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.
Genesis 26
Christian Standard Bible
The Promise Reaffirmed to Isaac
26 There was another famine in the land in addition to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time.(A) And Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar.(B) 2 The Lord appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt. Live in the land that I tell you about; 3 stay in this land as an alien, and I will be with you and bless you.(C) For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring,(D) and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.(E) 4 I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky, I will give your offspring all these lands, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed[a] by your offspring,(F) 5 because Abraham listened to me and kept my mandate, my commands, my statutes, and my instructions.”(G) 6 So Isaac settled in Gerar.
Isaac’s Deception
7 When the men of the place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,”(H) for he was afraid to say “my wife,” thinking,(I) “The men of the place will kill me on account of Rebekah, for she is a beautiful woman.”(J) 8 When Isaac had been there for some time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down from the window and was surprised to see[b] Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.
9 Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, “So she is really your wife! How could you say, ‘She is my sister’?”
Isaac answered him, “Because I thought I might die on account of her.”
10 Then Abimelech said, “What have you done to us? One of the people could easily have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us.”(K) 11 So Abimelech warned all the people, “Whoever harms this man or his wife will certainly be put to death.”
Conflicts over Wells
12 Isaac sowed seed in that land, and in that year he reaped[c] a hundred times what was sown. The Lord blessed him,(L) 13 and the man became rich and kept getting richer until he was very wealthy. 14 He had flocks of sheep, herds of cattle, and many slaves, and the Philistines were envious of him. 15 Philistines stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham,(M) filling them with dirt. 16 And Abimelech said to Isaac, “Leave us, for you are much too powerful for us.”[d]
17 So Isaac left there, camped in the Gerar Valley, and lived there. 18 Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham and that the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. He gave them the same names his father had given them. 19 Then Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found a well of spring[e] water there. 20 But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek[f] because they argued with him.(N) 21 Then they dug another well and quarreled over that one also, so he named it Sitnah.[g] 22 He moved from there and dug another, and they did not quarrel over it. He named it Rehoboth[h] and said, “For now the Lord has made space for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”
The Lord Appears to Isaac
23 From there he went up to Beer-sheba, 24 and the Lord appeared to him that night and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham.(O) Do not be afraid, for I am with you.(P) I will bless you and multiply your offspring because of my servant Abraham.”
25 So he built an altar there,(Q) called on the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent there. Isaac’s servants also dug a well there.(R)
Covenant with Abimelech
26 Now Abimelech came to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath his adviser and Phicol the commander of his army.(S) 27 Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me? You hated me and sent me away from you.”
28 They replied, “We have clearly seen how the Lord has been with you. We think there should be an oath between two parties—between us and you. Let us make a covenant with you: 29 You will not harm us, just as we have not harmed you but have done only what was good to you, sending you away in peace. You are now blessed by the Lord.”(T)
30 So he prepared a banquet for them, and they ate and drank. 31 They got up early in the morning and swore an oath to each other.[i](U) Isaac sent them on their way, and they left him in peace. 32 On that same day Isaac’s servants came to tell him about the well they had dug, saying to him, “We have found water!” (V) 33 He called it Sheba.[j] Therefore the name of the city is still Beer-sheba[k](W) today.
Esau’s Wives
34 When Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hethite, and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hethite.(X) 35 They made life bitter[l] for Isaac and Rebekah.(Y)
Footnotes
- 26:4 Or will consider themselves blessed
- 26:8 Or and he looked and behold—
- 26:12 Lit found
- 26:16 Or are more numerous than we are
- 26:19 Lit living
- 26:20 = Argument
- 26:21 = Hostility
- 26:22 = Open Spaces
- 26:31 Lit swore, each man to his brother
- 26:33 Or Shibah
- 26:33 = Well of the Oath
- 26:35 Lit And they became bitterness of spirit
Genesis 26
American Standard Version
26 And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines, unto Gerar. 2 And Jehovah 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 lands, and I will establish the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father; 4 and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these lands; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth [a]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, 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 because of her. 10 And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might easily have lain with thy wife, and thou wouldest have brought guiltiness upon us. 11 And Abimelech charged all the people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
12 And Isaac sowed in that land, and found in the same year a hundredfold: and Jehovah blessed him. 13 And the man waxed great, and grew more and more until he became very great: 14 and he had possessions of flocks, and possessions of herds, and a great household: and the Philistines envied him. 15 Now all the wells which his father’s servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth. 16 And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we. 17 And Isaac departed thence, and encamped 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 [b]springing water. 20 And the herdsmen of Gerar strove with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well [c]Esek, because they contended with him. 21 And they digged another well, and they strove for that also: and he called the name of it [d]Sitnah. 22 And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it [e]Rehoboth; and he said, For now Jehovah hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.
23 And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba. 24 And Jehovah 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 Jehovah, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac’s servants digged a well.
26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his host. 27 And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore are ye come unto me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you? 28 And they said, We saw plainly that Jehovah was with thee: and we said, Let there now be 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 Jehovah. 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 Shibah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day.
34 And when Esau was forty years old he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite: 35 and they were [f]a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
Footnotes
- Genesis 26:4 Or, bless themselves
- Genesis 26:19 Hebrew living.
- Genesis 26:20 That is, Contention.
- Genesis 26:21 That is, Enmity.
- Genesis 26:22 That is, Broad places, or, Room.
- Genesis 26:35 Hebrew bitterness of spirit.
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