Genesis 26
1 Karon adunay kagutom nga nahitabo sa yuta, gawas pa sa kagutom sa mga adlaw ni Abraham. Miadto si Isaac kang Abimelec, ang hari sa mga Felistihanon sa Gerar.
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 Karon si Yahweh mipakita kaniya ug miingon, “Ayaw paglugsong didto sa Ehipto; puyo sa dapit nga isulti ko kanimo nga puy-an.
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 Pabilin dinhi niining yutaa, kay magauban ako kanimo ug magapanalangin kanimo; kay alang kanimo ug sa imong mga kaliwat, ihatag ko kining tanang kayutaan, ug pagatumanon ko ang akong gisaad kang Abraham nga imong amahan.
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 Padaghanon ko ang imong kaliwatan sama sa mga kabituonan sa langit, ug ihatag ko kining tanang kayutaan sa imong mga kaliwatan. Pinaagi sa imong mga kaliwatan mapanalanginan ang tanang kanasoran.
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 Buhaton ko kini tungod kay nagmatinumanon man si Abraham sa akong tingog ug gitipigan ang akong mga gitudlo, ug ang akong mga kasugoan, ang akong mga pamatasan, ug ang akong mga balaod.”
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 Busa mipuyo si Isaac sa Gerar.
[so Isaac] stayed there [along with his wife and sons].
7 Sa dihang mangutana kaniya ang mga tawo didtong dapita mahitungod sa iyang asawa, moingon siya, “Ako siyang igsoon nga babaye.” Nahadlok siya sa pagsulti nga, “Ako siyang asawa,” tungod kay naghunahuna man siya, “Patyon ako sa mga tawo niining dapita aron kuhaon si Rebeca, tungod kay siya maanyag kaayo.”
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 Human makapuyo si Isaac didto sa pipila ka mga higayon, ug nahitabo nga milantaw sa iyang bintana si Abimelec, ang hari sa mga Felistihanon. Ania karon, nakita niya si Isaac naghagwa kang Rebeca nga iyang asawa.
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 Gipatawag ni Abimelec si Isaac ngadto kaniya ug miingon, “Tan-awa, sigurado gayod nga asawa mo siya. Nganong miingon ka man nga, “Ako siyang igsoon?” Miingon si Isaac kaniya, “Tungod kay naghunahuna ako nga basin adunay mopatay kanako aron makuha siya.”
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 Mitubag si Abimelec, “Unsa ba kining gibuhat mo kanamo? Sayon lang kaayo kang bisan kinsa ang modulog sa imong asawa, ug naghatag ka ug sala kanamo.
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 Busa gipahimangnoan ni Abimelec ang tanang mga tawo ug giingnan, “Si bisan kinsa ang motandog niining tawhana o sa iyang asawa pagapatyon.”
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 Nagtanom si Isaac niadtong yutaa ug miani sa gatosan ka pilo sa samang tuiga, tungod kay gipanalanginan man siya ni Yahweh.
Isaac planted grain in that land that year, and he harvested a very large crop, because Yahweh blessed him.
13 Ang tawo naadunahan, ug nagmalambuon gayod hangtod nga nahimo siyang bantogan.
Isaac continued to acquire more and more possessions, until finally he became very wealthy.
14 Nakabaton siya ug daghang mga karnero ug mga baka, ug dakong panimalay. Ug nangasina kaniya ang mga Felistihanon.
He had large herds of sheep and goats and cattle, and many slaves. Because of that, the Philistine people envied him.
15 Karon ang tanang mga atabay nga gipangkalot sa mga sulugoon sa iyang amahan sa mga adlaw ni Abraham nga iyang amahan, gipanabonan sa mga Felistihanon pinaagi sa pagpuno niini ug yuta.
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 Miingon si Abimelec kang Isaac, “Pahilayo na kanamo kay mas kusgan ka na kay kanamo.
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 Busa mibiya si Isaac didto ug nagbalong-balong sa walog sa Gerar, ug mipuyo didto.
So Isaac [and his family] moved from there. They set up their tents in Gerar Valley [and started to live there].
18 Sa makausa pa gikalot ni Isaac pag-usab ang atabay nga may tubig, nga gipangkalot na nila sa mga adlaw ni Abraham nga iyang amahan. Gipangtabonan kini sa mga Felistihanon human sa kamatayon ni Abraham. Ginganlan ni Isaac ang mga atabay sa samang ngalan nga gipangalan sa iyang amahan kanila.
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 Sa pagkalot sa mga sulugoon ni Isaac didto sa walog, nakakaplag sila didto ug usa ka atabay nga may nagtubod nga tubig.
Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of fresh water.
20 Nag-away ang mga magbalantay sa Gerar batok sa mga magbalantay ni Isaac, ug miingon, “Amoa kining tubiga.” Busa gitawag ni Isaac ang atabay ug “Esek,” tungod kay nakig-away man sila kaniya.
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 Unya nagkalot na usab sila ug lain nga atabay, ug nag-away na usab sila niadto, busa gitawag niya kini ug “Sitna.”
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 Mibiya siya didto ug mikalot ug lain na usab nga atabay, apan wala na sila nag-away niini. Busa gitawag niya kini nga Rehobot, ug miingon siya, “Karon si Yahweh naghatag ug dapit alang kanato, ug magmalambuon kita sa yuta.
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 Unya mitungas si Isaac gikan didto padulong sa Beersheba.
From there Isaac went up to Beersheba.
24 Mipakita kaniya si Yahweh nianang gabhiona ug miingon, “Ako ang Dios ni Abraham nga imong amahan. Ayaw kahadlok, kay ako magauban kanimo ug magpanalangin kanimo ug padaghanon ko ang imong kaliwatan, tungod ug alang sa akong sulugoon nga si Abraham.”
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 Nagbuhat si Isaac ug halaran didto ug misangpit sa ngalan ni Yahweh. Gitukod niya didto ang iyang tolda, ug ang iyang mga sulugoon nagkalot ug usa ka atabay.
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 Unya si Abimelec miadto kaniya gikan sa Gerar, uban ni Ahuzat, nga iyang higala, ug si Phicol, ang kapitan sa iyang kasundalohan.
[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 Si Isaac miingon kanila, “Nganong mianhi man kamo kanako, sanglit gikasilagan na man ninyo ako ug gipapahawa gikan kaninyo?”
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 Ug mitubag sila, “Nakita namo sa dayag nga si Yahweh nag-uban kanimo. Busa nakahukom kami nga kinahanglang aduna kitay panumpa tali kanato, oo, tali kanamo ug kanimo. Busa tugoti kaming makigsaad kanimo,
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 nga dili mo kami hilabtan, sama ra nga wala ka namo hilabti, ingon nga gitagad namo kamo pag-ayo ug gipalakaw nga malinawon. Kay tinuod gayod, gipanalanginan ka ni Yahweh.”
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 Busa nagpakombira si Isaac alang kanila, nangaon sila ug nanginom.
So Isaac made a feast for them, and they all ate and drank.
31 Mibangon sila sayo sa kabuntagon ug nanumpa sa usag-usa. Unya gipalakaw sila ni Isaac, ug mibiya silang malinawon.
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 Niadtong adlawa miabot ang mga sulugoon ni Isaac, ug gisuginlan nila siya mahitungod sa atabay nga ilang gikalot. Miingon sila, “Nakakaplag na kami ug tubig.”
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 Gitawag niya ang atabay ug Shiba, busa ang ngalan sa maong siyudad Beersheba hangtod karong mga panahona.
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 Sa nagpanuigon na si Esau ug 40, gipangasawa niya si Judith ang anak ni Beeri nga Hitihanon, ug si Basemath ang anak ni Elon nga Hitihanon.
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 Nakapaguol sila ngadto kang Isaac ug kang Rebeca.
Esau’s two wives made life miserable for Isaac and Rebekah.
