Genesis 26 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ And there was a scarcity of food in the land, besides the first scarcity of food which was in the days of Aḇ

² And יהוה  appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Mitsrayim, live in the land which I command you.

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 Aḇ

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,

⁵ because Aḇ

⁶ And Yitsḥ

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 Riḇ

⁸ And it came to be, when he had been there a long time, that Aḇ

⁹ So Aḇ

¹⁰ And Aḇ

¹¹ And Aḇ

¹² And Yitsḥ

¹³ And the man grew great and went forward until he became very great.

¹⁴ And he came to have possessions of flocks and possessions of herds and a great body of servants, and the Philistines envied him.

¹⁵ And the Philistines had stopped up all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Aḇ

¹⁶ And Aḇ

¹⁷ So Yitsḥ

¹⁸ And Yitsḥ

¹⁹ But when Yitsḥ

²⁰ the herdsmen of Gerar strove with Yitsḥ

²¹ And they dug another well, and they strove over that one too, and he called its name Sitnah.

²² And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not strive over it. And he called its name Reḥ

²³ And from there he went up to Be’ĕ

²⁴ And יהוה  appeared to him the same night and said, “I am the Elohim of your father Aḇ

²⁵ And he built an altar there, and called on the Name of יהוה, and he pitched his tent there, and the servants of Yitsḥ

²⁶ And Aḇ

²⁷ And Yitsḥ

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,

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.’ ”

³⁰ And he made them a feast, and they ate and drank.

³¹ And they rose early in the morning and swore an oath with one another. And Yitsḥ

³² And on the same day it came to be that the servants of Yitsḥ

³³ So he called it Shiḇ

³⁴ And when Ě

³⁵ And they were a bitterness of spirit to Yitsḥ