1 و َحَدَثَتْ فِي البِلادِ مَجاعَةٌ غَيرُ المَجاعَةِ الأُولَى الَّتِي حَدَثَتْ فِي زَمَنِ إبْراهِيمَ. فَذَهَبَ إسْحاقُ إلَى مَدِينَةِ جَرارَ، إلَى أبِيمالِكَ مَلِكِ الفِلِسْطِيِّينَ.

There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, in Gerar.

2 ف َظَهَرَ اللهُ لإسْحاقَ وَقالَ لَهُ: «لا تَنْزِلْ إلَى مِصْرَ. بَلِ امْكُثْ فِي الأرْضِ الَّتِي سَأقُولُ لَكَ عَنْها.

Then the Lord appeared to him and said: “Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land of which I shall tell you.

3 ع ِشْ فِي هَذِهِ الأرْضِ غَرِيباً، وَسَأكُونُ مَعَكَ وَسَأُبارِكُكَ. إذْ سَأُعطِيكَ وَنَسلَكَ كُلَّ هَذِهِ الأراضِي. وَسَأفِي بِقَسَمِي الَّذِي أقْسَمْتُهُ لإبْراهِيمَ أبِيكَ.

Dwell in this land, and I will be with you and bless you; for to you and your descendants I give all these lands, and I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

4 س َأُضاعِفُ نَسلَكَ لِيَكُونُوا بِعَدَدِ نُجُومِ السَّماءِ. وَسَأُعطِي نَسلَكَ كُلَّ هَذِهِ الأراضِي، وَسَتنالُ كُلُّ اًمَمِ الأرْضِ بَرَكَةً بِنَسلِكَ.

And I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven; I will give to your descendants all these lands; and in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;

5 ل ِأنَّ إبْراهِيمَ أطاعَ كَلامِيَ، وَعَمِلَ بِوَصايايَ وَأحكامِي وَشَرائِعِي.»

because Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”

6 ف َاسْتَقَرَّ إسْحاقُ فِي جَرارَ.

So Isaac dwelt in Gerar.

7 ف َسَألَهُ أهلُ تِلْكَ المَنْطَقَةِ عَنْ زَوْجَتِهِ. فَقالَ: «إنَّها أُختِي.» فَقَدْ خافَ أنْ يَقُولَ: «إنَّها زَوْجَتِي.» إذْ قالَ فِي نَفسِهِ: «سَأقُولُ إنَّها أُختِي لِئَلّا يَقْتُلُونِي طَمَعاً فِي رِفْقَةَ، لِأنَّها جَمِيلَةٌ.»

And the men of the place asked about his wife. And he said, “She is my sister”; for he was afraid to say, “ She is my wife,” because he thought, “lest the men of the place kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to behold.”

8 و َبَعْدَ أنْ طالَتْ بِهِ الأيّامُ هُناكَ، نَظَرَ أبِيمالِكُ مَلِكُ الفِلِسْطِيِّينَ مِنْ نافِذَةٍ، وَرَأى إسْحاقَ يُلاطِفُ زَوْجَتَهُ رِفْقَةَ.

Now it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked through a window, and saw, and there was Isaac, showing endearment to Rebekah his wife.

9 ف َدَعا أبِيمالِكُ إسْحاقَ وَقالَ: «هِيَ امْرَأتُكَ إذاً! فَلِماذا قُلْتَ إنَّها أُخْتُكَ؟» فَقالَ إسْحاقُ لِأبِيمالِكَ: «خِفْتُ أنْ أمُوتَ بِسَبَبِها.»

Then Abimelech called Isaac and said, “Quite obviously she is your wife; so how could you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac said to him, “Because I said, ‘Lest I die on account of her.’”

10 ف َقالَ أبِيمالِكُ: «ما هَذا الَّذِي فَعَلْتَهُ بِنا؟ كانَ مُمْكِناً أنْ يُعاشِرَ واحِدٌ مِنْ جَماعَتِنا امْرَأتَكَ. لَوْ حَدَثَ هَذا، لَكُنْتَ قَدْ جَلَبْتَ عَلَينا ذَنْباً عَظِيماً.»

And Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might soon have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us.”

11 ح ِينَئِذٍ، أمَرَ أبِيمالِكُ كُلَّ قَوْمِهِ وَقالَ: «مَنْ يُؤذِي هَذا الرَّجُلَ أوْ زَوْجَتَهُ يُقْتَلُ.» ثَراءُ إسْحاق

So Abimelech charged all his people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.”

12 و َزَرَعَ إسْحاقُ بُذُوراً فِي تِلْكَ الأرْضِ. وَفِي السَّنَةِ نَفْسِها حَصَدَ مِئَةَ ضِعْفٍ. وَبارَكَ اللهُ إسْحاقَ.

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

13 ف َصارَ غَنِيّاً. ثُمَّ ازْدادَ غِنَىً أكثَرَ فَأكْثَرَ حَتَّى صارَ ثَرِيّاً جِدّاً.

The man began to prosper, and continued prospering until he became very prosperous;

14 ف َكانَتْ لَهُ قُطْعانٌ كَثِيرَةٌ مِنَ المَواشِي وَالبَقَرِ وَخُدّامٌ كَثِيرُونَ. فَحَسَدَهُ الفِلِسْطِيُّونَ.

for he had possessions of flocks and possessions of herds and a great number of servants. So the Philistines envied him.

15 و َكانَ الفِلِسْطِيُّونَ قَدْ طَمُّوا كُلَّ الآبارِ الَّتِي سَبَقَ أنْ حَفَرَها خُدّامُ أبِيهِ إبْراهِيمَ فِي زَمَنِهِ وَمَلأُوها تُراباً.

Now the Philistines had stopped up all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, and they had filled them with earth.

16 ف َقالَ أبِيمالِكُ لإسْحاقَ: «فارِقْنا، فَقَدْ أصْبَحتَ أقْوَى مِنّا بِكَثِيرٍ.»

And Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.”

17 ف انصَرَفَ إسْحاقُ مِنْ هُناكَ، وَخَيَّمَ فِي وادِي جَرارَ، وَاسْتَقَرَّ هُناكَ.

Then Isaac departed from there and pitched his tent in the Valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.

18 و َحَفَرَ إسْحاقُ آبارَ الماءِ الَّتِي حُفِرَتْ فِي أيّامِ أبِيهِ إبْراهِيمَ مِنْ جَدِيدٍ. إذْ كانَ الفِلِسْطِيُّونَ قَدْ طَمَرُوها بَعْدَ مَوْتِ إبْراهِيمَ. وَدَعاها إسْحاقُ بِالأسْماءَ نَفْسِها الَّتِي دَعاها بِها أبوْهُ.

And Isaac dug again the wells of water which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father, for the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham. He called them by the names which his father had called them.

19 ف َحَفَرَ خُدّامُ إسْحاقَ فِي الوادِي، وَوَجَدُوا نَبْعاً ذا مِياهٍ عَذْبَةٍ.

Also Isaac’s servants dug in the valley, and found a well of running water there.

20 ل َكِنَّ رُعاةَ جَرارَ تَنازَعُوا مَعَ رُعاةِ إسْحاقَ وَقالُوا: «الماءُ ماؤُنا.» فَسَمَّى إسْحاقُ المَكانَ عِسِقَ، لِأنَّهُمْ تَنازَعُوا مَعَهُ عَلَيها.

But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” So he called the name of the well Esek, because they quarreled with him.

21 ث ُمَّ حَفَرَ خُدّامُ إسْحاقَ بِئْراً أُخْرَى. فَنازَعَهُ أهلُ جَرارَ عَلَيها أيضاً. فَسَمّاها إسْحاقُ سِطْنَةَ.

Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that one also. So he called its name Sitnah.

22 ف انْتَقَلَ إسْحاقُ مِنْ هُناكَ وَحَفَرَ بِئْراً أُخْرَى. فَلَمْ يُنازِعُوهُ عَلَيها. فَسَمّاها رَحُوبُوتَ، وَقالَ: «الآنَ وَسَّعَ اللهُ لَنا، وَسَنَصِيرُ أكثَرَ عَدَداً فِي الأرْضِ.»

And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. So he called its name Rehoboth, because he said, “For now the Lord has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.”

23 و َانْتَقَلَ إسْحاقُ مِنْ هُناكَ إلَى بِئْرِ السَّبْعِ.

Then he went up from there to Beersheba.

24 و َظَهَرَ لَهُ اللهُ فِي تِلْكَ اللَّيلَةِ وَقالَ: «أنا إلَهُ إبِيكَ إبْراهِيمَ، فَلا تَخَفْ، لِأنِّي مَعَكَ، وَسَأُبارِكُكَ. وَسَأُكَثِّرُ نَسلَكَ مِنْ أجلِ إبْراهِيمَ عَبْدِي.»

And the Lord appeared to him the same night and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham; do not fear, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for My servant Abraham’s sake.”

25 ف َبَنَى إسْحاقُ مَذبَحاً هُناكَ، وَدَعا بِاسمِ اللهِ. وَنَصَبَ هُناكَ خَيمَتَهُ. وَحَفَرَ خُدّامُ إسْحاقَ بِئْراً هُناكَ.

So he built an altar there and called on the name of the Lord, and he pitched his tent there; and there Isaac’s servants dug a well.

26 و َجاءَ إلَيهِ أبِيمالِكُ مِنْ جَرارَ مَعَ صاحِبِهِ أحُزّاتَ وَفِيكُولَ آمِرِ جَيشِهِ.

Then Abimelech came to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath, one of his friends, and Phichol the commander of his army.

27 ف َقالَ لَهُمْ إسْحاقُ: «لِماذا جِئْتُمْ إلَيَّ؟ فَأنْتُمْ تُبْغِضُونَنِي، وَقَدْ صَرَفْتُمُونِي مِنْ أرْضِكُمْ.»

And Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me and have sent me away from you?”

28 ف َقالُوا لَهُ: «الآنَ تَأكَّدْنا أنَّ اللهَ مَعَكَ. فَقُلْنا: ‹لِيَحلِفْ أحَدُنا لِلآخَرِ عَلَى الوَفاءِ، وَلْنَقطَعْ مَعَكَ عَهْداً.›

But they said, “We have certainly seen that the Lord is with you. So we said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, between you and us; and let us make a covenant with you,

29 ع ِدْ بِأنَّكَ لَنْ تُؤْذِيَنا. فَنَحْنُ لَمْ نُؤْذِكَ. بَلْ لَمْ نَصنَعْ مَعَكَ إلّا خَيراً. وَقَدْ صَرَفْناكَ فِي سَلامٍ. وَأنتَ الآنَ مُبارَكٌ مِنَ اللهِ.»

that you will do us no harm, since we have not touched you, and since we have done nothing to you but good and have sent you away in peace. You are now the blessed of the Lord.’”

30 ف َأعَدَّ لَهُمْ وَلِيمَةً، فَأكَلُوا وَشَرِبُوا.

So he made them a feast, and they ate and drank.

31 و َبَكَّرُوا فِي الصَّباحِ وَتَعاهَدُوا. ثُمَّ وَدَّعَهُمْ إسْحاقُ، فَمَضُوا فِي سَلامٍ.

Then they arose early in the morning and swore an oath with one another; and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

32 و َفِي ذَلِكَ اليَوْمِ جاءَ خُدّامُ إسْحاقَ وَأخبَرُوهُ عَنِ البِئْرِ الَّتِي حَفَرُوها. قالُوا لَهُ: «لَقَدْ وَجَدْنا ماءً!»

It came to pass the same day that Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well which they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.”

33 ف َسَمّاها شِبْعَةَ. وَلِهَذا فَإنَّ اسْمَ المَدِينَةِ هُوَ بِئْرُ السَّبْعِ حَتَّى يَومِنا هَذا. زوجتا عِيسُو

So he called it Shebah. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.

34 و َلَمّا بَلَغَ عِيسُو الأربَعِينَ مِنَ العُمْرِ، تَزَوَّجَ يَهُودِيتَ ابْنَةَ بِيرِيَ الحِثِّيِّ، وَبَسْمَةَ ابْنَةَ إيلُونَ الحِثِّيِّ.

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

35 ف َكانَتا مَصْدَرَ حُزْنٍ لإسْحاقَ وَرِفْقَةَ.

And they were a grief of mind to Isaac and Rebekah.