1Zvino kwakava nenzara panyika; tisingaverengi nzara yekutanga yaivapo mazuva aAbhurahamu. Isaka ndokuenda kuna Abhimereki mambo wevaFirisitia, kuGerari.
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.
2Jehovha ndokuonekera kwaari, ndokuti: Usaburukira kuEgipita, gara munyika yandichakuudza;
2Yahweh appeared to him, and said, “Don’t go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.
3gara semweni munyika ino; uye ndichava newe, ndigokuropafadza; nekuti kwauri nekumbeu yako ndichapa nyika idzi dzose; uye ndichasimbisa mhiko yandakapika kuna Abhurahamu baba vako.
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.
4Zvino ndichawanza mbeu yako senyeredzi dzedenga; uye ndichapa kumbeu yako nyika idzi dzose; uye mumbeu yako marudzi ose enyika acharopafadzwa;
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,
5nekuti Abhurahamu wakateerera inzwi rangu, akachengeta kuraira kwangu, mirairo yangu, zvimiso zvangu nemitemo yangu.
5because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”
6Isaka ndokugara muGerari.
6Isaac lived in Gerar.
7Vanhu venyika iyoyo ndokumubvunza zvemukadzi wake. Iye ndokuti: Ihanzvadzi yangu; nekuti wakatya kuti: Mukadzi wangu. Zvimwe varume venyika ino vangandiuraya nekuda kwaRabheka, nekuti wakange akanaka pakutarisika.
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.”
8Zvino zvakaitika paakavapo nguva refu, kuti Abhimereki mambo wevaFirisitia, wakatarira nepahwindo, akaona, zvino tarira, Isaka achitamba naRabheka mukadzi wake.
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.
9Abhimereki ndokudana Isaka ndokuti: Tarira, zvirokwazvo mukadzi wako; zvino wakataura sei uchiti: Ihanzvadzi yangu? Isaka ndokuti kwaari: Nekuti ndakati, zvimwe ndingafa nekuda kwake.
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.’”
10Abhimereki ndokuti: Chii ichi chawaita kwatiri? Umwe wevanhu vedu zvanga zvakareruka kuti arare nemukadzi wako, newe ungadai wauisa mhosva pamusoro pedu.
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!”
11Abhimereki ndokuraira vanhu vose, achiti: Unobata munhu uyu kana mukadzi wake, achauraiwa zvirokwazvo.
11Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”
12Zvino Isaka akadzvara munyika iyoyo, ndokuwana mugore iro zvine zana; Jehovha ndokumuropafadza.
12Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.
13Zvino munhu uyu wakava mukuru, akaindirira mberi akakura kusvikira ava mukuru zvikuru.
13The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great.
14Uye waiva nefuma yemakwai nefuma yemombe nevaranda vazhinji; naizvozvo vaFirisitia vakamugodora.
14He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.
15Zvino matsime ose varanda vababa vake avakange vachera pamazuva aAbhurahamu baba vake, vaFirisitia vakaadzivira, vakaafusira nevhu.
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.
16Abhimereki ndokuti kuna Isaka: Ibva kwatiri, nekuti une simba kwazvo kupfuura isu.
16Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go from us, for you are much mightier than we.”
17Isaka ndokubvapo, ndokudzika musasa wake mumupata weGerari, ndokugarapo.
17Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.
18Isaka ndokucherazve matsime emvura, avakange vachera pamazuva aAbhurahamu baba vake, nekuti vaFirisitia vakange vaadzivira shure kwekufa kwaAbhurahamu. Ndokuatumidza mazita achitevera mazita baba vake avakange vaatumidza.
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.
19Varanda vaIsaka ndokuchera mumupata, ndokuwanapo tsime remvura inotubuka.
19Isaac’s servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
20Vafudzi veGerari ndokukonana nevafudzi vaIsaka, vachiti: Mvura ndeyedu. Zvino akatumidza zita retsime kuti Eseki, nekuti vakakonana naye.
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.
21Zvino vakachera rimwe tsime, vakakonaniranarozve; akatumidza zita raro Sitina.
21They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. He called its name Sitnah.
22Zvino akabvapo, ndokuchera rimwe tsime, iroro havana kurikonanirana. Ndokutumidza zita raro Rehobhoti, akati: Nekuti ikozvino Jehovha watiitira nzvimbo, uye tichabereka panyika.
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.”
23Zvino wakakwira kubvapo kuenda Bheerishebha.
23He went up from there to Beersheba.
24Jehovha ndokuonekera kwaari usiku ihwohwo ndokuti: Ndini Mwari waAbhurahamu baba vako. Usatya nekuti ndinewe, uye ndichakuropafadza, nekuwanza mbeu yako nekuda kwaAbhurahamu muranda wangu.
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.”
25Zvino wakavaka aritari ipapo, ndokudana muzita raJehovha, ndokudzika tende rake ipapo, zvino ipapo varanda vaIsaka vakachera tsime.
25He built an altar there, and called on the name of Yahweh, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac’s servants dug a well.
26Zvino Abhimereki wakaenda kwaari achibva Gerari neshamwari yake Ahuzati naPikori mukuru wehondo yake.
26Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.
27Isaka ndokuti kwavari: Mauyirei kwandiri, zvamunondivenga, uye makandidzinga kwamuri?
27Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?”
28Ivo ndokuti: Taona zvirokwazvo kuti Jehovha unewe. Naizvozvo tati: Zvino ngapave nemhiko pakati pedu, isu newe, uye ngatiite sungano newe,
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,
29chokuti usatiitira zvakaipa, sezvo tisina kukubata, uye sezvo takakuitira zvakanaka chete, uye takuendesa murugare; iwe ikozvino uri muropafadzwa waJehovha.
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.”
30Iye ndokuvaitira mabiko, ndokudya ndokumwa.
30He made them a feast, and they ate and drank.
31Zvino vakamuka mangwanani-ngwanani, vakapikirana; Isaka ndokuvarega vachienda, zvino vakabva kwaari nerugare.
31They rose up some time in the morning, and swore one to another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
32Zvino zvakaitika nemusi iwoyo, kuti varanda vaIsaka vakauya, ndokumuudza pamusoro petsime ravakange vachera, ndokuti kwaari: Tawana mvura.
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.”
33Zvino akaritumidza kuti Shebha; naizvozvo zita reguta ndiBheerishebha kusvikira zuva ranhasi.
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.
34Zvino Esau wakati ava nemakore makumi mana akazvitorera kuva mukadzi Judhisi mukunda waBheeri muHeti naBhasimati mukunda waEroni muHeti.
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.
35Ivavo vakava chishungurudzo chemoyo walsaka naRabheka.
35They grieved Isaac’s and Rebekah’s spirits.