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1 Soge huluane da ha: i bagade eno ba: i. Musa: , A: ibalaha: me ea esoga ha: i bagade ba: i, be amo da eno. Aisage da Abimelege amo Filisidini hina bagade Gila moilai bai bagade ganodini esalu, ema asi.
Some time later there was a severe (famine/scarcity of food) there. That was different from the famine that occurred when Abraham was alive. So Isaac went [southeast] to Gerar [town, to talk] to Abimelech, the king of the Philistine people-group. [What happened was this: Isaac considered going to Egypt],
2 Hina Gode da Aisagema misini, amane sia: i, “Idibidi amoga mae masa. Be na olelemu soge amo ganodini esaloma.
but Yahweh appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt! Live in the land where I will tell you to go!
3 Amo soge ganodini fonobahadi ouesaloma. Amalalu, Na amola gilisili esalumu amola dima hahawane dogolegele fidimu. Bai Na da amo soge huluane Na da dima amola dia fa: no lalelegemu fi ilima imunu. Na da gousa: su dia ada A: ibalaha: mema hamoi, amo Na da didili hamomu.
Stay in this land for a while, and I will help you and bless you, because it is to you and your descendants that I will give all these lands, and I will do what I solemnly promised to your father.
4 Na da digaga fi dunu amo gasumuni ilia idi defele hamomu. Amo soge huluane ilima imunu. Amola ilia houba: le, osobo bagade fifi asi gala huluane da hahawane dogolegele hou ba: mu.
I will cause your descendants to be as numerous as the stars in the sky. I will give to your descendants all these lands, and I will cause your descendants to be a blessing to the people of [MTY] all nations on the earth.
5 Bai A: ibalaha: me da Na sia: nabasu. E da Na hanai amola Na Sema amola Na hamoma: ne sia: i huluane mae fili, nabasu hou hamosu.
I will do that because your father Abraham obeyed me. He obeyed everything that I told him to do, everything that I declared and all the laws that I gave him.” So Isaac [went and asked King Abimelech if he would permit him to live in the Gerar area. The king said, “Okay,”]
6 Amaiba: le, Aisage da Gila moilai bai bagade ganodini esalu.
[so Isaac] stayed there [along with his wife and sons].
7 Amo soge dunu da ea uda ea hou ema adole ba: loba, e da amane sia: i, “E da na dalusi.” E da, “Amo da na uda” sia: musa: bagade beda: i galu. Bai e agoane dawa: i, “Amo soge dunu da Lebega da na uda dawa: sea, na fane legemu. Bai e da noga: iwane ba: sa.”
When the men in Gerar [town] asked who Rebekah was, Isaac said, “She is my sister.” He said that because he was afraid to say, “She is my wife.” He thought, “Rebekah is very beautiful, so they will want her. [If I say that she is my sister, they know they will have to negotiate about a bride price because I am her older brother; but if I say that she is my wife, no negotiation will be possible]. They will just kill me to get her.”
8 Aisage amogai eso bagohame esaloba, Filisidini hina bagade dunu Abimelege, da ea fo misa: ne agenesi amoga gududili ba: loba, Aisage ea uda Lebega amo nonogonanebe ba: i.
When Isaac had been there a long time, one day Abimelech, the king of the Philistine people-group, looked down from a window [in his palace] and was surprised to see Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.
9 Amaiba: le, Abimelege da Aisagema misa: ne sia: i. E da amane sia: i, “Amo da dia uda. Di da abuli, ‘amo da na dalusi’ sia: bela: ?” Aisage da ema bu adole i, “Na da enoga medosa: besa: le, agoane hamoi.”
So Abimelech summoned Isaac and said to him, “Now I realize that she is really your wife! So why did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac replied to him, “I said that because I thought that someone here might kill me to get her.”
10 Amalalu, Abimelege da amane sia: i, “Di da ninima adi hamobela: ? Ninia fi dunu afae da ema gilisili golai ganiaba, ninia huluane da wadela: i dunu fi ba: la: loba.”
Abimelech said, “(You should not have done this to us!/Why did you do this?) [RHQ] One of our people might have (had sex with/slept with) [EUP] your wife, and you would have caused us to be guilty of a great sin!”
11 Amaiba: le, Abimelege da ea fi dunu ilima amane sia: i, “Nowa da amo dunu o ea uda wadela: sea, amo dunu ninia fane legemu.”
Then Abimelech commanded all his people, saying, “Do not harm/molest this man or his wife! Anyone who does that will surely be executed!”
12 Aisage da amo soge ganodini, ha: i manu bugi. Hina Gode da hahawane dogolegelewane fidibiba: le, amo bugi da ha: i manu bagade legei.
Isaac planted grain in that land that year, and he harvested a very large crop, because Yahweh blessed him.
13 E da bagade gagui dunu agoane ba: i. Ea gagui da asigilabeba: le, ea gagui da bagadedafa ba: i.
Isaac continued to acquire more and more possessions, until finally he became very wealthy.
14 E sibi, goudi amola bulamagau bagohame gaguiba: le, Filisidini dunu da e mudale ba: i.
He had large herds of sheep and goats and cattle, and many slaves. Because of that, the Philistine people envied him.
15 Amaiba: le, Filisidini dunu da hano uli dogoi huluane amo ea ada hawa: hamosu dunu da A: ibalaha: me ea esoga dogoi, amo huluane ga: si. Ilia huluane osoboga nabasu.
So all the wells that the servants of his father Abraham had dug during the time when he was alive, the people filled up with dirt.
16 Amalalu, Abimelege da Aisagema amane sia: i, “Di nini yolesili masa! Bai di da gasa bagade hamoi dagoi.”
Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “You people have become more numerous than we are, so I want you to get out of our area.”
17 Amaiba: le, Aisage da amo soge yolesili, Gila Fago amoga esalu.
So Isaac [and his family] moved from there. They set up their tents in Gerar Valley [and started to live there].
18 Amoga hano uli dogoi amo A: ibalaha: me ea esoga dogoi be Filisidini dunu da ga: i, amo Aisage bu doasi. Amola dio A: ibalaha: me da amo uli dogoi amoma asuli, amo dio Aisage bu asuli.
There were several wells in that area that had been dug when Isaac’s father Abraham was living, but Philistine people had filled them up [with dirt] after Abraham died. Now Isaac and his servants removed the dirt, and Isaac gave the wells the same names that his father had given to them.
19 Aisage da umi amo ganodini dogolalu, noga: iwane hano ba: i.
Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of fresh water.
20 Be Gila sibi ouligisu dunu da Aisage ea sibi ouligisu dunu ilima sia: ga gegei. Ilia amane sia: i, “Amo hano da ninia:” Amaiba: le, e da amo hanoma “Sia: ga Gegesu” dio asuli.
But other men who lived in Gerar [Valley] who took care of their animals argued/quarreled with the men who took care of Isaac’s animals, and said, “The water in this well is ours!” So Isaac named the well Esek, which means ‘dispute’, because they disputed about who owned it.
21 Amalalu ilia da hano uli dou eno dogoi. Be ilia amoga eno sia: ga gegei. Amaiba: le, e da amo hanoma Sidina (Ha Lai) dio asuli.
Then Isaac’s servants dug another well, but they quarreled about who owned that one also. So Isaac named it Sitnah, [which means ‘opposition]’.
22 Bu asili, e da hano uli eno dogoi. Amoga ilia da hame sia: ga gegei. Amaiba: le, e da amo hano uli dogoima Lihoubode (Hahawane Halegale Lala) dio asuli. E amane sia: i, “Wali Hina Gode da sogebi defele ninima ia dagoiba: le, ninia da hahawane soge ganodini udigili lala.”
They moved on from there and dug another well, but this time no one quarreled about who owned it. So Isaac named it Rehoboth, [which means ‘uninhabited place’], saying, “Yahweh has given us an uninhabited place to live in, a place that is not wanted by other people, and we will become very prosperous here.”
23 Amoga asili, e da Biasiba amoga asi.
From there Isaac went up to Beersheba.
24 Amo gasia, Hina Gode da ema misini amane sia: i, “Na da dia ada A: ibalaha: me amo ea Gode esala. Mae beda: ma! Na da di amola gilisili lala. Na da Na hawa: hamosu dunu A: ibalaha: mema hahawane sia: beba: le, Na dima hahawane dogolegele hamomu amola digaga lalelegemu fi amo bagade hamomu.”
The first night that he was there, Yahweh appeared to him and said, “I am God, whom your father Abraham worshiped. Do not be afraid of anything. I will help you and bless you, and because of what I promised my servant Abraham, I will greatly increase the number of your descendants.”
25 Aisage da amo sogega oloda hamone, Hina Godema nodone sia: ne gadoi. E amoga abula diasu gagui, amola ea hawa: hamosu dunu da hano uli dogoi.
So Isaac built a stone altar there [and offered a sacrifice] to worship Yahweh. He [and his servants] set up their tents there, and his servants started to dig a well.
26 Abimelege, ea fidisu dunu Ahusa: de amola ea dadi gagui dunu hina amo Fa: igole da Gila moilai bai bagade yolesili, Aisagema doaga: i.
[While they were digging the well], King Abimelech came to Isaac from Gerar, along with Ahuzzath, his advisor, and Phicol, the commander of his army.
27 Amalalu, Aisage ema amane adole ba: i, “Di da musa: nama ha laiba: le, dia soge fisili masa: ne nama sia: i dagoi. Amaiba: le, di abuliba: le nama waha misi?”
Isaac asked them, “You (acted in a hostile way toward me/treated me like an enemy) before, and sent me away. So why have you come to me now?”
28 Ilia bu adole i, “Wali ninia dawa: ! Hina Gode da dia fidisu esala. Ninia wali gousa: sudafa hamomu da defea.
One of them answered, “We have seen that Yahweh helps you. So we said to each other, ‘We should have an agreement between us and you. We should make a peace treaty with you,
29 Di ninima se maedafa ima: ne sia: ma. Ninia da dima se hame i, amo defele di da nini fidimu da defea. Ninia da dima asigi hou hamonanu, dia ga masa: ne logo doasi dagoi. Amola wali Hina Gode da dima hahawane dogolegele ilegei dagoi.”
stating that you will not harm us, in the same way that we did not molest [EUP] you.’ We always treated you well and sent you away peacefully. And now Yahweh is blessing you.”
30 Aisage da ili moma: ne, lolo nasu hamoi. Ilia huluane ha: i amola waini hano mai dagoi.
So Isaac made a feast for them, and they all ate and drank.
31 Aya hahabedafa, Aisage amola Filisidini dunu da gousa: su hamoi. Aisage da ilima “asigibio” sia: nanu, ilia olofole agoane afafai.
Early the next morning they all (swore/solemnly promised) each other that they would do what they had promised. Then Isaac sent them home peacefully.
32 Amo esoga, Aisage ea hawa: hamosu dunu da ema misini, ilia da hano uli dogoi amo olelei. Ilia da amane sia: i, “Ninia hano ba: i dagoi.”
That day Isaac’s servants came to him and told him about the well that they had finished digging. They said, “We found water in the well!”
33 E da amo hano Siba (“hou ilegele sia:” o eno dawaloma: ne da “fesuale hano”). Biasiba da amoga ea dio lai dagoi.
Isaac named the well Shibah, [which sounds like the Hebrew word that means ‘oath’]. To the present time the town there has the name Beersheba [which means ‘Friendship Agreement Well’].
34 Iso da ode 40 lai dagoi. Amalalu, e da Hidaide a: fini aduna lai dagoi. Afae ea dio da Yudide amo Bieli ea mano. Eno da Basemade amo Ilone ea mano.
When Esau was 40 years old, he married Judith, the daughter of Beeri, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon. Both of those women were descendants of Heth, [not from Isaac’s clan].
35 Aisage amola Lebega da amo hou ba: beba: le, se bagade nabasu.
Esau’s two wives made life miserable for Isaac and Rebekah.
