¹ 在亚伯拉罕的日子，那地有一次饥荒；这时又有饥荒，以撒就往基拉耳去，到非利士人的王亚比米勒那里。

² 耶和华向以撒显现，说：你不要下去，要住在我所指示你的地。

³ 你寄居在这地，我必与你同在，赐福给你，因为我要将这些地都赐给你和你的後裔。我必坚定我向你父亚伯拉罕所起的誓。

⁴ 我要加增你的後裔，像天上的星那样多，又要将这些地都赐给你的後裔。并且地上万国必因你的後裔得福─

⁵ 都因亚伯拉罕听从我的话，遵守我的吩咐和我的命令、律例、法度。

⁶ 以撒就住在基拉耳。

⁷ 那地方的人问到他的妻子，他便说：那是我的妹子。原来他怕说：是我的妻子；他心里想：恐怕这地方的人为利百加的缘故杀我，因为他容貌俊美。

⁸ 他在那里住了许久。有一天，非利士人的王亚比米勒从窗户里往外观看，见以撒和他的妻子利百加戏玩。

⁹ 亚比米勒召了以撒来，对他说：他实在是你的妻子，你怎麽说他是你的妹子？以撒说：我心里想，恐怕我因他而死。

¹⁰ 亚比米勒说：你向我们做的是甚麽事呢？民中险些有人和你的妻同寝，把我们陷在罪里。

¹¹ 於是亚比米勒晓谕众民说：凡沾着这个人，或是他妻子的，定要把他治死。

¹² 以撒在那地耕种，那一年有百倍的收成。耶和华赐福给他，

¹³ 他就昌大，日增月盛，成了大富户。

¹⁴ 他有羊群牛群，又有许多仆人，非利士人就嫉妒他。

¹⁵ 当他父亲亚伯拉罕在世的日子，他父亲的仆人所挖的井，非利士人全都塞住，填满了土。

¹⁶ 亚比米勒对以撒说：你离开我们去罢。因为你比我们强盛得多。

¹⁷ 以撒就离开那里，在基拉耳谷支搭帐棚，住在那里。

¹⁸ 当他父亲亚伯拉罕在世之日所挖的水井因非利士人在亚伯拉罕死後塞住了，以撒就重新挖出来，仍照他父亲所叫的叫那些井的名字。

¹⁹ 以撒的仆人在谷中挖井，便得了一口活水井。

²⁰ 基拉耳的牧人与以撒的牧人争竞，说：这水是我们的。以撒就给那井起名叫埃色(就是相争的意思)，因为他们和他相争。

²¹ 以撒的仆人又挖了一口井，他们又为这井争竞，因此以撒给这井起名叫西提拿(就是为敌的意思)。

²² 以撒离开那里，又挖了一口井，他们不为这井争竞了，他就给那井起名叫利河伯(就是宽阔的意思)。他说：耶和华现在给我们宽阔之地，我们必在这地昌盛。

²³ 以撒从那里上别是巴去。

²⁴ 当夜耶和华向他显现，说：我是你父亲亚伯拉罕的神，不要惧怕！因为我与你同在，要赐福给你，并要为我仆人亚伯拉罕的缘故，使你的後裔繁多。

²⁵ 以撒就在那里筑了一座坛，求告耶和华的名，并且支搭帐棚；他的仆人便在那里挖了一口井。

²⁶ 亚比米勒，同他的朋友亚户撒和他的军长非各，从基拉耳来见以撒。

²⁷ 以撒对他们说：你们既然恨我，打发我走了，为甚麽到我这里来呢？

²⁸ 他们说：我们明明的看见耶和华与你同在，便说，不如我们两下彼此起誓，彼此立约，

²⁹ 使你不害我们，正如我们未曾害你，一味的厚待你，并且打发你平平安安的走。你是蒙耶和华赐福的了。

³⁰ 以撒就为他们设摆筵席，他们便吃了喝了。

³¹ 他们清早起来彼此起誓。以撒打发他们走，他们就平平安安的离开他走了。

³² 那一天，以撒的仆人来，将挖井的事告诉他说：我们得了水了。

³³ 他就给那井起名叫示巴；因此那城叫做别是巴，直到今日。

³⁴ 以扫四十岁的时候娶了赫人比利的女儿犹滴，与赫人以伦的女儿巴实抹为妻。

³⁵ 他们常使以撒和利百加心里愁烦。

¹ There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

² Yahweh appeared to him, and said, "Don't go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.

³ Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

⁴ I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed,

⁵ because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."

⁶ Isaac lived in Gerar.

⁷ The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "My wife," lest, he thought, "the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at."

⁸ It happened, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.

⁹ Abimelech called Isaac, and said, "Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, 'She is my sister?'" Isaac said to him, "Because I said, 'Lest I die because of her.'"

¹⁰ Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!"

¹¹ Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."

¹² Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.

¹³ The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great.

¹⁴ He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.

¹⁵ Now all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.

¹⁶ Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go from us, for you are much mightier than we."

¹⁷ Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.

¹⁸ Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father. For the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.

¹⁹ Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.

²⁰ The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.

²¹ They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. He called its name Sitnah.

²² He left that place, and dug another well. They didn't argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, "For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land."

²³ He went up from there to Beersheba.

²⁴ Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Don't be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my servant Abraham's sake."

²⁵ He built an altar there, and called on the name of Yahweh, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac's servants dug a well.

²⁶ Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.

²⁷ Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?"

²⁸ They said, "We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. We said, 'Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you,

²⁹ that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.' You are now the blessed of Yahweh."

³⁰ He made them a feast, and they ate and drank.

³¹ They rose up some time in the morning, and swore one to another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

³² It happened the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, "We have found water."

³³ He called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.

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

³⁵ They grieved Isaac's and Rebekah's spirits.