1 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 Beer-sheba. 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 Beer-sheba 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.
1 orta autem fame super terram
post eam sterilitatem quae acciderat in diebus Abraham
abiit Isaac ad Abimelech regem Palestinorum in Gerara
2 apparuitque ei Dominus et ait
ne descendas in Aegyptum
sed quiesce in terra quam dixero tibi
3 et peregrinare in ea
eroque tecum et benedicam tibi
tibi enim et semini tuo dabo universas regiones has
conplens iuramentum quod spopondi Abraham patri tuo
4 et multiplicabo semen tuum sicut stellas caeli
daboque posteris tuis universas regiones has
et benedicentur in semine tuo omnes gentes terrae
5 eo quod oboedierit Abraham voci meae
et custodierit praecepta et mandata mea
et caerimonias legesque servaverit
6 mansit itaque Isaac in Geraris
7 qui cum interrogaretur a viris loci illius super uxore sua
respondit soror mea est
timuerat enim confiteri quod sibi esset sociata coniugio
reputans ne forte interficerent eum propter illius pulchritudinem
8 cumque pertransissent dies plurimi et ibi demoraretur
prospiciens Abimelech Palestinorum rex per fenestram
vidit eum iocantem cum Rebecca uxore sua
9 et accersito ait
perspicuum est quod uxor tua sit
cur mentitus es sororem tuam esse
respondit timui ne morerer propter eam
10 dixitque Abimelech quare inposuisti nobis
potuit coire quispiam de populo cum uxore tua
et induxeras super nos grande peccatum
praecepitque omni populo dicens
11 qui tetigerit hominis huius uxorem morte morietur
12 seruit autem Isaac in terra
illa
et invenit in ipso anno centuplum
benedixitque ei Dominus
13 et locupletatus est homo
et ibat proficiens atque succrescens
donec magnus vehementer effectus est
14 habuit quoque possessionem ovium et armentorum
et familiae plurimum
ob haec invidentes ei Palestini
15 omnes puteos quos foderant servi patris illius Abraham illo
tempore
obstruxerunt implentes humo
16 in tantum ut ipse Abimelech diceret ad Isaac
recede a nobis quoniam potentior nostri factus es valde
17 et ille discedens
veniret ad torrentem Gerarae habitaretque ibi
18 rursum fodit alios puteos quos foderant servi patris sui Abraham
et quos illo mortuo olim obstruxerant Philisthim
appellavitque eos hisdem nominibus quibus ante pater
vocaverat
19 foderunt in torrente et reppererunt aquam
vivam
20 sed et ibi iurgium fuit pastorum Gerarae adversum pastores Isaac
dicentium nostra est aqua
quam ob rem nomen putei ex eo quod acciderat vocavit Calumniam
21 foderunt et alium et pro illo quoque rixati
sunt
appellavitque eum Inimicitias
22 profectus inde fodit alium puteum pro quo non contenderunt
itaque vocavit nomen illius Latitudo dicens
nunc dilatavit nos Dominus et fecit crescere super terram
23 ascendit autem ex illo loco in Bersabee
24 ubi apparuit ei Dominus in ipsa nocte dicens
ego sum Deus Abraham patris tui
noli metuere quia tecum sum
benedicam tibi
et multiplicabo semen tuum propter servum meum Abraham
25 itaque aedificavit ibi altare
et invocato nomine Domini extendit tabernaculum
praecepitque servis suis ut foderent puteum
26 ad quem locum cum venissent de Geraris
Abimelech et Ochozath amicus illius et Fichol dux militum
27 locutus est eis Isaac
quid venistis ad me hominem quem odistis et expulistis a vobis
28 qui responderunt vidimus tecum esse Dominum
et idcirco nunc diximus
sit iuramentum inter nos et ineamus foedus
29 ut non facias nobis quicquam mali
sicut et nos nihil tuorum adtigimus
nec fecimus quod te laederet sed cum pace dimisimus
auctum benedictione Domini
30 fecit ergo eis convivium et post cibum et potum
31 surgentes mane iuraverunt sibi mutuo
dimisitque eos Isaac pacifice in locum suum
32 ecce autem venerunt in ipso die servi Isaac
adnuntiantes ei de puteo quem foderant
atque dicentes invenimus aquam
33 unde appellavit eum Abundantiam
et nomen urbi inpositum est Bersabee usque in praesentem diem
34 Esau vero quadragenarius duxit uxores Iudith filiam Beeri Hetthei
et Basemath filiam Helon eiusdem loci
35 quae ambae offenderant animum Isaac et Rebeccae