उत्पत्ति 26
1 १ अब्राहामाच्या दिवसात जो पहिला दुष्काळ पडला होता त्यासारखा दुसरा दुष्काळ त्या देशात पडला. तेव्हा इसहाक पलिष्ट्यांचा राजा अबीमलेख याजकडे गरार नगरामध्ये गेला.
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 २ परमेश्वराने त्यास दर्शन देऊन म्हटले, “तू मिसर देशात खाली जाऊ नकोस; जो देश मी तुला सांगेन त्यामध्येच राहा.
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 या देशात उपरी म्हणून राहा आणि मी तुझ्याबरोबर असेन आणि मी तुला आशीर्वाद देईन; कारण हे सर्व देश मी तुझ्या वंशजाला देईन, आणि तुझ्या बाप अब्राहाम याला शपथ घेऊन जे वचन दिले आहे ते सर्व मी पूर्ण करीन.
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 मी तुझे वंशज आकाशातील ताऱ्यांइतके बहुगुणित करीन आणि हे सर्व देश मी तुझ्या वंशजांना देईन. तुझ्या वंशजांद्वारे पृथ्वीवरील सर्व राष्ट्रे आशीर्वादित होतील.
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 मी हे करीन कारण अब्राहामाने माझा शब्द पाळला आणि माझे विधी, माझ्या आज्ञा, माझे नियम व माझे कायदे पाळले.”
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 जेव्हा तेथील लोकांनी त्याच्या पत्नीविषयी त्यास विचारले, तेव्हा तो म्हणाला, “ती माझी बहीण आहे.” “ती माझी पत्नी आहे,” असे म्हणण्यास तो घाबरला. कारण त्याने विचार केला की, “रिबकेला मिळविण्यासाठी या ठिकाणचे लोक माझा घात करतील, कारण ती दिसायला इतकी सुंदर आहे.”
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 इसहाक बराच काळ तेथे राहिल्यावर, पलिष्ट्यांचा राजा अबीमलेख ह्याने एकदा खिडकीतून बाहेर पाहताना पाहिले की, इसहाक त्याच्या पत्नीला रिबकेला प्रेमाने कुरवाळत आहे.
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 अबीमलेखाने इसहाकाला बोलावले आणि म्हणाला, “पाहा नक्कीच ही तुझी पत्नी आहे. मग, ‘ती तुझी बहीण आहे’ असे तू का सांगितलेस?” इसहाक त्यास म्हणाला, “कारण मला वाटले की, तिला मिळविण्यासाठी कोणीही मला मारून टाकेल.”
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 अबीमलेख म्हणाला, “तू आम्हांला हे काय केलेस? कारण आमच्या लोकांतून कोणीही तुझ्या पत्नीबरोबर सहज लैंगिक संबंध केला असता, आणि त्यामुळे तू आमच्यावर दोष आणला असतास.”
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 म्हणून अबीमलेखाने सर्व लोकांस ताकीद दिली आणि म्हणाला, “जो कोणी या मनुष्यास किंवा याच्या पत्नीला हात लावेल त्यास खचित जिवे मारण्यात येईल.”
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 १२ इसहाकाने त्या देशात धान्य पेरले आणि त्याच वर्षी त्यास शंभरपट पीक मिळाले, कारण परमेश्वराने त्यास आशीर्वाद दिला.
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.
14 १४ त्याच्याकडे पुष्कळ मेंढरे व गुरेढोरे, मोठा कुटुंबकबिला होता. त्यावरून पलिष्टी त्याचा हेवा करू लागले;
He had large herds of sheep and goats and cattle, and many slaves. Because of that, the Philistine people envied him.
15 १५ म्हणून त्याच्या वडिलाच्या हयातीत पूर्वी त्याच्या नोकरांनी खणलेल्या सर्व विहिरी पलिष्ट्यांनी मातीने बुजवल्या होत्या.
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 १६ तेव्हा अबीमलेख इसहाकास म्हणाला, “तू आमचा देश सोडून निघून जा कारण आमच्यापेक्षा तू अधिक शक्तीमान झाला आहेस.”
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 अब्राहामाने आपल्या दिवसात ज्या पाण्याच्या विहिरी खणल्या होत्या, परंतु अब्राहामाच्या मरणानंतर त्या पलिष्टी लोकांनी मातीने बुजविल्या होत्या त्या पुन्हा एकदा इसहाकाने खणून घेतल्या, आणि त्याच्या वडिलाने दिलेली नावेच पुन्हा त्याने दिली.
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 १९ जेव्हा इसहाकाच्या नोकरांनी एक विहीर खोऱ्यात खणली, तेव्हा त्या विहिरीत त्यांना एक जिवंत पाण्याचा झरा लगला.
Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of fresh water.
20 २० गरार खोऱ्यातील गुराख्यांनी इसहाकाच्या गुराख्यांशी भांडणे केली, ते म्हणाले, “हे पाणी आमचे आहे.” ते त्याच्याशी भांडले म्हणून इसहाकाने त्या विहिरीचे नाव “एसेक” ठेवले.
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.
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 तो तेथून निघाला आणि त्याने आणखी एक विहीर खणली, परंतु तिच्यासाठी ते भांडले नाहीत म्हणून त्याने तिचे नाव रहोबोथ ठेवले. आणि तो म्हणाला, “आता परमेश्वरने आम्हासाठी जागा शोधून दिली आहे, आणि देशात आमची भरभराट होईल.”
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 त्याच रात्री परमेश्वराने इसहाकाला दर्शन देऊन म्हटले, “मी तुझा बाप अब्राहाम याचा देव आहे. भिऊ नकोस, कारण मी तुझ्याबरोबर आहे आणि माझा सेवक अब्राहाम याच्यासाठी मी तुला आशीर्वादित करीन व तुझे वंशज बहुतपट करीन.”
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 तेव्हा इसहाकाने तेथे वेदी बांधली व परमेश्वराच्या नावाने प्रार्थना केली. त्याने तेथे आपला तंबू ठोकला आणि त्याच्या नोकरांनी एक विहीर खणली.
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 २६ नंतर गराराहून अबीमलेख, त्याचा मित्र अहुज्जाथ व त्याच्या सैन्याचा सेनापती पिकोल हे त्याच्याकडे गेले.
[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 इसहाकाने त्यांना विचारले, “तुम्ही माझा द्वेष करता व मला तुम्ही आपणापासून दूर केलेत; तर आता तुम्ही माझ्याकडे का आलात?”
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 आणि ते म्हणाले, “परमेश्वर तुझ्याबरोबर आहे हे आम्हांला स्पष्टपणे दिसून आले आहे. म्हणून आम्ही ठरवले आहे की, आपणांमध्ये म्हणजे आम्हामध्ये व तुझ्यामध्ये तह असावा. म्हणून तू आम्हाबरोबर करार कर,
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 जसे आम्ही तुझी हानी केली नाही, आणि आम्ही तुझ्याशी चांगले वागलो आणि तुला शांतीने पाठवले, तशी तू आम्हास हानी करू नको. खरोखर परमेश्वराने तुला आशीर्वादित केले आहे.”
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 दुसऱ्या दिवशी सकाळी लवकर उठून एकमेकांशी शपथ वाहिली. नंतर इसहाकाने त्यांना रवाना केले आणि ते शांतीने त्याच्यापासून गेले.
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 त्याच दिवशी इसहाकाच्या नोकरांनी येऊन त्यांनी खणलेल्या विहिरीविषयी त्यास सांगितले. ते म्हणाले, “त्या विहिरीत आम्हांस पाणी मिळाले आहे.”
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 एसाव चाळीस वर्षांचा झाल्यावर त्याने हेथी स्त्रियांशी लग्ने केली, एकीचे नाव होते यहूदीथ, ही बैरी हित्तीची मुलगी, आणि दुसरीचे नाव होते बासमथ, ही एलोन हित्तीची मुलगी होती.
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.
