Бытие 26
1 Бысть же глад на земли, кроме глада бывшаго прежде во время Авраамле. Отиде же Исаак ко Авимелеху царю Филистимску в Герар:
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 явися же ему Господь и рече: не ходи во Египет, вселися же в земли, в нейже ти реку,
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 и обитай в земли той, и буду с тобою, и благословлю тя: тебе бо и семени твоему дам всю землю сию и поставлю клятву Мою, еюже кляхся Аврааму отцу твоему:
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 и умножу семя твое, яко звезды небесныя, и дам семени твоему всю землю сию: и благословятся о семени твоем вси языцы земнии:
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 понеже послуша отец твой Авраам Моего гласа и соблюде заповеди Моя и повеления Моя, и оправдания Моя и законы Моя.
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 Вселися же Исаак в Герарех.
[so Isaac] stayed there [along with his wife and sons].
7 Вопросиша же мужие места того о Ревекце жене его, и рече: сестра ми есть. Убояся бо рещи, яко жена ми есть, да не когда убиют его мужие места того Ревекки ради, понеже бе доброзрачна.
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 Бысть же много время тамо: и приникнув Авимелех царь Герарский окном, виде Исаака играюща с Ревеккою женою своею.
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 Призва же Авимелех Исаака и рече ему: убо жена твоя есть? Почто рекл еси, яко сестра ми есть? Рече же ему Исаак: рех бо, да не умру ея ради.
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 Рече же ему Авимелех: что сие сотворил еси нам? Вмале не бысть некто от рода моего с женою твоею, и навел бы еси на ны неведение.
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 Заповеда же Авимелех всем людем своим, глаголя: всяк, иже прикоснется мужу сему, или жене его, смерти повинен будет.
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 Сея же Исаак в земли той, и приобрете в то лето стократный плод ячменя: благослови же его Господь.
Isaac planted grain in that land that year, and he harvested a very large crop, because Yahweh blessed him.
13 И возвысися человек, и преуспевая болший бываше, дондеже велик бысть зело.
Isaac continued to acquire more and more possessions, until finally he became very wealthy.
14 Быша же ему скоти овец и скоти волов и земледелия многа. Позавидеша же ему Филистимляне:
He had large herds of sheep and goats and cattle, and many slaves. Because of that, the Philistine people envied him.
15 и вся кладязи, яже ископаша раби отца его, во время отца его, заградиша я Филистимляне и наполниша тыя землею.
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 Рече же Авимелех ко Исааку: отиди от нас, яко силнейший сотворился еси от нас зело.
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 И отиде оттуду Исаак и обита в дебри Герарстей, и вселися тамо.
So Isaac [and his family] moved from there. They set up their tents in Gerar Valley [and started to live there].
18 И паки Исаак ископа кладязи водныя, яже ископаша раби Авраама отца его, и заградиша тыя Филистимляне, по умертвии Авраама отца его: и прозва им имена, по именам, имиже прозва Авраам отец его.
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 И ископаша раби Исааковы в дебри Герарстей, и обретоша тамо кладязь воды живы.
Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of fresh water.
20 И пряхуся пастырие Герарстии с пастырми Исааковыми, глаголюще: наша есть вода. И прозва имя кладязю тому Обида: обидяху бо его.
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 Отшед же оттуду Исаак, ископа кладязь другий. Пряхуся же и о том: и прозва имя ему Вражда.
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 Отшед же оттуду, ископа кладязь другий. И не пряхуся о том, и прозва имя ему Пространство, глаголя: яко ныне распространи Господь нам и возрасти нас на земли.
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 Взыде же оттуду ко кладязю Клятвенному:
From there Isaac went up to Beersheba.
24 и явися ему Господь в ту нощь и рече: Аз есмь Бог Авраама отца твоего, не бойся, с тобою бо есмь: и благословлю тя, и умножу семя твое Авраама ради отца твоего.
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 И созда тамо жертвенник, и призва имя Господне: и постави тамо скинию свою: ископаша же тамо раби Исааковы кладязь в дебри Герарстей.
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 И Авимелех прииде к нему от Герар, и Охозаф невестоводитель его, и Фихол воевода сил его.
[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 И рече им Исаак: вскую приидосте ко мне? Вы же возненавидесте мене и отсласте мя от себе.
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 Они же реша: видевше узрехом, яко бе Господь с тобою, и рехом: буди клятва между нами и между тобою, и завещаим с тобою завет,
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 да не сотвориши с нами зла, якоже не возгнушахомся тобою мы, и якоже сотворихом тебе добро, и отпустихом тя с миром: и ныне благословен ты от Господа.
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 И сотвори им пир, и ядоша и пиша.
So Isaac made a feast for them, and they all ate and drank.
31 И воставше заутра, клятся кийждо ближнему: и отпусти я Исаак, и отидоша от него здравы.
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 Бысть же в той день, и пришедше раби Исааковы поведаша ему о кладязе, егоже ископаша, и рекоша: не обретохом воды.
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 И прозва его Клятва. Сего ради прозва имя граду оному кладязь Клятвенный, даже до днешняго дне.
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 Бяше же Исав лет четыредесяти: и поя жену Иудифу, дщерь Веоха Хеттеина, и Васемафу, дщерь Елона Хеттеина.
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 И быша противящеся Исаакови и Ревекце.
Esau’s two wives made life miserable for Isaac and Rebekah.
