"야곱은 홀로 남았더니" 창세기 32:1-32 (강해 31) [심히 두렵고 답답하여...내게 축복하지 아니하면 가게 하지 아니하겠나이다] 2020년 5월 3일 주일 설교

1. Jacob also went on his way, and the angels of God met him. 2. When Jacob saw them, he said, "This is the camp of God!" So he named that place Mahanaim. 3. Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom. 4. He instructed them: "This is what you are to say to my master Esau: 'Your servant Jacob says, I have been staying with Laban and have remained there till now. 5. I have cattle and donkeys, sheep and goats, menservants and maidservants. Now I am sending this message to my lord, that I may find favor in your eyes.' " 6. When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, "We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him." 7. In great fear and distress Jacob divided the people who were with him into two groups, and the flocks and herds and camels as well. 8. He thought, "If Esau comes and attacks one group, the group that is left may escape." 9. Then Jacob prayed, "O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, O LORD, who said to me, 'Go back to your country and your relatives, and I will make you prosper,' 10. I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown your servant. I had only my staff when I crossed this Jordan, but now I have become two groups. 11. Save me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, and also the mothers with their children. 12. But you have said, 'I will surely make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted.' " 13. He spent the night there, and from what he had with him he selected a gift for his brother Esau: 14. two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, 15. thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys. 16. He put them in the care of his servants, each herd by itself, and said to his servants, "Go ahead of me, and keep some space between the herds." 17. He instructed the one in the lead: "When my brother Esau meets you and asks, 'To whom do you belong, and where are you going, and who owns all these animals in front of you?' 18. then you are to say, 'They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift sent to my lord Esau, and he is coming behind us.' " 19. He also instructed the second, the third and all the others who followed the herds: "You are to say the same thing to Esau when you meet him. 20. And be sure to say, 'Your servant Jacob is coming behind us.' " For he thought, "I will pacify him with these gifts I am sending on ahead; later, when I see him, perhaps he will receive me." 21. So Jacob's gifts went on ahead of him, but he himself spent the night in the camp. 22. That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 23. After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions. 24. So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. 25. When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. 26. Then the man said, "Let me go, for it is daybreak." But Jacob replied, "I will not let you go unless you bless me." 27. The man asked him, "What is your name?" "Jacob," he answered. 28. Then the man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men and have overcome." 29. Jacob said, "Please tell me your name." But he replied, "Why do you ask my name?" Then he blessed him there. 30. So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, "It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared." 31. The sun rose above him as he passed Peniel, and he was limping because of his hip. 32. Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon attached to the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob's hip was touched near the tendon. [새번역] 1. 야곱이 길을 떠나서 가는데, 하나님의 천사들이 야곱 앞에 나타났다. 2. 야곱이 그들을 알아보고 "이 곳은 하나님의 진이구나!" 하면서, 그 곳 이름을 마하나임이라고 하였다. 3. 야곱이 에돔 벌 세일 땅에 사는 형 에서에게, 자기보다 먼저 심부름꾼들을 보내면서 4. 지시하였다. "너희는 나의 형님 에서에게 가서, 이렇게 전하여라. '주인의 종 야곱이 이렇게 아룁니다. 저는 그 동안 라반에게 몸붙여 살며, 최근까지도 거기에 머물러 있었습니다. 5. 저에게는 소와 나귀, 양 떼와 염소 떼, 남종과 여종이 있습니다. 형님께 이렇게 소식을 전하여 드립니다. 형님께서 저를 너그럽게 보아 주십시오.'" 6. 심부름꾼들이 에서에게 갔다가, 야곱에게 돌아와서 말하였다. "주인 어른의 형님인 에서 어른께 다녀왔습니다. 그분은 지금 부하 사백 명을 거느리고, 주인 어른을 치려고 이리로 오고 있습니다." 7. 야곱은 너무나 두렵고 걱정이 되어서, 자기 일행과 양 떼와 소 떼와 낙타 떼를 두 패로 나누었다. 8. 에서가 와서 한 패를 치면, 나머지 한 패라도 피하게 해야겠다는 속셈이었다. 9. 야곱은 기도를 드렸다. "할아버지 아브라함을 보살펴 주신 하나님, 아버지 이삭을 보살펴 주신 하나님, 고향 친족에게로 돌아가면 은혜를 베푸시겠다고 저에게 약속하신 주님, 10. 주님께서 주님의 종에게 베푸신 이 모든 은총과 온갖 진실을, 이 종은 감히 받을 자격이 없습니다. 제가 이 요단 강을 건널 때에, 가진 것이라고는 지팡이 하나뿐이었습니다만, 이제 저는 이처럼 두 무리나 이루었습니다. 11. 부디, 제 형의 손에서, 에서의 손에서, 저를 건져 주십시오. 형이 와서 저를 치고, 아내들과 자식들까지 죽일까 두렵습니다. 12. 주님께서 말씀하시기를 '내가 반드시 너에게 은혜를 베풀어서, 너의 씨가 바다의 모래처럼 셀 수도 없이 많아지게 하겠다' 하시지 않으셨습니까?" 13. 그 날 밤에 야곱은 거기에서 묵었다. 야곱은 자기가 가진 것 가운데서, 자기의 형 에서에게 줄 선물을 따로