Genesis 26
1 orta autem fame super terram post eam sterilitatem quae acciderat in diebus Abraham abiit Isaac ad Abimelech regem Palestinorum in Gerara
There was a famine in the land, in addition to the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.
2 apparuitque ei Dominus et ait ne descendas in Aegyptum sed quiesce in terra quam dixero tibi
Yahweh appeared to him, and said, “Don’t go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.
3 et peregrinare in ea eroque tecum et benedicam tibi tibi enim et semini tuo dabo universas regiones has conplens iuramentum quod spopondi Abraham patri tuo
Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.
4 et multiplicabo semen tuum sicut stellas caeli daboque posteris tuis universas regiones has et benedicentur in semine tuo omnes gentes terrae
I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed,
5 eo quod oboedierit Abraham voci meae et custodierit praecepta et mandata mea et caerimonias legesque servaverit
because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”
6 mansit itaque Isaac in Geraris
Isaac lived in Gerar.
7 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
The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “My wife”, lest, he thought, “the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at.”
8 cumque pertransissent dies plurimi et ibi demoraretur prospiciens Abimelech Palestinorum rex per fenestram vidit eum iocantem cum Rebecca uxore sua
When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.
9 et accersito ait perspicuum est quod uxor tua sit cur mentitus es sororem tuam esse respondit timui ne morerer propter eam
Abimelech called Isaac, and said, “Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac said to him, “Because I said, ‘Lest I die because of her.’”
10 dixitque Abimelech quare inposuisti nobis potuit coire quispiam de populo cum uxore tua et induxeras super nos grande peccatum praecepitque omni populo dicens
Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!”
11 qui tetigerit hominis huius uxorem morte morietur
Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”
12 seruit autem Isaac in terra illa et invenit in ipso anno centuplum benedixitque ei Dominus
Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.
13 et locupletatus est homo et ibat proficiens atque succrescens donec magnus vehementer effectus est
The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great.
14 habuit quoque possessionem ovium et armentorum et familiae plurimum ob haec invidentes ei Palestini
He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.
15 omnes puteos quos foderant servi patris illius Abraham illo tempore obstruxerunt implentes humo
Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.
16 in tantum ut ipse Abimelech diceret ad Isaac recede a nobis quoniam potentior nostri factus es valde
Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.”
17 et ille discedens veniret ad torrentem Gerarae habitaretque ibi
Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.
18 rursum fodit alios puteos quos foderant servi patris sui Abraham et quos illo mortuo olim obstruxerant Philisthim appellavitque eos hisdem nominibus quibus ante pater vocaverat
Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father, for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
19 foderunt in torrente et reppererunt aquam vivam
Isaac’s servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of flowing water.
20 sed et ibi iurgium fuit pastorum Gerarae adversum pastores Isaac dicentium nostra est aqua quam ob rem nomen putei ex eo quod acciderat vocavit Calumniam
The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” So he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.
21 foderunt et alium et pro illo quoque rixati sunt appellavitque eum Inimicitias
They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. So he called its name Sitnah.
22 profectus inde fodit alium puteum pro quo non contenderunt itaque vocavit nomen illius Latitudo dicens nunc dilatavit nos Dominus et fecit crescere super terram
He left that place, and dug another well. They didn’t argue over that one. So he called it Rehoboth. He said, “For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”
23 ascendit autem ex illo loco in Bersabee
He went up from there to Beersheba.
24 ubi apparuit ei Dominus in ipsa nocte dicens ego sum Deus Abraham patris tui noli metuere quia tecum sum benedicam tibi et multiplicabo semen tuum propter servum meum Abraham
Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham’s sake.”
25 itaque aedificavit ibi altare et invocato nomine Domini extendit tabernaculum praecepitque servis suis ut foderent puteum
He built an altar there, and called on Yahweh’s name, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac’s servants dug a well.
26 ad quem locum cum venissent de Geraris Abimelech et Ochozath amicus illius et Fichol dux militum
Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.
27 locutus est eis Isaac quid venistis ad me hominem quem odistis et expulistis a vobis
Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?”
28 qui responderunt vidimus tecum esse Dominum et idcirco nunc diximus sit iuramentum inter nos et ineamus foedus
They said, “We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. We said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let’s make a covenant with you,
29 ut non facias nobis quicquam mali sicut et nos nihil tuorum adtigimus nec fecimus quod te laederet sed cum pace dimisimus auctum benedictione Domini
that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.’ You are now the blessed of Yahweh.”
30 fecit ergo eis convivium et post cibum et potum
He made them a feast, and they ate and drank.
31 surgentes mane iuraverunt sibi mutuo dimisitque eos Isaac pacifice in locum suum
They rose up some time in the morning, and swore an oath to one another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
32 ecce autem venerunt in ipso die servi Isaac adnuntiantes ei de puteo quem foderant atque dicentes invenimus aquam
The same day, Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.”
33 unde appellavit eum Abundantiam et nomen urbi inpositum est Bersabee usque in praesentem diem
He called it “Shibah”. Therefore the name of the city is “Beersheba” to this day.
34 Esau vero quadragenarius duxit uxores Iudith filiam Beeri Hetthei et Basemath filiam Helon eiusdem loci
When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
35 quae ambae offenderant animum Isaac et Rebeccae
They grieved Isaac’s and Rebekah’s spirits.
