Genesis 26
English Standard Version
God's Promise to Isaac
26 Now there was a famine in the land, besides (A)the former famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar to (B)Abimelech king of the (C)Philistines. 2 And the Lord appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; dwell (D)in the land of which I shall tell you. 3 (E)Sojourn in this land, and (F)I will be with you and will bless you, for (G)to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will establish (H)the oath that I swore to Abraham your father. 4 (I)I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And (J)in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, 5 because (K)Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”
Isaac and Abimelech
6 So Isaac settled in Gerar. 7 When the men of the place asked him about his wife, (L)he said, “She is my sister,” for (M)he feared to say, “My wife,” thinking, “lest the men of the place should kill me because of Rebekah,” because (N)she was attractive in appearance. 8 When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out of a window and saw Isaac laughing with[a] Rebekah his wife. 9 So Abimelech called Isaac and said, “Behold, she is your wife. How then could you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac said to him, “Because I thought, ‘Lest I die because of her.’” 10 Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and (O)you would have brought guilt upon us.” 11 So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, “Whoever touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.”
12 And Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. The Lord (P)blessed him, 13 and the man became rich, and gained more and more until he became very wealthy. 14 He had possessions of flocks and herds and many servants, so that the Philistines (Q)envied him. 15 (Now the Philistines had stopped and filled with earth all the wells (R)that his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father.) 16 And Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.”
17 So Isaac departed from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there. 18 And Isaac dug again the wells of water that had been dug in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines had stopped after the death of Abraham. And (S)he gave them the names that his father had given them. 19 But when Isaac's servants dug in the valley and found there a well of spring water, 20 the herdsmen of Gerar (T)quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” So he called the name of the well Esek,[b] because they contended with him. 21 Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that also, so he called its name Sitnah.[c] 22 And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. So he called its name Rehoboth,[d] saying, “For now the Lord has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.”
23 From there he went up to Beersheba. 24 And the Lord appeared to him the same night and said, (U)“I am the God of Abraham your father. (V)Fear not, for (W)I am with you and will bless you and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham's sake.” 25 So he (X)built an altar there and called upon the name of the Lord and pitched his tent there. And there Isaac's servants dug a well.
26 When Abimelech went to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath his adviser and (Y)Phicol the commander of his army, 27 Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, seeing that you hate me and (Z)have sent me away from you?” 28 They said, “We see plainly that the Lord has been with you. So we said, let there be a sworn pact between us, between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you, 29 that you will do us no harm, just as we have not touched you and have done to you nothing but good and have sent you away in peace. (AA)You are now the blessed of the Lord.” 30 So he made them a feast, and they ate and drank. 31 In the morning they rose early and (AB)exchanged oaths. And Isaac sent them on their way, and they departed from him in peace. 32 That same day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well that they had dug and said to him, “We have found water.” 33 He called it Shibah;[e] therefore the name of the city is (AC)Beersheba to this day.
34 When Esau was forty years old, he took (AD)Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite to be his wife, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite, 35 and (AE)they made life bitter[f] for Isaac and Rebekah.
Footnotes
- Genesis 26:8 Hebrew may suggest an intimate relationship
- Genesis 26:20 Esek means contention
- Genesis 26:21 Sitnah means enmity
- Genesis 26:22 Rehoboth means broad places, or room
- Genesis 26:33 Shibah sounds like the Hebrew for oath
- Genesis 26:35 Hebrew they were bitterness of spirit
Genesis 26
King James Version
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.
2 And the Lord appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:
3 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;
4 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;
5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
6 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:
7 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.
8 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.
9 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.
Genesis 26
Ang Pulong Sang Dios
Nag-estar si Isaac sa Gerar
26 May gutom nga nag-abot sa lugar nga ginaestaran ni Isaac, wala labot sadtong gutom nga nag-abot sang panahon pa ni Abraham. Gani nagkadto si Isaac kay Abimelec nga hari sang mga Filistinhon sa Gerar. 2 Nagpakita ang Ginoo sa iya kag nagsiling, “Indi ka magkadto sa Egipto; magpabilin ka sa lugar nga itudlo ko sa imo. 3 Diri ka lang anay mag-estar kay pagaupdan ko ikaw kag pakamaayuhon. Ihatag ko sa imo kag sa imo mga kaliwat ini tanan nga duta. Tumanon ko ang akon ginpromisa sa imo amay nga si Abraham. 4 Padamuon ko ang imo mga kaliwat pareho sa kadamuon sang mga bituon sa langit, kag ihatag ko sa ila ini tanan nga duta. Kag paagi sa ila, pakamaayuhon ko ang tanan nga katawhan sa kalibutan. 5 Himuon ko ini tungod kay nagtuman si Abraham sa akon. Nagtuman siya sa tanan ko nga kasuguan kag pagpanudlo.” 6 Gani didto nag-estar si Isaac sa Gerar.
7 Matahom si Rebeka, gani kon magpamangkot ang mga taga-Gerar sa kay Isaac parte sa iya asawa ginasabat niya nga utod niya si Rebeka. Nahadlok siya magsiling nga asawa niya kay basi kon patyon nila siya agod makuha si Rebeka. 8 Madugay-dugay na ang pagtiner nila ni Isaac didto sa Gerar. Kag isa sina ka adlaw, natabuan nga nagpamintana si Abimelec nga hari sang mga Filistinhon kag nakita niya nga nagaanggaanay si Isaac kag Rebeka. 9 Gani ginpatawag niya si Isaac kag ginsilingan, “Asawa mo gali siya? Ngaa nagsiling ka nga utod mo siya?” Nagsabat si Isaac, “Nahadlok abi ako nga basi patyon ninyo ako tungod sa iya.” 10 Nagsiling si Abimelec, “Indi maayo ang ginhimo mo sa amon. Kon natabo abi nga ang isa sa akon mga tinawo naghulid sa iya, ikaw kuntani ang kabangdanan sang amon pagpakasala.” 11 Ginpaandaman dayon ni Abimelec ang tanan nga tawo. Siling niya, “Ang bisan sin-o nga maghimo sang malain sa sini nga lalaki ukon sa iya asawa pagapatyon gid.”
12 Nagpananom si Isaac sa sadto nga lugar kag nakapatubas siya sing 100 ka pilo sa sina mismo nga tuig, tungod kay ginpakamaayo siya sang Ginoo. 13 Nagpadayon ang iya pag-uswag hasta nga nagmanggaranon na gid siya katama. 14 Nahisa sa iya ang mga Filistinhon tungod kay madamo na ang iya mga karnero, kanding, baka, kag mga suluguon. 15 Sa ila kahisa kay Isaac, ginpangtampukan nila sang duta ang mga bubon nga ginpangkutkot sadto sang mga suluguon sang iya amay nga si Abraham.
16 Karon, nagsiling si Abimelec kay Isaac, “Halin ka na diri, kay madamo na kamo katama para sa amon.” 17 Gani naghalin si Isaac, kag nagpatindog siya sang iya tolda sa Gerar nga ililigan sang tubig,[a] kag didto na nag-estar. 18 Ginpakutkutan niya liwat ang mga bubon sang iya amay nga si Abraham nga gintabunan sang mga Filistinhon pagkatapos nga napatay si Abraham. Gin-ngalanan ni Isaac ang mga bubon sang amo man gihapon nga ngalan nga ginhatag sadto anay ni Abraham.
19 Didto sa hubas nga ililigan sang tubig, nagkutkot sang bag-o nga bubon ang mga suluguon ni Isaac kag nakasapo sila sang tuburan. 20 Pero ginbais sang mga bakiro nga taga-Gerar ang mga bakiro ni Isaac nga ila kuno atong bubon. Gani gin-ngalanan ni Isaac ang bubon nga Esek,[b] tungod kay nagpakigbais ang mga taga-Gerar sa iya.
21 Nagkutkot liwat ang mga suluguon ni Isaac sang lain nga bubon, pero ginlalisan man nila ini gihapon sang mga taga-Gerar. Gani gin-ngalanan ni Isaac ang bubon nga Sitna.[c] 22 Naghalin sila ni Isaac didto kag nagkutkot liwat sang lain pa gid nga bubon. Wala na nila ini paglalisi, gani gin-ngalanan ini ni Isaac nga Rehobot.[d] Kay siling niya, “Karon ginhatagan kita sang Ginoo sang malapad nga lugar agod magdamo pa gid kita diri.”
23 Sang ulihi naghalin si Isaac sa sadto nga lugar kag nagkadto sa Beersheba. 24 Sadto gid nga gab-i sang pag-abot niya, nagpakita ang Ginoo sa iya kag nagsiling, “Ako ang Dios sang imo amay nga si Abraham. Indi ka magkahadlok kay kaupod mo ako. Pakamaayuhon ko ikaw kag hatagan sang madamo nga mga kaliwat tungod kay Abraham nga akon alagad.” 25 Gani naghimo si Isaac sang halaran kag nagsimba sa Ginoo. Nagpatindog siya sang tolda sa sadto nga lugar kag nagpakutkot sang bubon sa iya mga suluguon.
Ang Kasugtanan ni Isaac kag ni Abimelec
26 Nagkadto si Abimelec kay Isaac halin sa Gerar kaupod si Ahuzat nga iya manuglaygay kag si Ficol nga pangulo sang iya mga soldado. 27 Nagpamangkot si Isaac sa ila, “Ngaa nagkadto kamo sa akon? Indi bala nga akig kamo sa akon, kag amo gani nga ginpahalin ninyo ako sa inyo lugar?” 28 Nagsabat sila, “Nareyalisar namon nga ang Ginoo kaupod mo, gani naghunahuna kami nga dapat maghimo kita sang kasugtanan nga may panumpa. Ipromisa mo sa amon 29 nga indi mo kami pag-anhon, tungod kay wala ka man namon pag-anha sang didto ka pa sa amon. Gintratar ka namon sing maayo kag ginpahalin nga maayo ang aton relasyon. Karon, kabay pa nga pakamaayuhon ka pa gid sang Ginoo.” 30 Gani nagpapunsyon si Isaac para sa ila kag nagkinaon sila kag nag-ininom.
31 Aga pa gid sang madason nga adlaw, nagpanumpa sila sa isa kag isa. Dayon ginpalakat sila ni Isaac nga maayo ang ila relasyon.
32 Sadto man nga adlaw, nag-abot ang mga suluguon ni Isaac kag nagsugid sa iya nga may tubig ang bubon nga ila ginkutkot. 33 Gin-ngalanan ni Isaac ato nga bubon nga Shiba. Gani hasta subong ang ato nga lugar ginatawag nga Beersheba.[e]
Nangasawa si Esau sang Indi Nila Kalahi
34 Sang nagaedad na si Esau sang 40 ka tuig, nagpangasawa siya kay Judit nga anak ni Beeri nga Hithanon. Ginpangasawa pa gid niya si Basemat nga anak ni Elon nga Hithanon man. 35 Ining duha ka babayi nakapasubo gid sa kay Isaac kag kay Rebeka.
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