Liber Genesis

Genesis, chapter 26, Vulgate and King James Version

Chapter 26 Vulgate

   1 Orta autem fame super terram post eam sterilitatem, quae acciderat in diebus Abraham, abiit Isaac ad Abimelech regem Philisthim in Gerara.
   2 Apparuitque ei Dominus et ait: "Ne descendas in Aegyptum, sed habita in terra, quam dixero tibi,
   3 et peregrinare in ea; eroque tecum et benedicam tibi. Tibi enim et semini tuo dabo universas regiones has complens iuramentum, quod spopondi Abraham patri tuo,
   4 et multiplicabo semen tuum sicut stellas caeli daboque posteris tuis universas regiones has; et benedicentur in semine tuo omnes gentes terrae,
   5 eo quod oboedierit Abraham voci meae et custodierit praecepta et mandata mea et iustificationes legesque servaverit"
   6 Mansit itaque Isaac in Geraris.
   7 Qui, cum interrogaretur a viris loci illius super uxore sua, respondit: "Soror mea est" Timuerat enim confiteri quod sibi esset sociata coniugio, reputans ne forte interficerent eum propter illius pulchritudinem.
   8 Cumque pertransissent dies plurimi et ibidem moraretur, prospiciens Abimelech rex Philisthim per fenestram vidit eum iocantem cum Rebecca uxore sua.
   9 Et, accersito eo, ait: "Perspicuum est quod uxor tua sit; cur mentitus es eam sororem tuam esse?" Respondit: "Timui, ne morerer propter eam"
   10 Dixitque Abimelech: "Quare hoc fecisti nobis? Potuit coire quispiam de populo cum uxore tua, et induxeras super nos grande peccatum" Praecepitque omni populo dicens:
   11 "Qui tetigerit hominem hunc et uxorem eius, morte morietur"
   12 Sevit autem Isaac in terra illa et invenit in ipso anno centuplum; benedixitque ei Dominus.
   13 Et locupletatus est homo et ibat proficiens atque succrescens, donec magnus vehementer effectus est;
   14 habuitque possessionem ovium et armentorum et familiae plurimum. Ob haec invidentes ei Philisthim
   15 omnes puteos, quos foderant servi patris illius in diebus Abraham, obstruxerunt implentes humo,
   16 in tantum ut ipse Abimelech diceret ad Isaac: "Recede a nobis, quoniam potentior nostri factus es valde"
   17 Et ille discedens tentoria fixit ad torrentem Gerarae habitavitque ibi.
   18 Rursum fodit puteos, quos foderant in diebus patris sui Abraham et quos, illo mortuo, obstruxerant Philisthim. Appellavitque eos eisdem nominibus, quibus ante pater vocaverat.
   19 Foderunt servi Isaac in torrente et reppererunt ibi puteum aquae vivae.
   20 Sed et ibi iurgium fuit pastorum Gerarae adversus pastores Isaac dicentium: "Nostra est aqua!" Quam ob rem nomen putei vocavit Esec (id est Iurgium), quia iurgati sunt cum eo.
   21 Foderunt autem et alium puteum, et pro illo quoque rixati sunt; appellavitque eum Sitna (id est Inimicitias).
   22 Profectus inde fodit alium puteum, pro quo non contenderunt; itaque vocavit nomen eius Rehoboth (id est Latitudinem) dicens: "Nunc dilatavit nos Dominus, et crescemus in terra"
   23 Ascendit autem ex illo loco in Bersabee,
   24 ubi apparuit ei Dominus in ipsa nocte dicens: "Ego sum Deus Abraham patris tui. Noli timere, quia tecum sum; benedicam tibi et multiplicabo semen tuum propter servum meum Abraham"
   25 Itaque aedificavit ibi altare et, invocato nomine Domini, extendit tabernaculum, et servi Isaac foderunt ibi puteum.
   26 Abimelech autem venit ad eum de Geraris et Ochozath amicus illius et Phicol dux militum,
   27 et locutus est eis Isaac: "Quid venistis ad me hominem, quem odistis et expulistis a vobis?"
   28 Qui responderunt: "Vidimus tecum esse Dominum et idcirco diximus: Sit iuramentum inter nos et te, et ineamus tecum foedus,
   29 ut non facias nobis quidquam mali, sicut et nos non attigimus te et nihil fecimus tibi nisi bonum et cum pace dimisimus te. Tu es enim benedictus Domini"
   30 Fecit ergo eis convivium, et comederunt et biberunt.
   31 Surgentesque mane iuraverunt sibi mutuo. Dimisitque eos Isaac, et profecti sunt ab eo cum pace.
   32 Ecce autem venerunt in ipso die servi Isaac annuntiantes ei de puteo, quem foderant, atque dicentes: "Invenimus aquam"
   33 Unde appellavit eum Sabee (quod significat Abundantiam); et nomen urbi impositum est Bersabee usque in praesentem diem.
   34 Esau vero quadragenarius duxit uxores Iudith filiam Beeri Hetthaei et Basemath filiam Elon Hetthaei.
   35 Quae ambae offenderant animum Isaac et Rebeccae.

Source: Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio, Sacrosanti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II, Ratione Habita, Iussu Pauli PP. VI Recognita, Auctoritate Ioannis Pauli PP. II Promulgata, Editio Typica Altera

King James Version

   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 our's: 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.