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26 And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Therefore, Isaac went to Abimelech, King of the Philistines, to Gerar.

For the LORD appeared to him, and said, “Do not go down into Egypt. Remain in the land which I shall show you.

“Dwell in this land; and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and to your seed I will give all these countries. And I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham, your father.

“Also, I will cause your seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give to your seed all these countries. And in your seed shall all the nations of the Earth be blessed;

because Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My Ordinance, My Commandments, My Statutes, and My Laws.”

So Isaac dwelt in Gerar.

And the men of the place asked him of his wife. And he said, “She is my sister.” For he feared to say, ‘She is my wife’, “Lest,” said he, “the men of the place should kill me because of Rebekah” (for she was beautiful to the eye).

So, after he had been there a long time, Abimelech, King of the Philistines, looked out a window. And lo, he saw Isaac, flirting with Rebekah, his wife.

Then Abimelech called Isaac, and said, “Lo, she is certainly your wife. And why did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” To which Isaac answered, “Because I thought ‘It may be that I shall die for her.’”

10 Then Abimelech said, “Why have you done this to us? One of the people had almost lain with your wife. So would you have brought sin upon us.”

11 Then Abimelech charged all his people, saying, “He who touches this man, or his wife, shall die the death.”

12 Afterward, Isaac sowed in that land and found in the same year a hundredfold by estimation. And so, the LORD blessed him.

13 And the man grew mightily and continued to increase, until he was exceedingly great.

14 For he had flocks of sheep, and herds of cattle, and a mighty household. Therefore, the Philistines envied him,

15 insomuch that the Philistines stopped and filled with earth all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in his father Abraham’s time.

16 Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Get away from us. For you are a great deal mightier than we.”

17 Therefore, Isaac departed from there and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar and dwelt there.

18 And Isaac, returning, dug 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. And he gave them the same names that his father had given them.

19 Isaac’s servants then dug in the valley and found there a well of living water.

20 But the herdsmen of Gerar strove with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” Therefore, he called the name of the well “Esek”, because they strove with him.

21 Afterward, they dug another well, and strove for that also; and he called the name of it “Sitnah”.

22 Then he left there and dug another well for which they did not strive. Therefore, he called the name of it “Rehoboth”, and said, “Because the LORD has now made us room, we shall increase upon the Earth.”

23 So he went up from there to Beersheba.

24 And the LORD appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the God of Abraham, your father. Do not fear. I am with you and will bless you and multiply your seed for My servant, Abraham’s, sake.”

25 Then he built an altar there and called upon the Name of the LORD and spread his tent there (where also Isaac’s servants had dug a well).

26 Then Abimelech came to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath (one of his friends), and Phichol, the captain of his army.

27 To whom Isaac said, “Why do you come to me, seeing you hate me and have put me away from you?”

28 Who answered, “We saw that the LORD was certainly with you; and we thought, ‘Let there now be an oath between us — between us and you — and let us make a covenant with you,

29 ‘that you shall do us no harm (as we have not touched you and as we have done nothing but good to you and sent you away in peace).’ You, now, are the blessed of the LORD.”

30 Then he made them a feast; and they ate and drank.

31 And they rose up early in the morning and swore, one to another. Then Isaac let them go. And they departed from him in peace.

32 And that same day, Isaac’s servants came and told him of a well which they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.”

33 So he called it “Shebah”. Therefore, the name of the city is called “Beersheba” to this day.

34 Now when Esau was forty years old, he took Judith for his wife (the daughter of Beeri, a Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon, a Hittite).

35 And they were a grief of mind to Isaac and to Rebekah.

Isaque mente para Abimeleque

26 Uma fome terrível atingiu a região, como havia acontecido antes no tempo de Abraão. Por isso, Isaque se mudou para Gerar, onde vivia Abimeleque, rei dos filisteus.

O Senhor apareceu a Isaque e disse: “Não desça ao Egito. Faça o que eu mandar. Habite aqui como estrangeiro, e eu estarei com você e o abençoarei. Com isso, confirmo que darei todas estas terras a você e a seus descendentes, conforme prometi solenemente a Abraão, seu pai. Farei que seus descendentes sejam tão numerosos quanto as estrelas do céu e darei a eles todas estas terras. Por meio de sua descendência, todas as nações da terra serão abençoadas. Farei isso porque Abraão me deu ouvidos e obedeceu ao que lhe ordenei: meus mandamentos, decretos e instruções”. Portanto, Isaque ficou em Gerar.

Quando os homens que viviam na região perguntaram a Isaque sobre Rebeca, sua mulher, ele disse: “É minha irmã”. Teve medo de dizer “É minha mulher”, pois pensou: “Ela é tão bonita que os homens vão me matar por causa dela”. Algum tempo depois, porém, Abimeleque, rei dos filisteus, olhou pela janela e viu Isaque acariciar Rebeca.

No mesmo instante, Abimeleque mandou chamar Isaque e exclamou: “É evidente que ela é sua mulher! Por que você disse que era sua irmã?”.

“Porque tive medo que alguém me matasse por causa dela”, respondeu Isaque.

10 “Como você pôde fazer uma coisa dessas conosco?”, exclamou Abimeleque. “Um dos meus homens poderia ter tomado sua mulher e dormido com ela e, por sua causa, seríamos culpados de grande pecado!”

11 Então Abimeleque declarou a todo o povo: “Quem tocar neste homem ou em sua mulher será executado!”.

Conflito pelo uso da água

12 Naquele ano, quando Isaque plantou lavouras, colheu cem vezes mais cereais do que havia semeado, pois o Senhor o abençoou. 13 Isaque prosperou e se tornou rico e influente. 14 Adquiriu tantos rebanhos de ovelhas e bois e tantos servos que os filisteus o invejaram. 15 Por isso, os filisteus fecharam com terra todos os poços de Isaque, que tinham sido cavados pelos servos de seu pai, Abraão.

16 Por fim, Abimeleque ordenou que Isaque deixasse aquela terra. “Vá para outro lugar”, disse ele. “Você se tornou poderoso demais para nós.”

17 Então Isaque partiu de onde estava e se estabeleceu no vale de Gerar, onde armou suas tendas. 18 Reabriu os poços que seu pai havia cavado e que os filisteus haviam fechado depois da morte de Abraão e lhes deu os mesmos nomes que Abraão tinha dado.

19 Os servos de Isaque também cavaram no vale de Gerar e encontraram uma fonte de água corrente. 20 Contudo, os pastores de Gerar entraram em conflito com os pastores de Isaque. “Esta água é nossa!”, diziam eles. Por isso, Isaque chamou o poço de Eseque.[a] 21 Em seguida, os homens de Isaque cavaram outro poço, mas, novamente, houve conflito por causa dele. Por isso, Isaque o chamou de Sitna.[b] 22 Isaque abandonou esse poço e mandou cavar outro mais adiante. Dessa vez, ninguém discutiu por causa dele, de modo que Isaque o chamou de Reobote,[c] pois disse: “Finalmente o Senhor criou espaço suficiente para prosperarmos nesta terra!”.

23 Dali, Isaque se mudou para Berseba, 24 onde o Senhor lhe apareceu na noite de sua chegada e disse: “Eu sou o Deus de seu pai, Abraão. Não tenha medo, pois estou com você e o abençoarei. Multiplicarei seus descendentes, e eles se tornarão uma grande nação. Farei isso por causa da minha promessa ao meu servo, Abraão”. 25 Isaque construiu ali um altar e invocou o nome do Senhor. Armou acampamento naquele local, e seus servos cavaram outro poço.

A aliança de Isaque com Abimeleque

26 Certo dia, o rei Abimeleque veio de Gerar com Auzate, seu conselheiro, e com Ficol, comandante do seu exército. 27 “Por que vocês vieram?”, perguntou Isaque. “É evidente que me odeiam, já que me expulsaram de sua terra.”

28 Eles responderam: “Podemos ver claramente que o Senhor está com você. Por isso, queremos fazer com você um acordo sob juramento, uma aliança. 29 Jure que não nos fará mal, assim como nós nunca lhe fizemos mal. Sempre o tratamos bem e o despedimos em paz. E agora, veja como o Senhor o abençoou!”.

30 Então Isaque lhes preparou um banquete, e eles comeram e beberam juntos. 31 Logo cedo, na manhã seguinte, cada um fez o juramento solene de não interferir com o outro. Isaque se despediu deles, e partiram em paz.

32 Naquele mesmo dia, os servos de Isaque vieram lhe falar de um novo poço que tinham cavado. “Encontramos água!”, exclamaram. 33 Por isso, Isaque chamou o poço de Seba.[d] E, até hoje, a cidade que se formou ali é conhecida como Berseba.[e]

34 Quando Esaú tinha 40 anos, casou-se com duas mulheres hititas: Judite, filha de Beeri, e Basemate, filha de Elom. 35 Essas duas mulheres causaram grande desgosto a Isaque e Rebeca.

Footnotes

  1. 26.20 Eseque significa “discussão”.
  2. 26.21 Sitna significa “hostilidade”.
  3. 26.22 Reobote significa “lugar espaçoso”.
  4. 26.33a Seba significa “juramento”.
  5. 26.33b Berseba significa “poço do juramento”.

Isaac and Abimelek(A)

26 Now there was a famine in the land(B)—besides the previous famine in Abraham’s time—and Isaac went to Abimelek king of the Philistines(C) in Gerar.(D) The Lord appeared(E) to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt;(F) live in the land where I tell you to live.(G) Stay in this land for a while,(H) and I will be with you(I) and will bless you.(J) For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands(K) and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham.(L) I will make your descendants(M) as numerous as the stars in the sky(N) and will give them all these lands,(O) and through your offspring[a] all nations on earth will be blessed,[b](P) because Abraham obeyed me(Q) and did everything I required of him, keeping my commands, my decrees(R) and my instructions.(S) So Isaac stayed in Gerar.(T)

When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,(U)” because he was afraid to say, “She is my wife.” He thought, “The men of this place might kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is beautiful.”

When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelek king of the Philistines(V) looked down from a window and saw Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah. So Abimelek summoned Isaac and said, “She is really your wife! Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’?(W)

Isaac answered him, “Because I thought I might lose my life on account of her.”

10 Then Abimelek said, “What is this you have done to us?(X) One of the men might well have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”

11 So Abimelek gave orders to all the people: “Anyone who harms(Y) this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.”(Z)

12 Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a hundredfold,(AA) because the Lord blessed him.(AB) 13 The man became rich, and his wealth continued to grow until he became very wealthy.(AC) 14 He had so many flocks and herds and servants(AD) that the Philistines envied him.(AE) 15 So all the wells(AF) that his father’s servants had dug in the time of his father Abraham, the Philistines stopped up,(AG) filling them with earth.

16 Then Abimelek said to Isaac, “Move away from us;(AH) you have become too powerful for us.(AI)

17 So Isaac moved away from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar,(AJ) where he settled. 18 Isaac reopened the wells(AK) that had been dug in the time of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died, and he gave them the same names his father had given them.

19 Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of fresh water there. 20 But the herders of Gerar quarreled(AL) with those of Isaac and said, “The water is ours!”(AM) So he named the well Esek,[c] because they disputed with him. 21 Then they dug another well, but they quarreled(AN) over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.[d] 22 He moved on from there and dug another well, and no one quarreled over it. He named it Rehoboth,[e](AO) saying, “Now the Lord has given us room(AP) and we will flourish(AQ) in the land.”

23 From there he went up to Beersheba.(AR) 24 That night the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham.(AS) Do not be afraid,(AT) for I am with you;(AU) I will bless you and will increase the number of your descendants(AV) for the sake of my servant Abraham.”(AW)

25 Isaac built an altar(AX) there and called on the name of the Lord.(AY) There he pitched his tent, and there his servants dug a well.(AZ)

26 Meanwhile, Abimelek had come to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his personal adviser and Phicol the commander of his forces.(BA) 27 Isaac asked them, “Why have you come to me, since you were hostile to me and sent me away?(BB)

28 They answered, “We saw clearly that the Lord was with you;(BC) so we said, ‘There ought to be a sworn agreement between us’—between us and you. Let us make a treaty(BD) with you 29 that you will do us no harm,(BE) just as we did not harm you but always treated you well and sent you away peacefully. And now you are blessed by the Lord.”(BF)

30 Isaac then made a feast(BG) for them, and they ate and drank. 31 Early the next morning the men swore an oath(BH) to each other. Then Isaac sent them on their way, and they went away peacefully.

32 That day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well(BI) they had dug. They said, “We’ve found water!” 33 He called it Shibah,[f] and to this day the name of the town has been Beersheba.[g](BJ)

Jacob Takes Esau’s Blessing

34 When Esau was forty years old,(BK) he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and also Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.(BL) 35 They were a source of grief to Isaac and Rebekah.(BM)

Footnotes

  1. Genesis 26:4 Or seed
  2. Genesis 26:4 Or and all nations on earth will use the name of your offspring in blessings (see 48:20)
  3. Genesis 26:20 Esek means dispute.
  4. Genesis 26:21 Sitnah means opposition.
  5. Genesis 26:22 Rehoboth means room.
  6. Genesis 26:33 Shibah can mean oath or seven.
  7. Genesis 26:33 Beersheba can mean well of the oath and well of seven.

26 And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.

And the Lord appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:

Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;

And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;

Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:

And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.

And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.

And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife; and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.

10 And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.

11 And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.

12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him.

13 And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:

14 For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.

15 For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.

16 And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.

17 And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.

18 And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.

19 And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.

20 And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.

21 And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.

22 And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the Lord hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.

23 And he went up from thence to Beersheba.

24 And the Lord appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.

25 And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a well.

26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.

27 And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?

28 And they said, We saw certainly that the Lord was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;

29 That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the Lord.

30 And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.

31 And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

32 And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.

33 And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day.

34 And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:

35 Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.