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.
Orta autem fame super terram post eam sterilitatem, quae acciderat in diebus Abraham, abiit Isaac ad Abimelech regem Palaestinorum in Gerara.
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.
Apparuitque ei Dominus, et ait: Ne descendas in Aegyptum, sed quiesce in terra, quam dixero tibi.
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.
Et peregrinare in ea, eroque tecum, et benedicam tibi: tibi enim et semini tuo dabo universas regiones has, complens iuramentum quod spopondi Abraham patri tuo.
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.
Et multiplicabo semen tuum sicut stellas caeli: daboque posteris tuis universas regiones has: et BENEDICENTUR in semine tuo omnes gentes terrae,
5 I will do this because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my instructions, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”
eo quod obedierit Abraham voci meae, et custodierit praecepta et mandata mea, et ceremonias legesque servaverit.
6 So Isaac settled in Gerar.
Mansit itaque Isaac in Geraris.
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.”
Qui cum interrogaretur a viris loci illius super uxore sua, respondit: Soror mea est. timuerat enim confiteri quod sibi esset sociata coniugio, reputans ne forte interficerent eum propter illius pulchritudinem.
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.
Cumque pertransissent dies plurimi, et ibidem moraretur, prospiciens Abimelech rex Palaestinorum per fenestram, vidit eum iocantem cum Rebecca uxore sua.
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.”
Et accersito eo, ait: Perspicuum est quod uxor tua sit: cur mentitus es eam sororem tuam esse? Respondit: Timui ne morerer propter eam.
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.”
Dixitque Abimelech: Quare imposuisti nobis? potuit coire quispiam de populo cum uxore tua, et induxeras super nos grande peccatum. Praecepitque omni populo, dicens:
11 So Abimelech warned all the people and said, “Whoever touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”
Qui tetigerit hominis huius uxorem, morte morietur.
12 Isaac planted crops in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold, because Yahweh blessed him.
Sevit autem Isaac in terra illa, et invenit in ipso anno centuplum: benedixitque ei Dominus.
13 The man became rich, and grew more and more until he became very great.
Et locupletatus est homo, et ibat proficiens atque succrescens, donec magnus vehementer effectus est:
14 He had many sheep and cattle, and a large household. The Philistines envied him.
habuitque possessiones ovium et armentorum, et familiae plurimum. Ob hoc invidentes ei Palaestini,
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.
omnes puteos, quos foderant servi patris illius Abraham, illo tempore obstruxerunt, implentes humo:
16 Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.”
in tantum, ut ipse Abimelech diceret ad Isaac: Recede a nobis, quoniam potentior nobis factus es valde.
17 So Isaac departed from there and settled in the Valley of Gerar, and lived there.
Et ille discedens, ut veniret ad torrentem Gerarae, habitaretque ibi:
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.
rursum fodit alios puteos, quos foderant servi patris sui Abraham, et quos, illo mortuo, olim obstruxerant Philisthiim: appellavitque eos eisdem nominibus quibus ante pater vocaverat.
19 When Isaac's servants dug in the valley, they found there a well of flowing water.
Foderuntque in Torrente, et repererunt aquam vivam.
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.
Sed et ibi iurgium fuit pastorum Gerarae adversus pastores Isaac, dicentium: Nostra est aqua. quam ob rem nomen putei ex eo, quod acciderat, vocavit Calumniam.
21 Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that, too, so he gave it the name of “Sitnah.”
Foderunt autem et alium: et pro illo quoque rixati sunt, appellavitque eum, Inimicitias.
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.”
Profectus inde fodit alium puteum, pro quo non contenderunt: itaque vocavit nomen eius, Latitudo, dicens: Nunc dilatavit nos Dominus, et fecit crescere super terram.
23 Then Isaac went up from there to Beersheba.
Ascendit autem ex illo loco in Bersabee,
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.”
ubi apparuit ei Dominus in ipsa nocte, dicens: Ego sum Deus Abraham patris tui, noli timere, quia ego tecum sum: benedicam tibi, et multiplicabo semen tuum propter servum meum Abraham.
25 Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of Yahweh. There he pitched his tent, and his servants dug a well.
Itaque aedificavit ibi altare: et invocato nomine Domini, extendit tabernaculum: praecepitque servis suis ut foderent puteum.
26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath, his friend, and Phicol, the captain of his army.
Ad quem locum cum venissent de Geraris Abimelech, et Ochozath amicus illius, et Phicol dux militum,
27 Isaac said to them, “Why are you coming to me, since you hate me and have sent me away from you?”
locutus est eis Isaac: Quid venistis ad me hominem quem odistis, et expulistis a vobis?
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,
Qui responderunt: Vidimus tecum esse Dominum, et idcirco nos diximus: Sit iuramentum inter nos, et ineamus foedus,
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.”
ut non facias nobis quidquam mali, sicut et nos nihil tuorum attigimus, nec fecimus quod te laederet: sed cum pace dimisimus auctum benedictione Domini.
30 So Isaac made a feast for them, and they ate and drank.
Fecit ergo eis convivium, et post cibum et potum
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.
surgentes mane, iuraverunt sibi mutuo: dimisitque eos Isaac pacifice in locum suum.
32 That same day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well that they had dug. They said, “We have found water.”
Ecce autem venerunt in ipso die servi Isaac annunciantes ei de puteo, quem foderant, atque dicentes: Invenimus aquam.
33 He called the well Shibah, so the name of that city is Beersheba to this day.
Unde appellavit eum, Abundantiam: et nomen urbi impositum est Bersabee, usque in praesentem diem.
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.
Esau vero quadragenarius duxit uxores duas, Iudith filiam Beeri Hethaei, et Basemath filiam Elon eiusdem loci:
35 They brought sorrow to Isaac and Rebekah.
quae ambae offenderant animum Isaac et Rebeccae.
