Genesis 26

1 Now there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.

1 وَحَدَثَ فِي الأَرْضِ جُوعٌ غَيْرُ الْجُوعِ الأَوَّلِ الَّذِي كَانَ فِي أَيَّامِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، فَارْتَحَلَ إِسْحاقُ إِلَى مَدِينَةِ جَرَارَ حَيْثُ أَبِيمَالِكُ مَلِكُ الْفِلِسْطِينِيِّينَ.

2 The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt. Settle in the land where I tell you.

2 فَظَهَرَ لَهُ الرَّبُّ قَائِلاً: «لا تَمْضِ إِلَى مِصْرَ، بَلُ امْكُثْ فِي الأَرْضِ الَّتِي أُعَيِّنُهَا لَكَ.

3 Stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.

3 أَقِمْ فِي هَذِهِ الأَرْضِ فَأَكُونَ مَعَكَ وَأُبَارِكَكَ، لأَنَّنِي أُعْطِي لَكَ وَلِذُرِّيَّتِكَ جَمِيعَ هَذِهِ الأَرْضِ وَفَاءً بِقَسَمِي الَّذِي أَقْسَمْتُ لإِبْرَاهِيمَ أَبِيكَ.

4 I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,

4 وَأُكَثِّرُ ذُرِّيَّتَكَ كَنُجُومِ السَّمَاءِ وَأَهِبُهَا جَمِيعَ هَذِهِ الْبِلادِ. وَتَتَبَارَكُ فِي نَسْلِكَ جَمِيعُ أُمَمِ الأَرْضِ.

5 because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”

5 لأَنَّ إِبْرَاهِيمَ أَطَاعَ قَوْلِي، وَحَفِظَ أَوَامِرِي وَوَصَايَايَ وَفَرَائِضِي وَشَرَائِعِي».

6 So Isaac settled in Gerar.

6 فَأَقَامَ إِسْحاقُ فِي مَدِينَةِ جَرَارَ.

7 But when the men of that place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister.” For he was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” since he thought to himself, “The men of this place will kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is so beautiful.”

7 وَعِنْدَمَا سَأَلَهُ أَهْلُ الْمَدِينَةِ عَنْ زَوْجَتِهِ قَالَ: «هِيَ أُخْتِي» لأَنَّهُ خَافَ أَنْ يَقُولَ: «هِيَ زَوْجَتِي» لِئَلّا يَقْتُلَهُ أَهْلُ الْمَدِينَةِ مِنْ أَجْلِ رِفْقَةَ، لأَنَّهَا كَانَتْ رَائِعَةَ الْجَمَالِ.

8 When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down from the window and was surprised to see Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.

8 وَحَدَثَ بَعْدَ أَنْ طَالَ مُكُوثُهُ هُنَاكَ، أَنَّ أَبِيمَالِكَ مَلِكَ الْفِلِسْطِينِيِّينَ أَطَلَّ مِنَ النَّافِذَةِ، فَشَاهَدَ إِسْحاقَ يُدَاعِبُ امْرَأَتَهُ رِفْقَةَ.

9 Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, “So she is really your wife! How could you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac replied, “Because I thought I might die on account of her.”

9 فَاسْتَدْعَاهُ إِلَيْهِ وَقَالَ: «إِنَّهَا بِالْحَقِيقَةِ زَوْجَتُكَ، فَكَيْفَ قُلْتَ هِيَ أُخْتِي؟» فَأَجَابَ إِسْحاقُ: «لأَنِّي قُلْتُ: لَعَلِّي أُقْتَلُ بِسَبَبِهَا».

10 “What is this you have done to us?” asked Abimelech. “One of the people could easily have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”

10 فَقَالَ أَبِيمَالِكُ: «مَا هَذَا الَّذِي فَعَلْتَ بِنَا؟ لَقَدْ كَانَ يَسِيراً عَلَى أَيِّ وَاحِدٍ مِنَ الشَّعْبِ أَنْ يَضْطَجِعَ مَعَ زَوْجَتِكَ فَتَجْلِبُ بِذَلِكَ عَلَيْنَا إِثْماً».

11 So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, “Whoever harms this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”

11 وَأَنْذَرَ أَبِيمَالِكُ كُلَّ الشَّعْبِ قَائِلاً: «كُلُّ مَنْ يَمَسُّ هَذَا الرَّجُلَ أَوْ زَوْجَتَهُ فَحَتْماً يَمُوتُ».

12 Now Isaac sowed seed in the land, and that very year he reaped a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him,

12 وَزَرَعَ إِسْحاقُ فِي تِلْكَ الأَرْضِ، فَحَصَدَ فِي تِلْكَ السَّنَةِ مِئَةَ ضِعْفٍ لأَنَّ اللهَ بَارَكَهُ.

13 and he became richer and richer, until he was exceedingly wealthy.

13 وَعَظُمَ شَأْنُ الرَّجُلِ، وَتَزَايَدَ غِنَاهُ وَأَصْبَحَ وَاسِعَ الثَّرَاءِ وَالنُّفُوذِ.

14 He owned so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him.

14 وَصَارَتْ لَهُ مَاشِيَةٌ، غَنَمٌ وَقُطْعَانُ بَقَرٍ وَعَبِيدٌ كَثِيرُونَ. فَحَسَدَهُ الْفِلِسْطِينِيُّونَ.

15 So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.

15 وَرَدَمَ الْفِلِسْطِينِيُّونَ بِالتُّرَابِ جَمِيعَ الآبَارِ الَّتِي حَفَرَهَا عَبِيدُ أَبِيهِ فِي أَيَّامِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ.

16 Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Depart from us, for you are much too powerful for us.”

16 وَقَالَ أَبِيمَالِكُ لإِسْحاقَ: «ارْحَلْ عَنَّا لأَنَّكَ أَصْبَحْتَ أَكْثَرَ قُوَّةً مِنَّا».

17 So Isaac left that place and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there.

17 فَانْصَرَفَ إِسْحاقُ مِنْ هُنَاكَ وَضَرَبَ خِيَامَهُ فِي وَادِي جَرَارَ حَيْثُ أَقَامَ.

18 Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. And he gave these wells the same names his father had given them.

18 وَأَعَادَ إِسْحاقُ حَفْرَ آبَارِ الْمِيَاهِ الَّتِي كَانَ قَدْ تَمَّ حَفْرُهَا فِي أَيَّامِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَرَدَمَهَا الْفِلِسْطِينِيُّونَ بَعْدَ مَوْتِ أَبِيهِ، وَدَعَاهَا بِالأَسْمَاءِ الَّتِي أَطْلَقَهَا عَلَيْهَا أَبُوهُ.

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

19 وَعِنْدَمَا حَفَرَ عَبِيدُ إِسْحاقَ فِي الْوَادِي وَعَثَرُوا عَلَى بِئْرِ مَاءٍ جَارٍ،

20 But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek, because they contended with him.

20 خَاصَمَ رُعَاةُ مَدِينَةِ جَرَارَ رُعَاةَ إِسْحاقَ قَائِلِينَ: «هَذَا الْمَاءُ لَنَا». فَدَعَا الْبِئْرَ «عِسِقَ» لأَنَّهُمْ نَازَعُوهُ عَلَيْهَا.

21 Then they dug another well and quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.

21 ثُمَّ حَفَرُوا بِئْراً أُخْرَى وَتَخَاصَمُوا عَلَيْهَا، فَدَعَاهَا «سِطْنَةَ» (وَمَعْنَاهَا عَدَاوَةٌ).

22 He moved on from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. He named it Rehoboth and said, “At last the LORD has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”

22 وَانْتَقَلَ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ مِنْ هُنَاكَ وَحَفَرَ بِئْراً أُخْرَى وَلَمْ يَتَنَازَعُوا عَلَيْهَا، فَدَعَا اسْمَهَا «رَحُوبُوتَ» (وَمَعْنَاهَا الأَمَاكِنُ الرَّحْبَةُ) قَائِلاً: «لأَنَّ الرَّبَّ قَدْ أَرْحَبَ الآنَ لَنَا وَأَثْمَرْنَا فِي الأَرْضِ».

23 From there Isaac went up to Beersheba,

23 ثُمَّ مَضَى مِنْ هُنَاكَ إِلَى بِئْرِ سَبْعٍ.

24 and that night the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of My servant Abraham.”

24 فَتَجَلَّى لَهُ الرَّبُّ فِي تِلْكَ اللَّيْلَةِ وَقَالَ: «أَنَا هُوَ إِلَهُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ أَبِيكَ. لَا تَخَفْ لأَنِّي مَعَكَ وَأُبَارِكُكَ وَأُكَثِّرُ ذُرِّيَّتَكَ مِنْ أَجْلِ عَبْدِي إِبْرَاهِيمَ».

25 So Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD, and he pitched his tent there. His servants also dug a well there.

25 فَشَيَّدَ إِسْحاقُ هُنَاكَ مَذْبَحاً وَدَعَا بِاسْمِ الرَّبِّ، ثُمَّ نَصَبَ هُنَاكَ خَيْمَتَهُ، وَحَفَرَ عَبِيدُهُ بِئْراً.

26 Later, Abimelech came to Isaac from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his adviser and Phicol the commander of his army.

26 وَأَقْبَلَ عَلَيْهِ مِنْ مَدِينَةِ جَرَارَ أَبِيمَالِكُ وَأَحُزَّاتُ مُسْتَشَارُهُ، وَفِيكُولُ رَئِيسُ جَيْشِهِ.

27 “Why have you come to me?” Isaac asked them. “You hated me and sent me away.”

27 فَقَالَ لَهُمْ إِسْحاقُ: «مَا بَالُكُمْ قَدْ أَتَيْتُمْ إِلَيَّ، وَأَنْتُمْ قَدْ أَبْغَضْتُمُونِي وَصَرَفْتُمُونِي مِنْ عِنْدِكُمْ؟»

28 “We can plainly see that the LORD has been with you,” they replied. “We recommend that there should now be an oath between us and you. Let us make a covenant with you

28 فَأَجَابُوهُ: «لَقَدْ تَبَيَّنَ لَنَا أَنَّ الرَّبَّ مَعَكَ، فَقُلْنَا: لِيَكُنْ بَيْنَنَا حَلْفٌ وَلْنَقْطَعْ مَعَكَ عَهْداً:

29 that you will not harm us, just as we have not harmed you but have done only good to you, sending you on your way in peace. And now you are blessed by the LORD.”

29 أَنْ لَا تُسِيءَ إِلَيْنَا كَمَا لَمْ نَمَسَّكَ بِشَرٍّ وَلَمْ يُصِبْكَ مِنَّا سِوَى الْخَيْرِ، ثُمَّ صَرَفْنَاكَ بِسَلامٍ. وَهَا أَنْتَ الآنَ مُبَارَكٌ مِنَ الرَّبِّ».

30 So Isaac prepared a feast for them, and they ate and drank.

30 فَأَقَامَ لَهُمْ مَأْدُبَةً فَأَكَلُوا وَشَرِبُوا.

31 And they got up early the next morning and swore an oath to each other. Then Isaac sent them on their way, and they left him in peace.

31 ثُمَّ بَكَّرُوا فِي الصَّبَاحِ وَحَلَفَ بَعْضُهُمْ لِبَعْضٍ، وَشَيَّعَهُمْ إِسْحاقُ فَانْصَرَفُوا بِسَلامٍ.

32 On that same day, Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. “We have found water!” they told him.

32 وَفِي نَفْسِ ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمِ جَاءَ عَبِيدُ إِسْحاقَ وَأَخْبَرُوهُ قَائِلِينَ: «إِنَّنَا عَثَرْنَا عَلَى مَاءٍ فِي الْبِئْرِ الَّتِي حَفَرْنَاهَا».

33 So he called it Shibah, and to this day the name of the city is Beersheba.

33 فَدَعَاهَا شِبْعَةَ، لِذَلِكَ سُمِّيَتِ الْمَدِينَةُ بِئْرَ سَبْعٍ إِلَى هَذَا الْيَوْمِ.

34 When Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.

34 وَلَمَّا بَلَغَ عِيسُو الأَرْبَعِينَ مِنْ عُمْرِهِ تَزَوَّجَ كُلًّا مِنْ يَهُودِيتَ بِنْتِ بِيرِي الْحِثِّيِّ، وَبَسْمَةَ بِنْتِ إِيلُونَ الْحِثِّيِّ.

35 And they brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

35 فَأَتْعَسَتَا حَيَاةَ إِسْحاقَ وَرِفْقَةَ.