Genesis 26
1 Tuh oasr pac sie sracl in facl sac sayen sracl se meet in pacl lal Abraham. Ke ma inge Isaac el mukuiyak som nu in acn Gerar, nu yorol Abimelech, tokosra lun mwet Philistia.
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 LEUM GOD El sikyang nu sel Isaac ac fahk nu sel, “Nimet kom som nu Egypt. Mutana in facl se inge, ke acn se nga ac fahk nu sum in muta we.
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 Muta inge, ac nga ac fah wi kom ac akinsewowoye kom. Nga ac sot facl se inge nufon nu sum ac nu sin fwilin tulik nutum. Nga ac akpwayeye wulela se nga tuh orala nu sel Abraham, papa tomom.
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 Nga ac arulana akpusye fwilin tulik nutum ac elos ac fah oana pusiyen itu inkusrao, ac nga ac sang nu selos facl se inge nufon. Mutunfacl nukewa ac fah siyuk sik nga in akinsewowoyalos oana ke nga akinsewowoye fwil nutum.
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 Nga fah akinsewowoye kom, mweyen Abraham el tuh akosyu ac liyaung ma sap nukewa ac ma oakwuk nukewa su nga sapkin.”
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 Ouinge Isaac el mutana Gerar.
[so Isaac] stayed there [along with his wife and sons].
7 Ke mukul in acn we elos tuh siyuk ke mutan kial, el fahk nu selos mu ma loul pa Rebecca. El tiana fahkak lah mutan kial pa el, mweyen el sensen mukul we ac unilya ac eisalla Rebecca, mweyen el arulana oasku.
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 Na ke Isaac el muta we paht kutu, Tokosra Abimelech el ngeti liki winto lal, ac liyalak Isaac ke el sritalel Rebecca.
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 Abimelech el sapla solalma Isaac ac fahk nu sel, “Ma kiom pa mutan sac! Efu ku kom fahk mu ma loum?” Na Isaac el fahk “Nga sensen mu nga ac fin fahk mu ma kiuk pa el, na ac anwuki nga.”
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 Na Abimelech el fahk, “Mea se kom oru nu sesr inge? Sie sin mukul luk inge funu ona yurin mutan kiom an, lukun kom pa pwanma mwatasr.”
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 Na Abimelech el akesmakye mwet nukewa, “Kutena mwet su oru koluk nu sin mwet se inge, ku mutan kial uh, ac fah anwuki.”
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 Isaac el oru ima se lal in facl sac, ac in yac sac el kosrani pacl siofok yohk liki lupan ma el taknelik, mweyen LEUM GOD El akinsewowoyal.
Isaac planted grain in that land that year, and he harvested a very large crop, because Yahweh blessed him.
13 El kapkapak na in ma nukewa, oru el sie mwet arulana kasrup.
Isaac continued to acquire more and more possessions, until finally he became very wealthy.
14 Mweyen oasr un kosro puspis natul ke sheep ac cow ac mwet kulansap puspis lal, mwet Philistia elos sokyak sel.
He had large herds of sheep and goats and cattle, and many slaves. Because of that, the Philistine people envied him.
15 Lufin kof nukewa ma mwet kulansap lal Abraham, papa tumal, tuh pukanak ke el srakna moul, mwet Philistia elos nwakla ke fohk.
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 Na Abimelech el fahk nu sel Isaac, “Fahla liki facl sesr uh. Kom arulana ku liki kut lac.”
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 Ouinge Isaac el som ac oakiya nien aktuktuk lal Infalfal Gerar, ac muta we.
So Isaac [and his family] moved from there. They set up their tents in Gerar Valley [and started to live there].
18 El sifilpa pukanak lufin kof ma Abraham, papa tumal, el tuh pukanak in pacl lal, su mwet Philistia elos tuh taunya tukun Abraham el misa. Isaac el sang pacna inen lufin kof inge ke ine ma papa tumal ah tuh sang nu kac.
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 Mwet kulansap lal Isaac ah pikin lufin kof se infalfal sac nwe sun unon in kof se.
Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of fresh water.
20 Mwet liyaung kosro in acn Gerar elos alein nu sin mwet liyaung kosro lal Isaac, ac fahk, “Lufin kof se inge ma lasr.” Ouinge Isaac el sang inen luf sac “Alein.”
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 Mwet kulansap lal Isaac elos sifilpa pukanak sie lufin kof, ac oasr pac alein kac. Ke ma inge el sang inen luf se inge, “Akwasui.”
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 El som liki acn sac ac sifilpa pukanak sie luf uh. Wangin alein nu sel ke luf se inge, ouinge el pangon luf sac, “Sukosok.” Ac el fahk, “Inge LEUM GOD El ase nu sesr sukosok in muta fin acn se inge, ac kut ac fah kapkapak fin acn se inge.”
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 Isaac el tuyak ac som nu Beersheba.
From there Isaac went up to Beersheba.
24 In fong sac LEUM GOD El sikyang nu sel ac fahk, “Nga God lal Abraham, papa tomom. Nik kom sangeng. Nga ac wi kom ac nga fah akinsewowoye kom ac sot fwilin tulik puspis nutum, ke sripen wuleang luk nu sel Abraham, mwet kulansap luk.”
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 Isaac el etoak loang se we ac alu nu sin LEUM GOD. Na el tulokunak nien aktuktuk lal we, ac mwet kulansap lal elos sifilpla pukanak lufin kof se.
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 Abimelech el tuku Gerar me, usal Ahuzzath mwet kasru fulat lal, ac Phicol leum lun un mwet mweun lal welul, in tuh sonol Isaac.
[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 Ke ma inge Isaac el siyuk, “Efu ku komtal tuku liyeyu? Komtal tuh srungayula ac lisyula liki facl sumtal ah.”
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 Abimelech el topuk ac fahk, “Inge kut etu lah LEUM GOD El wi kom, ac kut nunku mu ac wona in oasr sie wulela na ku inmasrlosr. Kut lungse kom in wulela
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 lah kom ac tia aklokoalokye kut oapana ke kut tuh tiana aklokoalokye kom ah. Kut tuh kulang na nu sum ac supwekomla in misla. Inge kalem na sesr lah LEUM GOD El akinsewowoye kom.”
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 Isaac el akoela kufwa se nu selos, ac elos tukeni mongoi.
So Isaac made a feast for them, and they all ate and drank.
31 Toangna in lotu tok ah, eltal tukakek ac akkeyala wulela inmasrloltal. Na Isaac el wilkas nu selos, ac elos fahsrelik kawuk na wowo.
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 Ke len sacna mwet kulansap lal Isaac elos tuku ac fahkang nu sel ke lufin kof se ma elos pukanak. Elos fahk, “Kut konauk kof.”
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 El sang inen lufin kof sac “Wuleang Ku.” Pa ingan sripa se oru pangpang siti sac Beersheba.
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 Ke Esau el yac angngaul, el payukyak sin mutan Hit luo: Judith acn natul Beeri, ac Basemath acn natul Elon.
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 Mutan luo inge arulana aktoasryal Isaac ac Rebecca.
Esau’s two wives made life miserable for Isaac and Rebekah.
