BERESHITH (GENESIS) 26

Gen 26:1 And there was a scarcity of food in the land, besides the first
scarcity of food which was in the days of Aḇraham. And Yitsḥaq went to
Aḇimeleḵ, sovereign of the Philistines, in Gerar.
Gen 26:2 And יהוה appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Mitsrayim,
live in the land which I command you.
Gen 26:3 “Sojourn in this land. And I shall be with you and bless you, for I
give all these lands to you and your seed. And I shall establish the oath which
I swore to Aḇraham your father.
Gen 26:4 “And I shall increase your seed like the stars of the heavens, and I
shall give all these lands to your seed. And in your seed all the nations of the
earth shall be blessed,
Gen 26:5 because Aḇraham obeyed My voice and guarded My Charge: My
commands, My laws, and My Torot.”
Gen 26:6 And Yitsḥaq dwelt in Gerar.
Gen 26:7 And when the men of the place asked about his wife, he said, “She
is my sister.” For he was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” thinking, “lest the
men of the place should kill me for Riḇqah, because she is good-looking.”
Gen 26:8 And it came to be, when he had been there a long time, that
Aḇimeleḵ sovereign of the Philistines looked through a window, and he
watched and saw Yitsḥaq playing with Riḇqah his wife.
Gen 26:9 So Aḇimeleḵ called Yitsḥaq and said, “See, truly she is your wife!
So how could you say, ‘She is my sister’?” And Yitsḥaq said to him,
“Because I said, ‘Lest I die on account of her.’ ”
Gen 26:10 And Aḇimeleḵ said, “What is this you have done to us? One of
the people had almost lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt
on us.”
Gen 26:11 And Aḇimeleḵ commanded all his people, saying, “He who
touches this man or his wife shall certainly be put to death.”
Gen 26:12 And Yitsḥaq sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year a
hundredfold, and יהוה blessed him.
Gen 26:13 And the man grew great and went forward until he became very
great.
Gen 26:14 And he came to have possessions of flocks and possessions of
herds and a great body of servants, and the Philistines envied him.
Gen 26:15 And the Philistines had stopped up all the wells which his
father’s servants had dug in the days of Aḇraham his father, and filled them
with dirt.
Gen 26:16 And Aḇimeleḵ said to Yitsḥaq, “Go away from us, for you are
much mightier than we.”
Gen 26:17 So Yitsḥaq went from there and pitched his tent in the wadi
Gerar, and dwelt there.
Gen 26:18 And Yitsḥaq dug again the wells of water which they had dug in
the days of Aḇraham his father, for the Philistines had stopped them up after
the death of Aḇraham. And he called them by the names which his father had
called them.
Gen 26:19 But when Yitsḥaq’s servants dug in the wadi and found a well of
running water there,
Gen 26:20 the herdsmen of Gerar strove with Yitsḥaq’s herdsmen, saying,
“The water is ours.” And he called the name of the well Ĕseq, because they
strove with him.
Gen 26:21 And they dug another well, and they strove over that one too, and
he called its name Sitnah.
Gen 26:22 And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not
strive over it. And he called its name Reḥoḇoth, and said, “For now יהוה has
made room for us, and we shall bear fruit in the land.”
Gen 26:23 And from there he went up to Be’ĕrsheḇa.
Gen 26:24 And יהוה appeared to him the same night and said, “I am the
Elohim of your father Aḇraham. Do not fear, for I am with you, and shall
bless you and increase your seed for My servant Aḇraham’s sake.”
Gen 26:25 And he built an altar there, and called on the Name of יהוה, and he
pitched his tent there, and the servants of Yitsḥaq dug a well there.
Gen 26:26 And Aḇimeleḵ came to him from Gerar, with Aḥuzzath, one of his
friends, and Piḵol the commander of his army.
Gen 26:27 And Yitsḥaq said to them, “Why have you come to me, seeing you
have hated me and have sent me away from you?”
Gen 26:28 But they said, “We have clearly seen that יהוה is with you. And
we said, ‘Please, let there be an oath between us, between you and us. And
let us make a covenant with you,
Gen 26:29 that you do no evil to us, as we have not touched you, and as we
have done only good toward you, and have sent you away in peace. You are
now blessed by .יהוה’ ”
Gen 26:30 And he made them a feast, and they ate and drank.
Gen 26:31 And they rose early in the morning and swore an oath with one
another. And Yitsḥaq let them go, and they departed from him in peace.
Gen 26:32 And on the same day it came to be that the servants of Yitsḥaq
came and informed him about the well which they had dug, and said to him,
“We have found water.”
Gen 26:33 So he called it Shiḇah. Therefore the name of the city is
Be’ĕrsheḇa to this day.
Gen 26:34 And when Ĕsaw was forty years old, he took as wives Yehuḏith
the daughter of Be’ĕri the Ḥittite, and Basemath the daughter of Ĕlon the
Ḥittite.
Gen 26:35 And they were a bitterness of spirit to Yitsḥaq and Riḇqah.