उत्पत्ति 26
1 १ उस देश में अकाल पड़ा, वह उस पहले अकाल से अलग था जो अब्राहम के दिनों में पड़ा था। इसलिए इसहाक गरार को पलिश्तियों के राजा अबीमेलेक के पास गया।
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],
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 ३ तू इसी देश में रह, और मैं तेरे संग रहूँगा, और तुझे आशीष दूँगा; और ये सब देश मैं तुझको, और तेरे वंश को दूँगा; और जो शपथ मैंने तेरे पिता अब्राहम से खाई थी, उसे मैं पूरी करूँगा।
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 ४ और मैं तेरे वंश को आकाश के तारागण के समान करूँगा; और मैं तेरे वंश को ये सब देश दूँगा, और पृथ्वी की सारी जातियाँ तेरे वंश के कारण अपने को धन्य मानेंगी।
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 ५ क्योंकि अब्राहम ने मेरी मानी, और जो मैंने उसे सौंपा था उसको और मेरी आज्ञाओं, विधियों और व्यवस्था का पालन किया।”
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,”]
[so Isaac] stayed there [along with his wife and sons].
7 ७ जब उस स्थान के लोगों ने उसकी पत्नी के विषय में पूछा, तब उसने यह सोचकर कि यदि मैं उसको अपनी पत्नी कहूँ, तो यहाँ के लोग रिबका के कारण जो परम सुन्दरी है मुझ को मार डालेंगे, उत्तर दिया, “वह तो मेरी बहन है।”
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 ८ जब उसको वहाँ रहते बहुत दिन बीत गए, तब एक दिन पलिश्तियों के राजा अबीमेलेक ने खिड़की में से झाँककर क्या देखा कि इसहाक अपनी पत्नी रिबका के साथ क्रीड़ा कर रहा है।
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 ९ तब अबीमेलेक ने इसहाक को बुलवाकर कहा, “वह तो निश्चय तेरी पत्नी है; फिर तूने क्यों उसको अपनी बहन कहा?” इसहाक ने उत्तर दिया, “मैंने सोचा था, कि ऐसा न हो कि उसके कारण मेरी मृत्यु हो।”
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 १० अबीमेलेक ने कहा, “तूने हम से यह क्या किया? ऐसे तो प्रजा में से कोई तेरी पत्नी के साथ सहज से कुकर्म कर सकता, और तू हमको पाप में फँसाता।”
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 ११ इसलिए अबीमेलेक ने अपनी सारी प्रजा को आज्ञा दी, “जो कोई उस पुरुष को या उस स्त्री को छूएगा, वह निश्चय मार डाला जाएगा।”
Then Abimelech commanded all his people, saying, “Do not harm/molest this man or his wife! Anyone who does that will surely be executed!”
Isaac planted grain in that land that year, and he harvested a very large crop, because Yahweh blessed him.
Isaac continued to acquire more and more possessions, until finally he became very wealthy.
He had large herds of sheep and goats and cattle, and many slaves. Because of that, the Philistine people envied him.
15 १५ इसलिए जितने कुओं को उसके पिता अब्राहम के दासों ने अब्राहम के जीते जी खोदा था, उनको पलिश्तियों ने मिट्टी से भर दिया।
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.
Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “You people have become more numerous than we are, so I want you to get out of our area.”
So Isaac [and his family] moved from there. They set up their tents in Gerar Valley [and started to live there].
18 १८ तब जो कुएँ उसके पिता अब्राहम के दिनों में खोदे गए थे, और अब्राहम के मरने के पीछे पलिश्तियों ने भर दिए थे, उनको इसहाक ने फिर से खुदवाया; और उनके वे ही नाम रखे, जो उसके पिता ने रखे थे।
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.
Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of fresh water.
20 २० तब गरार के चरवाहों ने इसहाक के चरवाहों से झगड़ा किया, और कहा, “यह जल हमारा है।” इसलिए उसने उस कुएँ का नाम एसेक रखा; क्योंकि वे उससे झगड़े थे।
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 २१ फिर उन्होंने दूसरा कुआँ खोदा; और उन्होंने उसके लिये भी झगड़ा किया, इसलिए उसने उसका नाम सित्ना रखा।
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 २२ तब उसने वहाँ से निकलकर एक और कुआँ खुदवाया; और उसके लिये उन्होंने झगड़ा न किया; इसलिए उसने उसका नाम यह कहकर रहोबोत रखा, “अब तो यहोवा ने हमारे लिये बहुत स्थान दिया है, और हम इस देश में फूले-फलेंगे।”
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.”
From there Isaac went up to Beersheba.
24 २४ और उसी दिन यहोवा ने रात को उसे दर्शन देकर कहा, “मैं तेरे पिता अब्राहम का परमेश्वर हूँ; मत डर, क्योंकि मैं तेरे साथ हूँ, और अपने दास अब्राहम के कारण तुझे आशीष दूँगा, और तेरा वंश बढ़ाऊँगा।”
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 २५ तब उसने वहाँ एक वेदी बनाई, और यहोवा से प्रार्थना की, और अपना तम्बू वहीं खड़ा किया; और वहाँ इसहाक के दासों ने एक कुआँ खोदा।
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.
[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 २७ इसहाक ने उनसे कहा, “तुम ने मुझसे बैर करके अपने बीच से निकाल दिया था, अब मेरे पास क्यों आए हो?”
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 २८ उन्होंने कहा, “हमने तो प्रत्यक्ष देखा है, कि यहोवा तेरे साथ रहता है; इसलिए हमने सोचा, कि तू तो यहोवा की ओर से धन्य है, अतः हमारे तेरे बीच में शपथ खाई जाए, और हम तुझ से इस विषय की वाचा बन्धाएँ;
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 २९ कि जैसे हमने तुझे नहीं छुआ, वरन् तेरे साथ केवल भलाई ही की है, और तुझको कुशल क्षेम से विदा किया, उसके अनुसार तू भी हम से कोई बुराई न करेगा।”
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.”
So Isaac made a feast for them, and they all ate and drank.
31 ३१ सवेरे उन सभी ने तड़के उठकर आपस में शपथ खाई; तब इसहाक ने उनको विदा किया, और वे कुशल क्षेम से उसके पास से चले गए।
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 ३२ उसी दिन इसहाक के दासों ने आकर अपने उस खोदे हुए कुएँ का वृत्तान्त सुनाकर कहा, “हमको जल का एक सोता मिला है।”
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!”
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 ३४ जब एसाव चालीस वर्ष का हुआ, तब उसने हित्ती बेरी की बेटी यहूदीत, और हित्ती एलोन की बेटी बासमत को ब्याह लिया;
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].
Esau’s two wives made life miserable for Isaac and Rebekah.
