¹ Depois da morte de Moisés, servo do Senhor, falou o Senhor a Josué, filho de Num, servidor de Moisés, dizendo:

² Moisés, meu servo, é morto; levanta-te pois agora, passa este Jordão, tu e todo este povo, para a terra que eu dou aos filhos de Israel.

³ Todo lugar que pisar a planta do vosso pé, vo-lo dei, como eu disse a Moisés.

⁴ Desde o deserto e este Líbano, até o grande rio, o rio Eufrates, toda a terra dos heteus, e até o grande mar para o poente do sol, será o vosso termo.

⁵ Ninguém te poderá resistir todos os dias da tua vida. Como fui com Moisés, assim serei contigo; não te deixarei, nem te desampararei.

⁶ Esforça-te, e tem bom ânimo, porque tu farás a este povo herdar a terra que jurei a seus pais lhes daria.

⁷ Tão-somente esforça-te e tem mui bom ânimo, cuidando de fazer conforme toda a lei que meu servo Moisés te ordenou; não te desvies dela, nem para a direita nem para a esquerda, a fim de que sejas bem sucedido por onde quer que andares.

⁸ Não se aparte da tua boca o livro desta lei, antes medita nele dia e noite, para que tenhas cuidado de fazer conforme tudo quanto nele está escrito; porque então farás prosperar o teu caminho, e serás bem sucedido.

⁹ Não to mandei eu? Esforça-te, e tem bom ânimo; não te atemorizes, nem te espantes; porque o Senhor teu Deus está contigo, por onde quer que andares.

¹⁰ Então Josué deu esta ordem aos oficiais do povo:

¹¹ Passai pelo meio do arraial, e ordenai ao povo, dizendo: Provede-vos de mantimentos, porque dentro de três dias haveis de atravessar este Jordão, a fim de que entreis para tomar posse da terra que o Senhor vosso Deus vos dá para a possuirdes.

¹² E disse Josué aos rubenitas, aos gaditas, e à meia tribo de Manassés:

¹³ Lembrai-vos da palavra que vos mandou Moisés, servo do Senhor, dizendo: O Senhor vosso Deus vos dá descanso, e vos dá esta terra.

¹⁴ Vossas mulheres, vossos pequeninos e vosso gado fiquem na terra que Moisés vos deu desta banda do Jordão; porém vós, todos os homens valorosos, passareis armados adiante de vossos irmãos e os ajudareis;

¹⁵ até que o Senhor tenha dado descanso: a vossos irmãos, assim como vo-lo deu a vós, e eles também tenham possuído a terra que o Senhor vosso Deus lhes dá; então tornareis para a terra da vossa herança, e a possuireis, terra que Moisés, servo do Senhor, vos deu além do Jordão, para o nascente do sol.

¹⁶ Então responderam a Josué, dizendo: Tudo quanto nos ordenaste faremos, e aonde quer que nos enviares iremos.

¹⁷ Como em tudo ouvimos a Moisés, assim te ouviremos a ti; tão-somente seja o Senhor teu Deus contigo, como foi com Moisés.

¹⁸ Quem quer que se rebelar contra as tuas ordens, e não ouvir as tuas palavras em tudo quanto lhe mandares, será morto. Tão-somente esforça-te, e tem bom ânimo.

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.