¹以撒與亞比米勒從前在亞伯拉罕的時候，曾經有過一次饑荒，現在那地又有饑荒，以撒就到基拉耳去，到非利士人的王亞比米勒那裡。

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.

²耶和華向以撒顯現，說：“你不要下到埃及去，要住在我所指示你的地方。

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

³你要寄居在這地，我必與你同在，必賜福給你，因為我要把這全地都賜給你和你的後裔，履行我向你父親亞伯拉罕所起的誓。

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.

⁴我必使你的後裔增多，好像天上的星那樣多；我必把這全地都賜給你的後裔；地上的萬國都必因你的後裔得福。

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,

⁵這是因為亞伯拉罕聽從了我的話，遵守了我的吩咐、我的命令、我的條例和我的律法。”

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

⁶於是，以撒就住在基拉耳。

⁶Isaac lived in Gerar.

⁷那地方的人問起他的妻子，他就回答：“她是我的妹妹。”因為他不敢說：“她是我的妻子。”他心裡想：“恐怕這地方的人，因利百加的緣故把我殺了，因為她容貌美麗。”

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.”

⁸以撒在那裡住了很久。有一天，非利士人的王亞比米勒從窗戶裡向外觀望，看見以撒正在愛撫他的妻子利百加。

⁸It 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亞比米勒於是把以撒召了來，對他說：“你看，她實在是你的妻子，你怎麼說是你的妹妹呢？”以撒回答他：“因為我心裡想：‘恐怕我因她的緣故喪命。’”

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.’”

¹⁰亞比米勒說：“你向我們作的是甚麼事呢？人民中間險些有人與你的妻子同睡，那你就把我們陷在罪惡裡了。”

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!”

¹¹於是，亞比米勒吩咐全國人民，說：“凡是觸犯這人或是他的妻子的，必被處死。”

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

¹²以撒在那裡耕種，那一年豐收百倍，

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

¹³他就日漸昌大，越來越富有，成了個大富翁。

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

¹⁴他擁有羊群、牛群和很多僕人，非利士人就嫉妒他。

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

¹⁵他父親亞伯拉罕在世的時候，所有由他父親僕人挖的井，非利士人都塞住了，填滿了土。

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.

¹⁶亞比米勒對以撒說：“你離開我們去吧，因為你比我們強大得多了。”

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

¹⁷以撒於是離開那裡，在基拉耳谷支搭帳棚，住在那裡。

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

¹⁸他父親亞伯拉罕在世的時候，僕人所挖的水井，在亞伯拉罕死後都被非利士人塞住了。以撒重新挖掘這些井，仍然照著他父親所起的名字叫它們。

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.

¹⁹以撒的僕人在山谷裡挖井，在那裡挖得一口活水井。

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

²⁰基拉耳的牧人與以撒的牧人爭鬧起來，說：“這水是我們的。”以撒就給那井起名叫埃色，因為他們與他相爭。

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.

²¹以撒的僕人又挖了另一口井，他們又為這井爭鬧起來，因此以撒給這井起名叫西提拿。

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

²²以撒離開那裡，又挖了另一口井；他們不再為這井爭鬧了，他就給那井起名利河伯，因為他說：“現在耶和華給我們寬闊的地方，我們必在這裡繁盛起來了。”

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.”

²³以撒從那裡上到別是巴去。

²³He went up from there to Beersheba.

²⁴那天晚上，耶和華向他顯現，說：“我是你父親亞伯拉罕的　神；你不要怕，因為我與你同在；我必為了我僕人亞伯拉罕的緣故，賜福給你，使你的後裔增多。”

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.”

²⁵以撒就在那裡築了一座祭壇，呼求耶和華的名；又在那裡支搭帳棚；以撒的僕人也在那裡挖了一口井。

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

²⁶以撒與亞比米勒立約亞比米勒和他的朋友亞戶撒，以及他的軍長非各，從基拉耳來到以撒那裡。

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

²⁷以撒問他們：“你們既然恨我，把我從你們中間趕出來，為甚麼又到我這裡來呢？”

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

²⁸他們回答：“我們實在看見耶和華與你同在，因此我們想：‘不如我們雙方起誓。’讓我們與你立約吧；

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,

²⁹你不要傷害我們，正如我們從來沒有觸犯你，只有善待你，讓你平平安安地離開。現在你是蒙耶和華賜福的了。”

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.”

³⁰以撒就為他們擺設筵席，他們就一起吃喝。

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

³¹第二天，他們清早起來，彼此起誓；以撒就送他們走，他們平平安安地離開他走了。

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

³²那一天，以撒的僕人來把他們挖井的事告訴他，說：“我們找到水了。”

³²It 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以撒就給那井起名叫示巴，因此那城名叫別示巴，直到今日。

³³He called it Shibah. Shibah means “oath” or “seven.” Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba Beersheba means “well of the oath” or “well of the seven” to this day.

³⁴以掃娶二妻以掃四十歲的時候，娶了赫人比利的女兒猶滴，和赫人以倫的女兒巴實抹為妻。

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.

³⁵她們二人常使以撒和利百加傷心難過。

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