Génesis 26

1 Y hubo hambre en la tierra además de la primera hambre, que fue en los días de Abraham: y fuése Isaac a Abimelec, rey de los Filisteos, en 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 Y apareciósele Jehová, y díjole: No desciendas a Egipto: habita en la tierra que yo te diré.

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 Habita en esta tierra, y yo seré contigo; y te bendeciré; porque a ti, y a tu simiente, daré todas estas tierras; y confirmaré el juramento que juré a Abraham tu padre.

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 Y yo multiplicaré tu simiente como las estrellas del cielo; y daré a tu simiente todas estas tierras: y todas las gentes de la tierra serán benditas en tu simiente;

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 Por cuanto oyó Abraham mi voz, y guardó mi observancia, mis mandamientos, mis estatutos, y mis leyes.

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 Así habitó Isaac en Gerar.

[so Isaac] stayed there [along with his wife and sons].

7 Y los hombres de aquel lugar preguntaron de su mujer; y él respondió: Es mi hermana: Porque tuvo miedo de decir; Es mi mujer: Quizá, dijo él, los varones de aquel lugar me matarán por causa de Rebeca; porque era hermosa de 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 Y fue, que como él estuvo allí muchos días, Abimelec, rey de los Filisteos, mirando por una ventana, vio a Isaac que jugaba con Rebeca su mujer:

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 Y llamó Abimelec a Isaac, y dijo: He aquí, ciertamente ella es tu mujer: ¿cómo pues dijiste: Es mi hermana? E Isaac le respondió: Porque dije: Quizá moriré por causa de ella.

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 Y Abimelec dijo: ¿Por qué nos has hecho esto? Por poco hubiera dormido alguno del pueblo con tu mujer, y hubieras traído sobre nosotros el pecado.

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 Entonces Abimelec mandó a todo el pueblo, diciendo: El que tocare a este hombre, o a su mujer, muriendo morirá.

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 Y sembró Isaac en aquella tierra, y halló aquel año cien modios; y bendíjole Jehová.

Isaac planted grain in that land that year, and he harvested a very large crop, because Yahweh blessed him.

13 Y el varón se engrandeció, y fue yendo y engrandeciéndose, hasta hacerse muy grande.

Isaac continued to acquire more and more possessions, until finally he became very wealthy.

14 Y tuvo hato de ovejas, y hato de vacas, y grande apero; y los Filisteos le tuvieron envidia.

He had large herds of sheep and goats and cattle, and many slaves. Because of that, the Philistine people envied him.

15 Y todos los pozos que habían abierto los siervos de Abraham su padre en sus días, los Filisteos los habían cerrado, y henchido de tierra.

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 Y dijo Abimelec a Isaac: Apártate de nosotros; porque mucho más fuerte que nosotros te has hecho.

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 E Isaac se fue de allí; y asentó sus tiendas en el valle de Gerar, y habitó allí.

So Isaac [and his family] moved from there. They set up their tents in Gerar Valley [and started to live there].

18 Y volvió Isaac, y abrió los pozos de agua, que habían abierto en los días de Abraham su padre, y que los Filisteos habían cerrado muerto Abraham: y llamólos de los nombres que su padre los había llamado.

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 Y los siervos de Isaac cavaron en el valle, y hallaron allí un pozo de aguas vivas.

Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of fresh water.

20 Y los pastores de Gerar riñeron con los pastores de Isaac, diciendo: El agua es nuestra. Por eso llamó el nombre del pozo Esek, porque habían altercado con él.

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 Y abrieron otro pozo; y riñeron también sobre él: y llamó su nombre, Sitna.

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 Y pasóse de allí, y abrió otro pozo, y no riñeron sobre él: y llamó su nombre Rehobot, y dijo: Porque ahora nos ha hecho ensanchar Jehová, y fructificarémos en la tierra.

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 Y de allí subió a Beer-seba.

From there Isaac went up to Beersheba.

24 Y apareciósele Jehová aquella noche, y dijo: Yo soy el Dios de Abraham tu padre: no temas, que yo soy contigo; y yo te bendeciré, y multiplicaré tu simiente por causa de Abraham mi siervo.

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 Y edificó allí altar, e invocó el nombre de Jehová, y tendió allí su tienda; y abrieron allí los siervos de Isaac un pozo.

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 Y Abimelec vino a él desde Gerar, y Ocozat amigo suyo, y Ficol capitán de su ejército.

[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 Y díjoles Isaac: ¿Por qué venís a mí, pues que me habéis aborrecido, y me enviasteis que no estuviese con vosotros?

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 Y ellos respondieron: Hemos visto que Jehová es contigo; y dijimos: Haya ahora juramento entre nosotros; entre nosotros y ti: y haremos alianza 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 no nos hagas mal, como nosotros no te hemos tocado, y como solamente te hemos hecho bien, y te enviamos en paz: tú ahora, bendito de Jehová.

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 Entonces él les hizo banquete, y comieron, y bebieron.

So Isaac made a feast for them, and they all ate and drank.

31 Y madrugaron por la mañana, y juraron el uno al otro, e Isaac los envió, y partiéronse de él en 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 Y fue que en aquel día vinieron los siervos de Isaac, y diéronle nuevas de los negocios del pozo que habían abierto, y dijéronle: Agua hemos hallado.

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 Y llamóle Siba; por esta causa el nombre de aquella ciudad es Beer-seba hasta este día.

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 Y como Esaú fue de cuarenta años, tomó por mujer a Judit, hija de Beeri Jetteo, y a Basemat hija de Elón Jetteo.

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 Y fueron amargura de espíritu a Isaac, y a Rebeca.

Esau’s two wives made life miserable for Isaac and Rebekah.