Genesis 26

1 and to be famine in/on/with land: country/planet from to/for alone: besides [the] famine [the] first: previous which to be in/on/with day Abraham and to go: went Isaac to(wards) Abimelech king Philistine Gerar [to]

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 and to see: see to(wards) him LORD and to say not to go down Egypt [to] to dwell in/on/with land: country/planet which to say to(wards) you

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 to sojourn in/on/with land: country/planet [the] this and to be with you and to bless you for to/for you and to/for seed: children your to give: give [obj] all [the] land: country/planet [the] these and to arise: establish [obj] [the] oath which to swear to/for Abraham father your

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 and to multiply [obj] seed: children your like/as star [the] heaven and to give: give to/for seed: children your [obj] all [the] land: country/planet [the] these and to bless in/on/with seed: children your all nation [the] land: country/planet

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 consequence which to hear: obey Abraham in/on/with voice my and to keep: obey charge my commandment my statute my and instruction my

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 and to dwell Isaac in/on/with Gerar

[so Isaac] stayed there [along with his wife and sons].

7 and to ask human [the] place to/for woman: wife his and to say sister my he/she/it for to fear to/for to say woman: wife my lest to kill me human [the] place upon Rebekah for pleasant appearance he/she/it

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 and to be for to prolong to/for him there [the] day and to look Abimelech king Philistine about/through/for [the] window and to see: see and behold Isaac to laugh with Rebekah woman: wife his

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 and to call: call to Abimelech to/for Isaac and to say surely behold woman: wife your he/she/it and how? to say sister my he/she/it and to say to(wards) him Isaac for to say lest to die upon her

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 and to say Abimelech what? this to make: do to/for us like/as little to lie down: have sex one [the] people [obj] woman: wife your and to come (in): bring upon us guilt (offering)

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 and to command Abimelech [obj] all [the] people to/for to say [the] to touch in/on/with man [the] this and in/on/with woman: wife his to die to die

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 and to sow Isaac in/on/with land: country/planet [the] he/she/it and to find in/on/with year [the] he/she/it hundred hundredfold and to bless him LORD

Isaac planted grain in that land that year, and he harvested a very large crop, because Yahweh blessed him.

13 and to magnify [the] man and to go: continue to go: continue and growing till for to magnify much

Isaac continued to acquire more and more possessions, until finally he became very wealthy.

14 and to be to/for him livestock flock and livestock cattle and service many and be jealous [obj] him Philistine

He had large herds of sheep and goats and cattle, and many slaves. Because of that, the Philistine people envied him.

15 and all [the] well which to search servant/slave father his in/on/with day Abraham father his to close them Philistine and to fill them dust

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 and to say Abimelech to(wards) Isaac to go: went from from with us for be vast from us much

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 and to go: went from there Isaac and to camp in/on/with torrent: valley Gerar and to dwell there

So Isaac [and his family] moved from there. They set up their tents in Gerar Valley [and started to live there].

18 and to return: again Isaac and to search [obj] well [the] water which to search in/on/with day Abraham father his and to close them Philistine after death Abraham and to call: call by to/for them name like/as name which to call: call by to/for them father his

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 and to search servant/slave Isaac in/on/with torrent: valley and to find there well water alive

Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of fresh water.

20 and to contend to pasture Gerar with to pasture Isaac to/for to say to/for us [the] water and to call: call by name [the] well Esek for to contend with him

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 and to search well another and to contend also upon her and to call: call by name her Sitnah

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 and to proceed from there and to search well another and not to contend upon her and to call: call by name her Rehoboth and to say for now to enlarge LORD to/for us and be fruitful in/on/with land: country/planet

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 and to ascend: rise from there Beersheba Beersheba

From there Isaac went up to Beersheba.

24 and to see: see to(wards) him LORD in/on/with night [the] he/she/it and to say I God Abraham father your not to fear for with you I and to bless you and to multiply [obj] seed: children your in/on/with for the sake of Abraham servant/slave my

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 and to build there altar and to call: call to in/on/with name LORD and to stretch there tent his and to pierce there servant/slave Isaac well

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 and Abimelech to go: went to(wards) him from Gerar and Ahuzzath companion his and Phicol ruler army his

[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 and to say to(wards) them Isaac why? to come (in): come to(wards) me and you(m. p.) to hate [obj] me and to send: depart me from with you

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 and to say to see: see to see: see for to be LORD with you and to say to be please oath between us between us and between you and to cut: make(covenant) covenant with you

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 if: surely yes to make: do with us distress: harm like/as as which not to touch you and like/as as which to make: do with you except good and to send: depart you in/on/with peace you(m. s.) now to bless LORD

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 and to make to/for them feast and to eat and to drink

So Isaac made a feast for them, and they all ate and drank.

31 and to rise in/on/with morning and to swear man: anyone to/for brother: male-sibling his and to send: depart them Isaac and to go: went from with him in/on/with peace

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 and to be in/on/with day [the] he/she/it and to come (in): come servant/slave Isaac and to tell to/for him upon because [the] well which to search and to say to/for him to find water

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 and to call: call by [obj] her Shibah upon so name [the] city Beersheba Beersheba till [the] day: today [the] this

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 and to be Esau son: aged forty year and to take: marry woman: wife [obj] Judith daughter Beeri [the] Hittite and [obj] Basemath daughter Elon [the] Hittite

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 and to be bitterness spirit to/for Isaac and to/for Rebekah

Esau’s two wives made life miserable for Isaac and Rebekah.