Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
30 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
31 But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,
32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
33 And when the multitude heard this, they were astonished at his doctrine.
34 But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.
35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,
36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
41 While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,
42 Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The Son of David.
43 He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying,
44 The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool?
45 If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?
46 And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.