1 En daar was hongersnood in die land, buiten die eerste hongersnood wat in die dae van Abraham gewees het. Daarom het Isak getrek na Abim,leg, die koning van die Filistyne, na Gerar.
2 En die HERE het aan hom verskyn en gesê: Moenie aftrek na Egipte nie; woon in die land wat Ek jou sal aanwys.
3 Vertoef as vreemdeling in hierdie land, en Ek sal met jou wees en jou seën; want aan jou en jou nageslag sal Ek al hierdie lande gee: Ek sal die eed bevestig wat Ek vir jou vader Abraham gesweer het.
4 En Ek sal jou nageslag vermeerder soos die sterre van die hemel en aan jou nageslag al hierdie lande gee, en in jou nageslag sal al die nasies van die aarde geseënword;
5 omdat Abraham na my stem geluister en my ordening, my gebooie, my insettinge en my wette onderhou het.
6 So het Isak dan in Gerar gebly.
7 En toe die manne van die plek hom na sy vrou vra, antwoord hy: Sy is my suster. Want hy was bang om te sê: My vrou -- anders sal die manne van die plek, so het hy gedink, my miskien doodmaak ter wille van Rebekka; want sy was mooi van aansien.
8 En toe hy al 'n lang tyd daar was, kyk Abim,leg, die koning van die Filistyne, deur die venster uit en sien hoe Isak speel met Rebekka, sy vrou.
9 En Abim,leg het Isak geroep en gesê: Kyk, sy is dan tog jou vrou! Hoe kon jy dan verklaar: Sy is my suster? En Isak antwoord hom: Ja, ek het gedink ek kan miskien om haar ontwil my lewe verloor!
10 En Abim,leg sê: Wat het jy ons nou aangedoen? Hoe maklik kon een van die mense met jou vrou gemeenskap gehad en jy 'n skuld oor ons gebring het!
11 Daarop gee Abim,leg bevel aan die hele volk en sê: Wie hierdie man of sy vrou aanraak, sal sekerlik gedood word.
12 Isak het toe in die land gesaai en daardie jaar honderdvoudig gewen, want die HERE het hom geseën.
13 En die man het groot geword en altyddeur groter geword totdat hy baie groot was:
14 hy het troppe kleinvee en beeste gehad en baie bediendes, sodat die Filistyne hom beny het.
15 En al die putte wat die dienaars van sy vader in die dae van sy vader Abraham gegrawe het, die het die Filistyne toegestop en met grond opgevul.
16 Toe sê Abim,leg vir Isak: Trek weg van ons, want jy het vir ons veels te magtig geword.
17 Daarop het Isak vandaar weggetrek en laer opgeslaan in die dal by Gerar en daar bly woon.
18 En Isak het die putte weer oopgegrawe wat hulle in die dae van sy vader Abraham gegrawe het, en wat die Filistyne n die dood van Abraham toegestop het, en dit genoem na die name wat sy vader daaraan gegee het.
19 En terwyl die dienaars van Isak in die dal grawe, vind hulle daar 'n put met lewendige water.
20 En die herders van Gerar het getwis met die herders van Isak en gesê: Dit is ons water. Daarom het hy die put Esek genoem, omdat hulle met hom onenigheid gehad het.
21 Daarop grawe hulle 'n ander put, en daaroor het hulle ook getwis. Daarom het hy dit Sitna genoem.
22 Toe het hy vandaar versit en 'n ander put gegrawe, en daaroor is nie getwis nie. Daarom het hy dit R,hobot genoem en gesê: Ja, nou het die HERE vir ons ruimte gemaak en kan ons vrugbaar wees in die land.
23 Daarna het hy vandaar opgetrek na Bers,ba.
24 En die HERE het aan hom in dieselfde nag verskyn en gesê: Ek is die God van Abraham, jou vader. Moenie bang wees nie, want Ek is met jou; en Ek sal jou seën en jou nageslag vermeerder ter wille van Abraham, my kneg.
25 Toe bou hy daar 'n altaar, en hy het die Naam van die HERE aangeroep en daar sy tent opgeslaan; en die dienaars van Isak het daar 'n put gegrawe.
26 Daarop kom Abim,leg na hom van Gerar af, saam met Ahussat, sy vriend, en Pigol, sy leërowerste.
27 En Isak het hulle gevra: Waarom het julle na my gekom terwyl julle my haat en my van julle af weggestuur het?
28 Toe antwoord hulle: Ons het duidelik gesien dat die HERE met jou is. Daarom het ons gedink: Laat daar tog 'n eed tussen ons wees, tussen ons en jou; en laat ons 'n verbond met jou sluit:
29 jy moet ons geen kwaad doen nie, net soos ons jou nie aangeraak en aan jou niks as goed gedoen het nie en jou in vrede weggestuur het. Jy is nou eenmaal die geseënde van die HERE.
30 Toe berei hy vir hulle 'n maaltyd, en hulle het geëet en gedrink.
31 En hulle is die môre vroeg op en het vir mekaar 'n eed gesweer. Daarop het Isak hulle laat gaan, en hulle het in vrede van hom af weggetrek.
32 Dieselfde dag kom toe die dienaars van Isak en vertel hom van die put wat hulle gegrawe het, en sê vir hom: Ons het water gekry.
33 En hy het dit Seba genoem. Daarom is die naam van die stad Bers,ba tot vandag toe.
34 Toe Esau veertig jaar oud was, het hy Judit, die dogter van Beëri, die Hetiet, vir hom as vrou geneem, en Basmat, die dogter van Elon, die Hetiet.
35 En hulle was vir Isak en Rebekka 'n bitter verdriet.
1 Then came a time of great need in the land, like that which had been before in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar.
2 And the Lord came to him in a vision and said, Do not go down to Egypt; keep in the land of which I will give you knowledge:
3 Keep in this land, and I will be with you and give you my blessing; for to you and to your seed will I give all these lands, giving effect to the oath which I made to your father Abraham;
4 I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and will give them all these lands, and your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth;
5 Because Abraham gave ear to my voice and kept my words, my rules, my orders, and my laws.
6 So Isaac went on living in Gerar;
7 And when he was questioned by the men of the place about his wife, he said, She is my sister; fearing to say, She is my wife; for, he said, the men of the place may put me to death on account of Rebekah; because she is very beautiful.
8 And when he had been there for some time, Abimelech, king of the Philistines, looking through a window, saw Isaac playing with Rebekah his wife.
9 And he said to Isaac, It is clear that she is your wife: why then did you say, She is my sister? And Isaac said, For fear that I might be put to death because of her.
10 Then Abimelech said, What have you done to us? one of the people might well have had connection with your wife, and the sin would have been ours.
11 And Abimelech gave orders to his people that anyone touching Isaac or his wife was to be put to death.
12 Now Isaac, planting seed in that land, got in the same year fruit a hundred times as much, for the blessing of the Lord was on him.
13 And his wealth became very great, increasing more and more;
14 For he had great wealth of flocks and herds and great numbers of servants; so that the Philistines were full of envy.
15 Now all the water-holes, which his father's servants had made in the days of Abraham, had been stopped up with earth by the Philistines.
16 And Abimelech said to Isaac, Go away from us, for you are stronger than we are.
17 So Isaac went away from there, and put up his tents in the valley of Gerar, making his living-place there.
18 And he made again the water-holes which had been made in the days of Abraham his father, and which had been stopped up by the Philistines; and he gave them the names which his father had given them.
19 Now Isaac's servants made holes in the valley, and came to a spring of flowing water.
20 But the herdmen of Gerar had a fight with Isaac's herdmen, for they said, The spring is ours: so he gave the spring the name of Esek, because there was a fight about it.
21 Then they made another water-hole, and there was a fight about that, so he gave it the name of Sitnah.
22 Then he went away from there, and made another water-hole, about which there was no fighting: so he gave it the name of Rehoboth, for he said, Now the Lord has made room for us, and we will have fruit in this land.
23 And from there he went on to Beer-sheba.
24 That night the Lord came to him in a vision, and said, I am the God of your father Abraham: have no fear for I am with you, blessing you, and your seed will be increased because of my servant Abraham.
25 Then he made an altar there, and gave worship to the name of the Lord, and he put up his tents there, and there his servants made a water-hole.
26 And Abimelech had come to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his friend and Phicol, the captain of his army.
27 And Isaac said to them, Why have you come to me, seeing that in your hate for me you sent me away from you?
28 And they said, We saw clearly that the Lord was with you: so we said, Let there be an oath between us and you, and let us make an agreement with you;
29 That you will do us no damage, even as we put no hand on you, and did you nothing but good, and sent you away in peace: and now the blessing of the Lord is on you.
30 Then he made a feast for them, and they all had food and drink.
31 And early in the morning they took an oath one to the other: then Isaac sent them away and they went on their way in peace.
32 And that day Isaac's servants came to him and gave him word of the water-hole which they had made, and said to him, We have come to water.
33 And he gave it the name of Shibah: so the name of that town is Beer-sheba to this day.
34 And when Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
35 And Isaac and Rebekah had grief of mind because of them.