1Or ci fu la carestia nel paese, oltre la prima carestia che c’era stata al tempo d’Abrahamo. E Isacco andò da Abimelec, re dei Filistei, a Gherar. 2E l’Eterno gli apparve e gli disse: "Non scendere in Egitto; dimora nel paese che io ti dirò. 3Soggiorna in questo paese, e io sarò teco e ti benedirò, poiché io darò a te e alla tua progenie tutti questi paesi, e manterrò il giuramento che feci ad Abrahamo tuo padre, 4e moltiplicherò la tua progenie come le stelle del cielo, darò alla tua progenie tutti questi paesi, e tutte le nazioni della terra saranno benedette nella tua progenie, 5perché Abrahamo ubbidì alla mia voce e osservò quello che gli avevo ordinato, i miei comandamenti, i miei statuti e le mie leggi". 6E Isacco dimorò in Gherar. 7E quando la gente del luogo gli faceva delle domande intorno alla sua moglie, egli rispondeva: "E’ mia sorella"; perché avea paura di dire: "E’ mia moglie". "Non vorrei", egli pensava, "che la gente del luogo avesse ad uccidermi, a motivo di Rebecca". Poiché ella era di bell’aspetto. 8Ora, prolungandosi quivi il suo soggiorno, avvenne che Abimelec re de’ Filistei, mentre guardava dalla finestra, vide Isacco che scherzava con Rebecca sua moglie. 9E Abimelec chiamò Isacco, e gli disse: "Certo, costei è tua moglie; come mai dunque, hai detto: E mia sorella?" E Isacco rispose: "Perché dicevo: Non vorrei esser messo a morte a motivo di lei". 10E Abimelec: "Che cos’è questo che ci hai fatto? Poco è mancato che qualcuno del popolo si giacesse con tua moglie, e tu ci avresti tirato addosso una gran colpa". 11E Abimelec diede quest’ordine a tutto il popolo: "Chiunque toccherà quest’uomo o sua moglie sia messo a morte". 12Isacco seminò in quel paese, e in quell’anno raccolse il centuplo; e l’Eterno lo benedisse. 13Quest’uomo divenne grande, andò crescendo sempre più, finché diventò grande oltremisura. 14Fu padrone di greggi di pecore, di mandre di buoi e di numerosa servitù. I Filistei lo invidiavano; 15e perciò turarono ed empiron di terra tutti i pozzi che i servi di suo padre aveano scavati al tempo d’Abrahamo suo padre. 16E Abimelec disse ad Isacco: "Vattene da noi, poiché tu sei molto più potente di noi". 17Isacco allora si partì di là, s’accampò nella valle di Gherar, e quivi dimorò. 18E Isacco scavò di nuovo i pozzi d’acqua ch’erano stati scavati al tempo d’Abrahamo suo padre, e che i Filistei avean turati dopo la morte d’Abrahamo; e pose loro gli stessi nomi che avea loro posto suo padre. 19E i servi d’Isacco scavarono nella valle, e vi trovarono un pozzo d’acqua viva. 20Ma i pastori di Gherar altercarono coi pastori d’Isacco, dicendo: "L’acqua è nostra". Ed egli chiamò il pozzo Esek, perché quelli aveano conteso con lui. 21Poi i servi scavarono un altro pozzo, e per questo ancora quelli altercarono. E Isacco lo chiamò Sitna. 22Allora egli si partì di là, e scavò un altro pozzo per il quale quelli non altercarono. Ed egli lo chiamò Rehoboth "perché", disse, "ora l’Eterno ci ha messi al largo, e noi prospereremo nel paese". 23Poi di là Isacco salì a Beer-Sceba. 24E l’Eterno gli apparve quella stessa notte, e gli disse: "Io sono l’Iddio d’Abrahamo tuo padre; non temere, poiché io sono teco e ti benedirò e moltiplicherò la tua progenie per amor d’Abrahamo mio servo". 25Ed egli edificò quivi un altare, invocò il nome dell’Eterno, e vi piantò la sua tenda. E i servi d’Isacco scavaron quivi un pozzo. 26Abimelec andò a lui da Gherar con Ahuzath, suo amico, e con Picol, capo del suo esercito. 27E Isacco disse loro: "Perché venite da me, giacché mi odiate e m’avete mandato via dal vostro paese?" 28E quelli risposero: "Noi abbiam chiaramente veduto che l’Eterno è teco; e abbiam detto: Si faccia ora un giuramento fra noi, fra noi e te, e facciam lega teco. 29Giura che non ci farai alcun male, così come noi non t’abbiamo toccato, e non t’abbiamo fatto altro che del bene, e t’abbiamo lasciato andare in pace. Tu sei ora benedetto dall’Eterno". 30E Isacco fece loro un convito, ed essi mangiarono e bevvero. 31La mattina dipoi si levarono di buon’ora e si fecero scambievole giuramento. Poi Isacco li accomiatò, e quelli si partirono da lui in pace. 32Or avvenne che, in quello stesso giorno, i servi d’Isacco gli vennero a dar notizia del pozzo che aveano scavato, dicendogli: "Abbiam trovato dell’acqua". 33Ed egli lo chiamò Sciba. Per questo la città porta il nome di Beer-Sceba, fino al di d’oggi. 34Or Esaù, in età di quarant’anni, prese per moglie Judith, figliuola di Beeri, lo Hitteo, e Basmath, figliuola di Elon, lo Hitteo. 35(H26-34) Esse furon cagione d’amarezza d’animo a Isacco ed a Rebecca.
1There 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. 2Yahweh appeared to him, and said, “Don’t go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about. 3Live 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. 4I 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, 5because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.” 6Isaac lived in Gerar. 7The 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.” 8When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife. 9Abimelech 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.’” 10Abimelech 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!” 11Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.” 12Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him. 13The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great. 14He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him. 15Now 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. 16Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go from us, for you are much mightier than we.” 17Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there. 18Isaac 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. 19Isaac’s servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water. 20The 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. 21They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. He called its name Sitnah. 22He 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.” 23He went up from there to Beersheba. 24Yahweh 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.” 25He built an altar there, and called on Yahweh’s name, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac’s servants dug a well. 26Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army. 27Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?” 28They 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, 29that 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.” 30He made them a feast, and they ate and drank. 31They rose up some time in the morning, and swore one to another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace. 32The same day, Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.” 33He called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day. 34When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite. 35They grieved Isaac’s and Rebekah’s spirits.
1En er was honger in dat land, behalve den eerste honger, die in de dagen van Abraham geweest was; daarom toog Izak tot Abimelech, de koning der Filistijnen, naar Gerar. 2En de HEERE verscheen hem en zeide: Trek niet af naar Egypte; woon in het land, dat Ik u aanzeggen zal; 3Woon als vreemdeling in dat land, en Ik zal met u zijn, en zal u zegenen; want aan u en uw zaad zal Ik al deze landen geven, en Ik zal den eed bevestigen, dien Ik Abraham uw vader gezworen heb. 4En Ik zal uw zaad vermenigvuldigen, als de sterren des hemels, en zal aan uw zaad al deze landen geven; en in uw zaad zullen gezegend worden alle volken der aarde, 5Daarom dat Abraham Mijn stem gehoorzaam geweest is, en heeft onderhouden Mijn bevel, Mijn geboden, Mijn inzettingen en Mijn wetten. 6Alzo woonde Izak te Gerar. 7En als de mannen van die plaats hem vraagden van zijn huisvrouw, zeide hij: Zij is mijn zuster; want hij vreesde te zeggen, mijn huisvrouw; opdat mij misschien, zeide hij, de mannen dezer plaats niet doden, om Rebekka; want zij was schoon van aangezicht. 8En het geschiedde, als hij een langen tijd daar geweest was, dat Abimelech, de koning der Filistijnen, ten venster uitkeek, en hij zag, dat, ziet, Izak was jokkende met Rebekka zijn huisvrouw. 9Toen riep Abimelech Izak, en zeide: Voorwaar, zie, zij is uw huisvrouw! hoe hebt gij dan gezegd: Zij is mijn zuster? En Izak zeide tot hem: Want ik zeide: Dat ik niet misschien om harentwil sterve. 10En Abimelech zeide: Wat is dit, dat gij ons gedaan hebt? Lichtelijk had een van dit volk bij uw huisvrouw gelegen, zodat gij een schuld over ons zoudt gebracht hebben. 11En Abimelech gebood het ganse volk, zeggende: Zo wie deze man of zijn huisvrouw aanroert, zal voorzeker gedood worden! 12En Izak zaaide in datzelve land, en hij vond in datzelve jaar honderd maten; want de HEERE zegende hem. 13En die man werd groot, ja, hij werd doorgaans groter, totdat hij zeer groot geworden was. 14En hij had bezitting van schapen, en bezitting van runderen, en groot gezin; zodat hem de Filistijnen benijdden. 15En al de putten, die de knechten van zijn vader, in de dagen van zijn vader Abraham, gegraven hadden, die stopten de Filistijnen, en vulden dezelve met aarde. 16Ook zeide Abimelech tot Izak: Trek van ons; want gij zijt veel machtiger geworden, dan wij. 17Toen toog Izak van daar, en hij legerde zich in het dal van Gerar, en woonde aldaar. 18Als nu Izak wedergekeerd was, groef hij die waterputten op, die zij ten tijde van Abraham, zijn vader, gegraven, en die de Filistijnen na Abrahams dood toegestopt hadden; en hij noemde derzelver namen naar de namen, waarmede zijn vader die genoemd had. 19De knechten van Izak dan groeven in dat dal, en zij vonden aldaar een put van levend water. 20En de herders van Gerar twistten met Izaks herders, zeggende: Dit water hoort ons toe! Daarom noemde hij de naam van die put Esek, omdat zij met hem gekeven hadden. 21Toen groeven zij een andere put, en daar twistten zij ook over; daarom noemde hij deszelfs naam Sitna. 22En hij brak op van daar, en groef een andere put, en zij twistten over dien niet; daarom noemde hij deszelfs naam Rehoboth, en zeide: Want nu heeft ons de HEERE ruimte gemaakt, en wij zijn gewassen in dit land. 23Daarna toog hij van daar op naar Ber-seba. 24En de HEERE verscheen hem in denzelven nacht, en zeide: Ik ben de God van Abraham, uw vader; vrees niet; want Ik ben met u; en Ik zal u zegenen, en uw zaad vermenigvuldigen, om Abrahams, Mijns knechts, wil. 25Toen bouwde hij daar een altaar, en riep den Naam des HEEREN aan. En hij sloeg aldaar zijn tent op; en Izaks knechten groeven daar een put. 26En Abimelech trok tot hem van Gerar, met Ahuzzat, zijn vriend, en Pichol, zijn krijgsoverste. 27En Izak zeide tot hen: Waarom zijt gij tot mij gekomen, daar gij mij haat, en hebt mij van u weggezonden? 28En zij zeiden: Wij hebben merkelijk gezien, dat de HEERE met u is; daarom hebben wij gezegd: Laat toch een eed tussen ons zijn, tussen ons en tussen u, en laat ons een verbond met u maken: 29Zo gij bij ons kwaad doet, gelijk als wij u niet aangeroerd hebben, en gelijk als wij bij u alleenlijk goed gedaan hebben, en hebben u in vrede laten trekken! Gij zijt nu de gezegende des HEEREN! 30Toen maakte hij hun een maaltijd, en zij aten en dronken. 31En zij stonden des morgens vroeg op, en zwoeren de een den ander; daarna liet Izak hen gaan, en zij togen van hem in vrede. 32En het geschiedde ten zelfde dage, dat Izaks knechten kwamen, en boodschapten hem van de zaak des puts, dien zij gegraven hadden, en zij zeiden hem: Wij hebben water gevonden. 33En hij noemde denzelven Seba; daarom is de naam dier stad Ber-seba, tot op dezen dag. 34Als nu Ezau veertig jaren oud was, nam hij tot een vrouw Judith, de dochter van Beeri, den Hethiet, en Basmath, de dochter van Elon, den Hethiet. 35En deze waren voor Izak en Rebekka een bitterheid des geestes.
La numerazione dei versetti segue la traduzione scelta e in alcuni capitoli può differire di un versetto.