Genesis 26

1 And there is a famine in the land, besides the first famine which was in the days of Abraham, and Isaac goes to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

在亞伯拉罕的日子，那地有一次饑荒；這時又有饑荒，以撒就往基拉耳去，到非利士人的王亞比米勒那裏。

2 And YHWH appears to him and says, “Do not go down toward Egypt, dwell in the land concerning which I speak to you,

耶和華向以撒顯現，說：「你不要下埃及去，要住在我所指示你的地。

3 sojourn in this land, and I am with you, and bless you, for to you and to your seed I give all these lands, and I have established the oath which I have sworn to your father Abraham;

你寄居在這地，我必與你同在，賜福給你，因為我要將這些地都賜給你和你的後裔。我必堅定我向你父亞伯拉罕所起的誓。

4 and I have multiplied your seed as stars of the heavens, and I have given to your seed all these lands; and all nations of the earth have blessed themselves in your Seed;

我要加增你的後裔，像天上的星那樣多，又要將這些地都賜給你的後裔。並且地上萬國必因你的後裔得福－

5 because that Abraham has listened to My voice, and keeps My charge, My commands, My statutes, and My laws.”

都因亞伯拉罕聽從我的話，遵守我的吩咐和我的命令、律例、法度。」

6 And Isaac dwells in Gerar;

以撒就住在基拉耳。

7 and men of the place ask him of his wife, and he says, “She [is] my sister”: for he has been afraid to say, “My wife—lest the men of the place kill me for Rebekah, for she [is] of good appearance.”

那地方的人問到他的妻子，他便說：「那是我的妹子。」原來他怕說：「是我的妻子」；他心裏想：「恐怕這地方的人為利百加的緣故殺我」，因為她容貌俊美。

8 And it comes to pass, when the days have been prolonged to him there, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looks through the window, and sees, and behold, Isaac is playing with his wife Rebekah.

他在那裏住了許久。有一天，非利士人的王亞比米勒從窗戶裏往外觀看，見以撒和他的妻子利百加戲玩。

9 And Abimelech calls for Isaac and says, “Behold, she [is] surely your wife; and how could you have said, She [is] my sister?” And Isaac says to him, “Because I said, Lest I die for her.”

亞比米勒召了以撒來，對他說：「她實在是你的妻子，你怎麼說她是你的妹子？」以撒說：「我心裏想，恐怕我因她而死。」

10 And Abimelech says, “What [is] this you have done to us? As a little thing one of the people had lain with your wife, and you had brought on us guilt”;

亞比米勒說：「你向我們做的是甚麼事呢？民中險些有人和你的妻同寢，把我們陷在罪裏。」

11 and Abimelech commands all the people, saying, “He who comes against this man or against his wife, dying does die.”

於是亞比米勒曉諭眾民說：「凡沾着這個人，或是他妻子的，定要把他治死。」

12 And Isaac sows in that land, and finds in that year a hundredfold, and YHWH blesses him;

以撒在那地耕種，那一年有百倍的收成。耶和華賜福給他，

13 and the man is great, and goes on, going on and becoming great, until he has been very great,

他就昌大，日增月盛，成了大富戶。

14 and he has possession of a flock, and possession of a herd, and an abundant service; and the Philistines envy him,

他有羊群牛群，又有許多僕人，非利士人就嫉妒他。

15 and all the wells which his father’s servants dug in the days of his father Abraham, the Philistines have stopped them, and fill them with dust.

當他父親亞伯拉罕在世的日子，他父親的僕人所挖的井，非利士人全都塞住，填滿了土。

16 And Abimelech says to Isaac, “Go from us; for you have become much mightier than we”;

亞比米勒對以撒說：「你離開我們去吧。因為你比我們強盛得多。」

17 and Isaac goes from there, and encamps in the Valley of Gerar, and dwells there;

以撒就離開那裏，在基拉耳谷支搭帳棚，住在那裏。

18 and Isaac turns back, and digs the wells of water which they dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines have stopped after the death of Abraham, and he calls to them names according to the names which his father called them.

當他父親亞伯拉罕在世之日所挖的水井因非利士人在亞伯拉罕死後塞住了，以撒就重新挖出來，仍照他父親所叫的叫那些井的名字。

19 And Isaac’s servants dig in the valley, and find there a well of living water,

以撒的僕人在谷中挖井，便得了一口活水井。

20 and shepherds of Gerar strive with shepherds of Isaac, saying, “The water [is] ours”; and he calls the name of the well “Strife,” because they have striven habitually with him;

基拉耳的牧人與以撒的牧人爭競，說：「這水是我們的。」以撒就給那井起名叫埃色，因為他們和他相爭。

21 and they dig another well, and they strive also for it, and he calls its name “Hatred.”

以撒的僕人又挖了一口井，他們又為這井爭競，因此以撒給這井起名叫西提拿。

22 And he removes from there, and digs another well, and they have not striven for it, and he calls its name “Enlargements,” and says, “For—now has YHWH given enlargement to us, and we have been fruitful in the land.”

以撒離開那裏，又挖了一口井，他們不為這井爭競了，他就給那井起名叫利河伯。他說：「耶和華現在給我們寬闊之地，我們必在這地昌盛。」

23 And he goes up from there [to] Beer-Sheba,

以撒從那裏上別是巴去。

24 and YHWH appears to him during that night and says, “I [am] the God of your father Abraham, do not fear, for I [am] with you, and have blessed you, and have multiplied your seed, because of My servant Abraham”;

當夜耶和華向他顯現，說：「我是你父親亞伯拉罕的上帝，不要懼怕！因為我與你同在，要賜福給你，並要為我僕人亞伯拉罕的緣故，使你的後裔繁多。」

25 and he builds there an altar, and preaches in the Name of YHWH, and stretches out there his tent, and there Isaac’s servants dig a well.

以撒就在那裏築了一座壇，求告耶和華的名，並且支搭帳棚；他的僕人便在那裏挖了一口井。

26 And Abimelech has gone to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phichol head of his host;

亞比米勒，同他的朋友亞戶撒和他的軍長非各，從基拉耳來見以撒。

27 and Isaac says to them, “Why have you come to me, and you have hated me, and you send me away from you?”

以撒對他們說：「你們既然恨我，打發我走了，為甚麼到我這裏來呢？」

28 And they say, “We have certainly seen that YHWH has been with you, and we say, Now let there be an oath between us, between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you;

他們說：「我們明明地看見耶和華與你同在，便說，不如我們兩下彼此起誓，彼此立約，

29 do no evil with us, as we have not touched you, and as we have only done good with you, and send you away in peace; you [are] now blessed of YHWH.”

使你不害我們，正如我們未曾害你，一味地厚待你，並且打發你平平安安地走。你是蒙耶和華賜福的了。」

30 And he makes a banquet for them, and they eat and drink,

以撒就為他們設擺筵席，他們便吃了喝了。

31 and rise early in the morning, and swear to one another, and Isaac sends them away, and they go from him in peace.

他們清早起來彼此起誓。以撒打發他們走，他們就平平安安地離開他走了。

32 And it comes to pass during that day that Isaac’s servants come and declare to him concerning the circumstances of the well which they have dug, and say to him, “We have found water”;

那一天，以撒的僕人來，將挖井的事告訴他說：「我們得了水了。」

33 and he calls it Shebah, [oath, ] therefore the name of the city [is] Beer-Sheba, [Well of the Oath, ] to this day.

他就給那井起名叫示巴；因此那城叫做別是巴，直到今日。

34 And Esau is a son of forty years, and he takes a wife, Judith, daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath, daughter of Elon the Hittite,

以掃四十歲的時候娶了赫人比利的女兒猶滴，與赫人以倫的女兒巴實抹為妻。

35 and they are a bitterness of spirit to Isaac and to Rebekah.

她們常使以撒和利百加心裏愁煩。