Genesis 26
1 Now a famine happened in the land, besides the first famine that had been in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines at Gerar.
以前，在亞巴郎時代曾有過一次饑荒，現在地上又有了饑荒，依撒格便去了革辣爾，即培肋舍特人王阿彼默肋客那裏。
2 Now Yahweh appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land that I tell you to live in.
上主顯現給他說：「你不要下到埃及去，要住在我指示給你的地方。
3 Stay in this very land, and I will be with you and will bless you; for to you and to your descendants, I will give all these lands, and I will fulfill the oath that I swore to Abraham your father.
你要住在這地方，我必與你同在，祝福你，因為我要將這整個地方賜給你和你的後裔，實踐我向你父親亞巴郎所立的誓約；
4 I will multiply your descendants like the stars of heaven, and will give to your descendants all these lands. Through your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed.
且要使你的後裔繁多如天上的星辰，要將這一切地方賜給你的後裔，地上萬民要因你的後裔蒙受祝福，
5 I will do this because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my instructions, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”
因為亞巴郎聽從了我的話，遵守了我的訓示、誡命、規定和法律。」
6 So Isaac settled in Gerar.
依撒格就在革辣爾住下了。
7 When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister.” He feared to say, “She is my wife,” because he thought, “The men of this place will kill me to get Rebekah, because she is so beautiful.”
那地方的人問到他的妻子時，他就說：「這是我的妹妹。」他怕說：「這是我的妻子。」恐怕那地方的人為了黎貝加要殺害他，因為她面貌美麗。
8 After Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines happened to look out of a window. He saw, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.
他在那裏住了許久；有一天培肋舍特人王阿彼默肋客從窗戶向外眺望，看見依撒格正在愛撫他的妻子黎貝加。
9 Abimelech called Isaac to him and said, “Look, certainly she is your wife. Why did you say, 'She is my sister'?” Isaac said to him, “Because I thought someone might kill me to get her.”
阿彼默肋客遂召依撒格來說：「看，她明明是你的妻子，為什麼你說：她是我的妹妹﹖」依撒格回答說：「因為我怕我可能因她而被殺害。」
10 Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”
阿彼默肋客說：「你對我們作的是什麼事﹖差一點百姓中就有人與你妻子同睡，叫我們陷於罪惡。」
11 So Abimelech warned all the people and said, “Whoever touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”
於是阿彼默肋客號令全百姓說：「凡觸犯這人和他妻子的，必死無赦。」
12 Isaac planted crops in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold, because Yahweh blessed him.
依撒格在那地方耕種，當年就得了百倍的收成。上主實在祝福了他，
13 The man became rich, and grew more and more until he became very great.
他竟成了富翁，越來越富，終於成了個大富翁，
14 He had many sheep and cattle, and a large household. The Philistines envied him.
擁有羊群、牛群和許多奴僕，因此培肋舍特人都嫉妒他。
15 Now all the wells that his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines stopped them up by filling them with earth.
那時，凡他父親的僕人，在他父親亞巴郎生時所掘的井，培肋舍特人都用土填了。
16 Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.”
阿彼默肋客對依撒格說：「你在我們中太強盛了。你離開我們罷! 」
17 So Isaac departed from there and settled in the Valley of Gerar, and lived there.
依撒格遂離開了那裏，在革辣爾山谷中搭了帳幕，住在那裏。
18 Once again Isaac dug out the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father. The Philistines had stopped them up after Abraham's death. Isaac called the wells by the same names that his father had called them.
依撒格將他父親生時所掘的，亞巴郎死後培肋舍特人所填的一些水井，又從新掘好，仍照他父親起的名字稱呼這些水井。
19 When Isaac's servants dug in the valley, they found there a well of flowing water.
依撒格的僕人在山谷中掘井時，掘了一口活水井。
20 The herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen, and said, “This water is ours.” So Isaac called that well “Esek,” because they had quarreled with him.
革辣爾的牧童和依撒格的牧童遂發生了爭論，說：「這水是我們的。」為此他給那井起名叫「爭論，」因為他們曾與他爭論過。
21 Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that, too, so he gave it the name of “Sitnah.”
依撒格的僕人又另掘了一口井，為這口井又起了爭論，為此他給這井起名叫「仇恨。」
22 He left there and dug yet another well, but they did not quarrel over that one. So he called it Rehoboth, and he said, “Now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will prosper in the land.”
以後，他由那裏遷往別處，又掘了另一口井，為這口井再沒有起爭論，遂給這井起名叫「寬大，」說：「上主終於使我們寬綽，我們將在這地繁盛。」
23 Then Isaac went up from there to Beersheba.
依撒格由那裏上到了貝爾舍巴，
24 Yahweh appeared to him that same night and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Do not fear, for I am with you and will bless you and multiply your descendants, for my servant Abraham's sake.”
那天夜裏上主顯現給他說：「我是你父親亞巴郎的天主，你不要害怕，因為我與你同在，我必要為了我僕人亞巴郎的緣故祝福你，使你的後裔繁盛。」
25 Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of Yahweh. There he pitched his tent, and his servants dug a well.
依撒格就在那裏築了一座祭壇，呼求了上主的名；也在那裏搭了帳幕，他的僕人也在那裏掘了一口井。
26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath, his friend, and Phicol, the captain of his army.
阿彼默肋客和他的摯友阿胡匝特以及他的司令非苛耳，由革辣爾來到了依撒格那裏。
27 Isaac said to them, “Why are you coming to me, since you hate me and have sent me away from you?”
他遂對他們說：「你們既然仇恨我，將我由你們中間驅逐，為什麼又來到我這裏﹖」
28 Then they said, “We have clearly seen that Yahweh has been with you. So we decided that there should be an oath between us, yes, between us and you. So let us make a covenant with you,
他們回答說：「我們實在看出上主與你同在；因此我們想，更好我們雙方彼此宣誓，讓我們與你立約：
29 that you will do us no harm, just as we have not harmed you, and as we have treated you well and have sent you away in peace. Indeed, you are blessed by Yahweh.”
你決不加害我們，猶如我們從未觸犯你，只有好待了你，叫你平安離去；如今你實是上主祝福的人。」
30 So Isaac made a feast for them, and they ate and drank.
依撒格遂為他們設宴，大家一齊吃了喝了。
31 They rose early in the morning and swore an oath with each other. Then Isaac sent them away, and they left him in peace.
次日一早起來，彼此宣了誓。然後依撒格送他們出來，他們遂平安離去。
32 That same day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well that they had dug. They said, “We have found water.”
當天依撒格的僕人來，報告他們掘井的事說：「我們找著了水。」
33 He called the well Shibah, so the name of that city is Beersheba to this day.
依撒格就給這井起名叫「誓約；」為此，那城直到今日還稱作「誓約井。」
34 When Esau was forty years old, he took a wife, Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and also Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
厄撒烏到四十歲時，娶了赫特人貝厄黎的女兒友狄特和赫特人厄隆的女兒巴色瑪特為妻。
35 They brought sorrow to Isaac and Rebekah.
她們二人使依撒格和黎貝加傷心難受。
