Gênesis 26
1 E havia fome na terra, além da primeira fome, que foi nos dias de Abraão: por isso foi-se Isaac a Abimelech, rei dos philisteus, em Gerar.
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 apareceu-lhe o Senhor, e disse: Não desças ao Egito; habita na terra que eu te disser:
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 Peregrina nesta terra, e serei contigo, e te abençoarei; porque a ti e à tua semente darei todas estas terras, e confirmarei o juramento que tenho jurado a Abraão teu pai;
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 multiplicarei a tua semente como as estrelas dos céus, e darei à tua semente todas estas terras; e em tua semente serão benditas todas as nações da terra;
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 Porquanto Abraão obedeceu à minha voz, e guardou o meu mandado, os meus preceitos, os meus estatutos, e as minhas leis.
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 Assim habitou Isaac em Gerar.
[so Isaac] stayed there [along with his wife and sons].
7 E perguntando-lhe os varões daquele lugar acerca de sua mulher, disse: É minha irmã; porque temia de dizer: É minha mulher; para que porventura (dizia ele) me não matem os varões daquele lugar por amor de Rebeca; porque era formosa à vista.
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 E aconteceu que, como ele esteve ali muito tempo, Abimelech rei dos philisteus olhou por uma janela, e viu, e eis que Isaac estava brincando com Rebeca sua mulher.
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 Então chamou Abimelech a Isaac, e disse: Eis que na verdade é tua mulher; como pois disseste: É minha irmã? E disse-lhe Isaac: Porque eu dizia: Para que eu porventura não morra por causa dela.
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 disse Abimelech: Que é isto que nos fizeste? Facilmente se teria deitado alguém deste povo com a tua mulher, e tu terias trazido sobre nós um delito.
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 mandou Abimelech a todo o povo, dizendo: Qualquer que tocar a este varão ou a sua mulher, certamente morrerá.
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 semeou Isaac naquela mesma terra, e achou naquele mesmo ano cem medidas, porque o Senhor o abençoava.
Isaac planted grain in that land that year, and he harvested a very large crop, because Yahweh blessed him.
13 E engrandeceu-se o varão, e ia-se engrandecendo, até que se tornou mui grande;
Isaac continued to acquire more and more possessions, until finally he became very wealthy.
14 E tinha possessão de ovelhas, e possessão de vacas, e muita gente de serviço, de maneira que os philisteus o invejavam.
He had large herds of sheep and goats and cattle, and many slaves. Because of that, the Philistine people envied him.
15 E todos os poços, que os servos de seu pai tinham cavado nos dias de seu pai Abraão, os philisteus entulharam e encheram de terra.
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 Disse também Abimelech a Isaac: Aparta-te de nós; porque muito mais poderoso te tens feito do que nós.
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 Então Isaac foi-se dali e fez o seu assento no vale de Gerar, e habitou lá.
So Isaac [and his family] moved from there. They set up their tents in Gerar Valley [and started to live there].
18 E tornou Isaac, e cavou os poços d'água que cavaram nos dias de Abraão seu pai, e que os philisteus taparam depois da morte de Abraão, e chamou-os pelos nomes que os chamara seu pai.
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 Cavaram pois os servos de Isaac naquele vale, e acharam ali um poço de águas vivas.
Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of fresh water.
20 E os pastores de Gerar porfiaram com os pastores de Isaac, dizendo. Esta água é nossa. Por isso chamou o nome daquele poço Esek, porque contenderam com ele.
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 Então cavaram outro poço, e também porfiaram sobre ele: por isso chamou o seu nome Sitnah.
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 E partiu dali, e cavou outro poço, e não porfiaram sobre ele: por isso chamou o seu nome Rehoboth, e disse: Porque agora nos alargou o Senhor, e crescemos nesta terra.
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 Depois subiu dali a Berseba,
From there Isaac went up to Beersheba.
24 E apareceu-lhe o Senhor naquela mesma noite, e disse: Eu sou o Deus de Abraão teu pai: não temas, porque eu sou contigo, e abençoar-te-ei, e multiplicarei a tua semente por amor de Abraão meu servo.
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 Então edificou ali um altar, e invocou o nome do Senhor, e armou ali a sua tenda; e os servos de Isaac cavaram ali um poço.
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 Abimelech veio a ele de Gerar, com Ahuzzath seu amigo, e Phichol, príncipe do seu exército.
[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 disse-lhes Isaac: Porque viestes a mim, pois que vós me aborreceis, e me enviastes de vós?
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 E eles disseram: Havemos visto, na verdade, que o Senhor é contigo, pelo que dissemos: Haja agora juramento entre nós, entre nós e ti; e façamos concerto contigo,
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 Que nos não faças mal, como nós te não temos tocado, e como te fizemos somente bem, e te deixamos ir em paz. Agora tu és o bendito do Senhor
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 Então lhes fez um banquete, e comeram e beberam;
So Isaac made a feast for them, and they all ate and drank.
31 E levantaram-se de madrugada, e juraram um ao outro; depois os despediu Isaac, e despediram-se dele em paz.
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 E aconteceu naquele mesmo dia que vieram os servos de Isaac, e anunciaram-lhe acerca do negócio do peço, que tinham cavado; e disseram-lhe: Temos achado água.
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 E chamou-o Seba: por isso é o nome daquela cidade Berseba até o dia de hoje.
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 Ora sendo Esaú da idade de quarenta anos, tomou por mulher a Judith, filha de Beeri, hetheu, e a Basmath filha de Elon, hetheu.
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 E estas foram a Isaac e a Rebeca uma amargura de espírito.
Esau’s two wives made life miserable for Isaac and Rebekah.
