讲章 
圣经 1 And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming, and four hundred men with him.
4 But Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.
12 Then Esau said, “Let us journey on our way, and I will go ahead of you.”
13 But Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are frail, and that the nursing flocks and herds are a care to me. If they are driven hard for one day, all the flocks will die.
14 Let my lord pass on ahead of his servant, and I will lead on slowly, at the pace of the livestock that are ahead of me and at the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in Seir.”
15 So Esau said, “Let me leave with you some of the people who are with me.” But he said, “What need is there? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”
16 So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.
17 But Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built himself a house and made booths for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
18 And Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, on his way from Paddan-aram, and he camped before the city.
19 And from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, he bought for a hundred pieces of money the piece of land on which he had pitched his tent.
20 There he erected an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.
Compromise (Gen 34)
1 Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the women of the land.
2 And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he seized her and lay with her and humiliated her.
5 Now Jacob heard that he had defiled his daughter Dinah. But his sons were with his livestock in the field, so Jacob held his peace until they came.
6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to speak with him.
7 The sons of Jacob had come in from the field as soon as they heard of it, and the men were indignant and very angry, because he had done an outrageous thing in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter, for such a thing must not be done.
8 But Hamor spoke with them, saying, “The soul of my son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him to be his wife.
13 The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully, because he had defiled their sister Dinah.
Sermon Notes
14 They said to them, “We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a disgrace to us.
15 Only on this condition will we agree with you—that you will become as we are by every male among you being circumcised.”
20 So Hamor and his son Shechem came to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city…
24 And all who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.
25 On the third day, when they were sore, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, took their swords and came against the city while it felt secure and killed all the males.
30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me stink to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites. My numbers are few, and if they gather themselves against me and attack me, I shall be destroyed, both I and my household.”
31 But they said, “Should he treat our sister like a prostitute?”
Consecration (Gen 35)
1 God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”
5 And as they journeyed, a terror from God fell upon the cities that were around them, so that they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
6 And Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him,
7 and there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.
9 God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him.
10 And God said to him, “Your name is Jacob; no longer shall your name be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name.” So he called his name Israel.
27 And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.
28 Now the days of Isaac were 180 years.
29 And Isaac breathed his last, and he died and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
1 : 1 起初， 神创造天地。
1 : 2 地是空虚混沌，深渊上面一片黑暗； 神的灵 运行在水面上。
1 : 3 神说：「要有光」，就有了光。
1 : 4 神看光是好的，于是 神就把光和暗分开。
1 : 5 神称光为「昼」，称暗为「夜」。有晚上，有早晨，这是第一日。
1 : 6 神说：「众水之间要有穹苍，把水和水分开。」
1 : 7 神就造了穹苍，把穹苍以下的水和穹苍以上的水分开。事就这样成了。
1 : 8 神称穹苍为「天」。有晚上，有早晨，这是第二日。
1 : 9 神说：「天下面的水要聚集在一处，使干地露出来。」事就这样成了。
1 : 10 神称干地为「地」，称聚集在一起的水为「海」。 神看为好的。
1 : 11 神说：「地要长出植物，就是含种子的五谷菜蔬，和会结果子、果子裏有种子的树，在地上各从其类。」事就这样成了。
1 : 12 于是地长出了植物：含种子的五谷菜蔬，各从其类；会结果子、果子裏有种子的树，各从其类。 神看为好的。
1 : 13 有晚上，有早晨，这是第三日。
1 : 14 神说：「天上要有光体来分昼夜，让它们作记号，定季节、日子、年份，
1 : 15 它们要在天空发光，照在地上。」事就这样成了。
1 : 16 于是 神造了两个大光体，大的管昼，小的管夜，又造了星辰。
1 : 17 神把这些光体摆列在天空，照在地上，
1 : 18 管理昼夜，分别光暗。 神看为好的。
1 : 19 有晚上，有早晨，这是第四日。
1 : 20 神说：「水要滋生众多有生命之物；要有鸟飞在地面以上，天空之中。」
1 : 21 神就创造了大鱼和在水裏滋生的各样活动的生物，各从其类，以及各样有翅膀的鸟，各从其类。 神看为好的。
1 : 22 神就赐福给这一切，说：「要繁殖增多，充满在海的水裏；飞鸟也要在地上增多。」
1 : 23 有晚上，有早晨，这是第五日。
1 : 24 神说：「地要生出有生命之物，各从其类，就是牲畜、爬行动物、地上的走兽，各从其类。」事就这样成了。
1 : 25 于是 神造了地上的走兽，各从其类；牲畜，各从其类；和地上一切的爬行动物，各从其类。 神看为好的。
1 : 26 神说：「我们要照着我们的形像，按着我们的样式造人，使他们管理海裏的鱼、天空的鸟、地上的牲畜和全地，以及地上爬的一切爬行动物。」
1 : 27 神就照着他的形像创造人，照着 神的形像创造他们；他创造了他们，有男有女。
1 : 28 神赐福给他们， 神对他们说：「要生养众多，遍满这地，治理它；要管理海裏的鱼、天空的鸟和地上各样活动的生物。」
1 : 29 神说：「看哪，我把全地一切含种子的五谷菜蔬和一切会结果子、果子裏有种子的树，都赐给你们；这些都可作食物。
1 : 30 至于地上一切的走兽、天空一切的飞鸟，并一切在地上爬行的，有生命的动物，我把绿色植物赐给牠们作食物。」事就这样成了。
1 : 31 神看一切所造的，看哪，都非常好。有晚上，有早晨，这是第六日。