Genesi 26

1 OR vi fu fame nel paese, oltre alla prima fame ch'era stata al tempo di Abrahamo. E Isacco se ne andò ad Abimelecco, re de' Filistei, in Gherar.

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 E il Signore gli apparve, e [gli] disse: Non iscendere in Egitto; dimora nel paese che io ti dirò.

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 Dimora in questo paese, ed io sarò teco, e ti benedirò; perciocchè io darò a te, ed alla tua progenie, tutti questi paesi; ed atterrò ciò che io ho giurato ad Abrahamo tuo padre.

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 E moltiplicherò la tua progenie, [talchè sarà] come le stelle del cielo; e darò alla tua progenie tutti questi paesi; e tutte le nazioni della terra saranno benedette nella tua progenie.

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 Perciocchè Abrahamo ubbidì alla mia voce ed osservò ciò che io gli avea imposto di osservare, i miei comandamenti, i miei statuti, e le mie leggi.

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 E Isacco adunque dimorò in Gherar.

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

7 E le genti del luogo lo domandarono della sua moglie. Ed egli disse: Ella [è] mia sorella; perciocchè egli temeva di dire: Ella [è] mia moglie; che talora le genti del luogo non l'uccidessero per cagion di Rebecca; perciocchè ella [era] di bell'aspetto.

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 Or avvenne che, dopo ch'egli fu dimorato quivi alquanti giorni, Abimelecco, re de' Filistei, riguardando per la finestra, vide Isacco, che scherzava con Rebecca, sua moglie.

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 E Abimelecco chiamò Isacco, e [gli] disse: Ecco, costei [è] pur tua moglie; come adunque hai tu detto: Ell'[è] mia sorella? E Isacco gli disse: Perciocchè io diceva: [E' mi convien guardare] che io non muoia per cagion d'essa.

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 E Abimelecco [gli] disse: Che cosa [è] questo che tu ci hai fatto? per poco alcuno del popolo si sarebbe giaciuto con la tua moglie, e così tu ci avresti fatto venire addosso una [gran] colpa.

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 E Abimelecco fece un comandamento a tutto il popolo, dicendo: Chiunque toccherà quest'uomo, o la sua moglie, del tutto sarà fatto morire.

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 E Isacco seminò in quel paese; e quell'anno trovò cento [per uno]. E il Signore lo benedisse.

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

13 E quell'uomo divenne grande, e andò del continuo crescendo, finchè fu sommamente accresciuto.

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

14 Ed avea gregge di minuto bestiame, ed armenti di grosso, e molta famiglia; e perciò i Filistei lo invidiavano.

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

15 Laonde turarono, ed empierono di terra tutti i pozzi che i servitori di suo padre aveano cavati al tempo di Abrahamo.

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 E Abimelecco disse ad Isacco: Partiti da noi; perciocchè tu sei divenuto molto più possente di noi.

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 Isacco adunque si partì di là, e tese i padiglioni nella Valle di Gherar, e dimorò quivi.

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

18 E Isacco cavò di nuovo i pozzi d'acqua, che erano stati cavati al tempo di Abrahamo, suo padre, i quali i Filistei aveano turati dopo la morte di Abrahamo; e pose loro gli stessi nomi che suo padre avea lor posti.

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 E i servitori d'Isacco cavarono in quella valle, e trovarono quivi un pozzo d'acqua viva.

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

20 Ma i pastori di Gherar contesero co' pastori d'Isacco, dicendo: Quest'acqua [è] nostra. Ed esso nominò quel pozzo Esec; perciocchè essi ne aveano mossa briga con lui.

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 Poi cavarono un altro pozzo, e per quello ancora contesero; laonde Isacco nominò quel pozzo 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 Allora egli si tramutò di là, e cavò un altro pozzo, per lo quale non contesero; ed egli nominò quel pozzo Rehobot; e disse: Ora ci ha pure il Signore allargati, essendo noi moltiplicati in questo paese.

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 Poi di là salì in Beerseba.

From there Isaac went up to Beersheba.

24 E il Signore gli apparve in quella stessa notte, e [gli] disse: Io [son] l'Iddio di Abrahamo, tuo padre; non temere; perciocchè io [son] teco, e ti benedirò, e moltiplicherò la tua progenie, per amor di Abrahamo mio servitore.

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 Ed egli edificò quivi un altare, ed invocò il Nome del Signore, e tese quivi i suoi padiglioni; e i suoi servitori cavarono quivi un pozzo.

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 E Abimelecco andò a lui da Gherar, insieme con Ahuzat suo famigliare, e con Picol capo del suo esercito.

[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 E Isacco disse loro: Perchè siete voi venuti a me, poichè mi odiate, e mi avete mandato via d'appresso a voi?

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 Ed essi dissero: Noi abbiamo chiaramente veduto che il Signore [è] teco; laonde abbiamo detto: Siavi ora giuramento fra noi; fra noi e te, e facciamo lega teco:

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 Se giammai tu ci fai alcun male; come ancora noi non ti abbiamo toccato; e non ti abbiam fatto se non bene, e ti abbiamo rimandato in pace; tu che ora [sei] benedetto dal Signore.

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 Ed egli fece loro un convito; ed essi mangiarono e bevvero.

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

31 E, levatisi la mattina [seguente] a buon'ora, giurarono l'uno all'altro. Poi Isacco li accommiatò; ed essi si partirono da lui amichevolmente.

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 In quell'istesso giorno, i servitori d'Isacco vennero, e gli fecero rapporto di un pozzo che aveano cavato; e gli dissero: Noi abbiam trovato dell'acqua.

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 Ed egli pose nome a quel pozzo Siba; perciò quella città è stata nominata Beerseba fino ad oggi.

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 Or Esaù, essendo d'età di quarant'anni, prese per moglie Iudit, figliuola di Beeri Hitteo; e Basmat, figliuola di Elon Hitteo.

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 Ed esse furono cagione di amaritudine d'animo a Isacco ed a Rebecca.

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