Genesis 26

vayehi ra'av ba'arets millevad hara'av harishon asher hayah bime avraham vayyelekh yitskhaq el-avimelekh melekh-pelishtim gerarah

There was a famine in the land—aside from the previous famine that had occurred in the days of Abraham—and Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, in Gerar.

vayyera elayw Adonai vayyomer al-tered mitsrayemah shekhon ba'arets asher omar elekha

GOD had appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; stay in the land that I point out to you.

gur ba'arets hazzot ve'ehyeh immekha va'avarekhekka ki-lekha ulezarakha etten et-kol-ha'aratsot ha'el vahaqimoti et-hashevu'ah asher nishbati le'avraham avikha

Reside in this land, and I will be with you and bless you; I will assign all these lands to you and to your heirs, fulfilling the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.

vehirbeti et-zarakha kekhokheve hashamayim venatatti lezarakha et kol-ha'aratsot ha'el vehitbarekhu vezarakha kol goye ha'arets

I will make your heirs as numerous as the stars of heaven, and assign to your heirs all these lands, so that all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves by your heirs—

eqev asher-shama avraham beqoli vayyishmor mishmarti mitsvotay khuqqotay vetorotay

inasmuch as Abraham obeyed Me and kept My charge: My commandments, My laws, and My teachings.”

vayyeshev yitskhaq bigrar

So Isaac stayed in Gerar.

vayyishalu anshe hammaqom le'ishto vayyomer akhoti hiv ki yare lemor ishti pen-yaharguni anshe hammaqom al-rivqah ki-tovat mareh hiv

When the locals asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say “my wife,” thinking, “The locals might kill me on account of Rebekah, for she is beautiful.”

vayehi ki arekhu-lo sham hayyamim vayyashqef avimelekh melekh pelishtim be'ad hakhallon vayyar vehinneh yitskhaq metsakheq et rivqah ishto

When some time had passed, Abimelech king of the Philistines, looking out of the window, saw Isaac fondling his wife Rebekah.

vayyiqra avimelekh leyitskhaq vayyomer akh hinneh ishtekha hiv ve'ekh amarta akhoti hiv vayyomer elayw yitskhaq ki amarti pen-amut aleha

Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, “So she is your wife! Why then did you say: ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac said to him, “Because I thought I might lose my life on account of her.”

vayyomer avimelekh mah-zzot asita lanu kimat shakhav akhad ha'am et-ishtekha veheveta alenu asham

Abimelech said, “What have you done to us! One of the men might have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”

vayetsav avimelekh et-kol-ha'am lemor hannogea ba'ish hazzeh uve'ishto mot yumat

Abimelech then charged all the people, saying, “Anyone who molests this man or his wife shall be put to death.”

vayyizra yitskhaq ba'arets hahiv vayyimtsa bashanah hahiv me'ah she'arim vayevarekhehu Adonai

Isaac sowed in that land and reaped a hundredfold the same year. GOD blessed him,

vayyigdal ha'ish vayyelekh halokh vegadel ad ki-gadal me'od

and the man grew richer and richer until he was very wealthy:

vayehi-lo miqneh-tson umiqneh vaqar va'avuddah rabbah vayeqanu oto pelishtim

he acquired flocks and herds, and a large household, so that the Philistines envied him.

vekhol-habbe'erot asher khaferu avde aviv bime avraham aviv sittemum pelishtim vayemalum afar

And the Philistines stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham, filling them with earth.

vayyomer avimelekh el-yitskhaq lekh me'immanu ki-atsamta mimmennu me'od

And Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you have become far too big for us.”

vayyelekh misham yitskhaq vayyikhan benakhal-gerar vayyeshev sham

So Isaac departed from there and encamped in the wadi of Gerar, where he settled.

vayyashov yitskhaq vayyakhpor et-be'erot hammayim asher khaferu bime avraham aviv vayesattemum pelishtim akhare mot avraham vayyiqra lahen shemot kashemot asher-qara lahen aviv

Isaac dug anew the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham and that the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham’s death; and he gave them the same names that his father had given them.

vayyakhperu avde-yitskhaq bannakhal vayyimtse'u-sham be'er mayim khayyim

But when Isaac’s servants, digging in the wadi, found there a well of spring water,

vayyarivu ro'e gerar im-ro'e yitskhaq lemor lanu hammayim vayyiqra shem-habbe'er eseq ki hitassequ immo

the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” He named that well Esek, because they contended with him.

vayyakhperu be'er akheret vayyarivu gam-aleha vayyiqra shemah sitnah

And when they dug another well, they disputed over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.

vayyateq misham vayyakhpor be'er akheret velo ravu aleha vayyiqra shemah rekhovot vayyomer ki-attah hirkhiv Adonai lanu ufarinu va'arets

He moved from there and dug yet another well, and they did not quarrel over it; so he called it Rehoboth, saying, “Now at last GOD has granted us ample space to increase in the land.”

vayya'al misham be'er shava

From there he went up to Beer-sheba.

vayyera elayw Adonai ballaylah hahu vayyomer anokhi elohe avraham avikha al-tira ki-ittekha anokhi uverakhtikha vehirbeti et-zarakha ba'avur avraham avdi

That night GOD appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Fear not, for I am with you, and I will bless you and increase your offspring for the sake of My servant Abraham.”

vayyiven sham mizbeakh vayyiqra beshem Adonai vayyet-sham oholo vayyikhru-sham avde-yitskhaq be'er

So he built an altar there and invoked GOD by name. Isaac pitched his tent there and his servants started digging a well.

va'avimelekh halakh elayw miggerar va'akhuzzat mere'ehu ufikhol sar-tseva'o

And Abimelech came to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his councilor and Phicol chief of his troops.

vayyomer alehem yitskhaq maddua batem elay ve'attem senetem oti vatteshallekhuni me'ittekhem

Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, seeing that you have been hostile to me and have driven me away from you?”

vayyomeru ra'o ra'inu ki-hayah Adonai immakh vannomer tehi na alah benotenu benenu uvenekha venikhretah verit immakh

And they said, “We now see plainly that GOD has been with you, and we thought: Let there be a sworn treaty between our two parties, between you and us. Let us make a pact with you

im-ta'aseh immanu ra'ah ka'asher lo nega'anukha vekha'asher asinu immekha raq-tov vanneshallekhakha beshalom attah attah berukh Adonai

that you will not do us harm, just as we have not molested you but have always dealt kindly with you and sent you away in peace. From now on, be you blessed of GOD!”

vayya'as lahem mishteh vayyokhelu vayyishtu

Then he made for them a feast, and they ate and drank.

vayyashkimu vabboqer vayyishave'u ish le'akhiv vayeshallekhem yitskhaq vayyelekhu me'itto beshalom

Early in the morning, they exchanged oaths. Isaac then bade them farewell, and they departed from him in peace.

vayehi bayyom hahu vayyavo'u avde yitskhaq vayyaggidu lo al-odot habbe'er asher khafaru vayyomeru lo matsanu mayim

That same day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water!”

vayyiqra otah shivah al-ken shem-ha'ir be'er sheva ad hayyom hazzeh

He named it Shibah; therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba to this day.

vayehi esav ben-arba'im shanah vayyiqqakh isha et-yehudit bat-be'eri hakhitti ve'et-basemat bat-elon hakhitti

When Esau was forty years old, he took to wife Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite;

vattihyena morat ruakh leyitskhaq ulerivqah

and they were a source of bitterness to Isaac and Rebekah.