उत्पत्ति 26
1 और उस देश में अकाल पड़ा, वह उस पहिले अकाल से अलग था जो इब्राहीम के दिनों में पड़ा था। सो इसहाक गरार को पलिश्तियों के राजा अबीमेलेक के पास गया।
2 वहां यहोवा ने उसको दर्शन देकर कहा, मिस्र में मत जा; जो देश मैं तुझे बताऊं उसी में रह।
3 तू इसी देश में रह, और मैं तेरे संग रहूंगा, और तुझे आशीष दूंगा; और ये सब देश मैं तुझ को, और तेरे वंश को दूंगा; और जो शपथ मैं ने तेरे पिता इब्राहीम से खाई थी, उसे मैं पूरी करूंगा।
4 और मैं तेरे वंश को आकाश के तारागण के समान करूंगा। और मैं तेरे वंश को ये सब देश दूंगा, और पृथ्वी की सारी जातियां तेरे वंश के कारण अपने को धन्य मानेंगी।
5 क्योंकि इब्राहीम ने मेरी मानी, और जो मैं ने उसे सौंपा था उसको और मेरी आज्ञाओं विधियों, और व्यवस्था का पालन किया।
6 सो इसहाक गरार में रह गया।
7 जब उस स्थान के लोगों ने उसकी पत्नी के विषय में पूछा, तब उसने यह सोच कर कि यदि मैं उसको अपनी पत्नी कहूं, तो यहां के लोग रिबका के कारण जो परमसुन्दरी है मुझ को मार डालेंगे, उत्तर दिया, वह तो मेरी बहिन है।
8 जब उसको वहां रहते बहुत दिन बीत गए, तब एक दिन पलिश्तियों के राजा अबीमेलेक ने खिड़की में से झांक के क्या देखा, कि इसहाक अपनी पत्नी रिबका के साथ क्रीड़ा कर रहा है।
9 तब अबीमेलेक ने इसहाक को बुलवा कर कहा, वह तो निश्चय तेरी पत्नी है; फिर तू ने क्योंकर उसको अपनी बहिन कहा? इसहाक ने उत्तर दिया, मैं ने सोचा था, कि ऐसा न हो कि उसके कारण मेरी मृत्यु हो।
10 अबीमेलेक ने कहा, तू ने हम से यह क्या किया? ऐसे तो प्रजा में से कोई तेरी पत्नी के साथ सहज से कुकर्म कर सकता, और तू हम को पाप में फंसाता।
11 और अबीमेलेक ने अपनी सारी प्रजा को आज्ञा दी, कि जो कोई उस पुरूष को वा उस स्त्री को छूएगा, सो निश्चय मार डाला जाएगा।
12 फिर इसहाक ने उस देश में जोता बोया, और उसी वर्ष में सौ गुणा फल पाया: और यहोवा ने उसको आशीष दी।
13 और वह बढ़ा और उसकी उन्नति होती चली गई, यहां तक कि वह अति महान पुरूष हो गया।
14 जब उसके भेड़-बकरी, गाय-बैल, और बहुत से दास-दासियां हुई, तब पलिश्ती उससे डाह करने लगे।
15 सो जितने कुओं को उसके पिता इब्राहीम के दासों ने इब्राहीम के जीते जी खोदा था, उन को पलिश्तियों ने मिट्टी से भर दिया।
16 तब अबीमेलेक ने इसहाक से कहा, हमारे पास से चला जा; क्योंकि तू हम से बहुत सामर्थी हो गया है।
17 सो इसहाक वहां से चला गया, और गरार के नाले में तम्बू खड़ा करके वहां रहने लगा।
18 तब जो कुएं उसके पिता इब्राहीम के दिनों में खोदे गए थे, और इब्राहीम के मरने के पीछे पलिश्तियों ने भर दिए थे, उन को इसहाक ने फिर से खुदवाया; और उनके वे ही नाम रखे, जो उसके पिता ने रखे थे।
19 फिर इसहाक के दासों को नाले में खोदते खोदते बहते जल का एक सोता मिला।
20 तब गरारी चरवाहों ने इसहाक के चरवाहों से झगड़ा किया, और कहा, कि यह जल हमारा है। सो उसने उस कुएं का नाम एसेक रखा इसलिये कि वे उससे झगड़े थे।
21 फिर उन्होंने दूसरा कुआं खोदा; और उन्होंने उसके लिये भी झगड़ा किया, सो उसने उसका नाम सित्रा रखा।
22 तब उसने वहां से कूच करके एक और कुआं खुदवाया; और उसके लिये उन्होंने झगड़ा न किया; सो उसने उसका नाम यह कह कर रहोबोत रखा, कि अब तो यहोवा ने हमारे लिये बहुत स्थान दिया है, और हम इस देश में फूलें-फलेंगे।
23 वहां से वह बेर्शेबा को गया।
24 और उसी दिन यहोवा ने रात को उसे दर्शन देकर कहा, मैं तेरे पिता इब्राहीम का परमेश्वर हूं; मत डर, क्योंकि मैं तेरे साथ हूं, और अपने दास इब्राहीम के कारण तुझे आशीष दूंगा, और तेरा वंश बढ़ाऊंगा
25 तब उसने वहां एक वेदी बनाई, और यहोवा से प्रार्थना की, और अपना तम्बू वहीं खड़ा किया; और वहां इसहाक के दासों ने एक कुआं खोदा।
26 तब अबीमेलेक अपने मित्र अहुज्जत, और अपने सेनापति पीकोल को संग ले कर, गरार से उसके पास गया।
27 इसहाक ने उन से कहा, तुम ने मुझ से बैर करके अपने बीच से निकाल दिया था; सो अब मेरे पास क्यों आए हो?
28 उन्होंने कहा, हम ने तो प्रत्यक्ष देखा है, कि यहोवा तेरे साथ रहता है: सो हम ने सोचा, कि तू तो यहोवा की ओर से धन्य है, सो हमारे तेरे बीच में शपथ खाई जाए, और हम तुझ से इस विषय की वाचा बन्धाएं;
29 कि जैसे हम ने तुझे नहीं छूआ, वरन तेरे साथ निरी भलाई की है, और तुझ को कुशल क्षेम से विदा किया, उसके अनुसार तू भी हम से कोई बुराई न करेगा।
30 तब उसने उनकी जेवनार की, और उन्होंने खाया पिया।
31 बिहान को उन सभों ने तड़के उठ कर आपस में शपथ खाई; तब इसहाक ने उन को विदा किया, और वे कुशल क्षेम से उसके पास से चले गए।
32 उसी दिन इसहाक के दासों ने आकर अपने उस खोदे हुए कुएं का वृत्तान्त सुना के कहा, कि हम को जल का एक सोता मिला है।
33 तब उसने उसका नाम शिबा रखा: इसी कारण उस नगर का नाम आज तक बेर्शेबा पड़ा है॥
34 जब ऐसाव चालीस वर्ष का हुआ, तब उसने हित्ती बेरी की बेटी यहूदीत, और हित्ती एलोन की बेटी बाशमत को ब्याह लिया।
35 और इन स्त्रियों के कारण इसहाक और रिबका के मन को खेद हुआ॥
1 And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
2 And the Lord appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:
3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;
4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
6 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:
7 And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.
8 And it came to pass, 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 sporting with Rebekah his wife.
9 And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife: and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.
10 And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.
11 And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him.
13 And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:
14 For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
15 For all the wells which his father’s servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.
16 And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.
17 And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
18 And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
19 And Isaac’s servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
20 And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac’s herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.
21 And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.
22 And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the Lord hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.
23 And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba.
24 And the Lord appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham’s sake.
25 And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac’s servants digged a well.
26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.
27 And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?
28 And they said, We saw certainly that the Lord was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;
29 That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the Lord.
30 And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
31 And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
32 And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.
33 And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day.
34 And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
35 Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
1 And he heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father’s; and of that which was our father’s hath he gotten all this glory.
2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.
3 And the Lord said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.
4 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock,
5 And said unto them, I see your father’s countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me.
6 And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.
7 And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
8 If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.
9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
10 And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked, speckled, and grisled.
11 And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob: And I said, Here am I.
12 And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
13 I am the God of Beth-el, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.
14 And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?
15 Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.
16 For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children’s: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.
17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;
18 And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padan-aram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
19 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father’s.
20 And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.
21 So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead.
22 And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.
23 And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days’ journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.
24 And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
25 Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead.
26 And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as captives taken with the sword?
27 Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?
28 And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.
29 It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
30 And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father’s house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?
31 And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from me.
32 With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.
33 And Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into the two maidservants’ tents; but he found them not. Then went he out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent.
34 Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel’s furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not.
35 And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images.
36 And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?
37 Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both.
38 This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.
39 That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night.
40 Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
41 Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
42 Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.
43 And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?
44 Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.
45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
46 And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap.
47 And Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.
48 And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
49 And Mizpah; for he said, The Lord watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.
50 If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.
51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee;
52 This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.
53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac.
54 Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount.
55 And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned unto his place.