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1 orta autem fame super terram post eam sterilitatem quae acciderat in diebus Abraham abiit Isaac ad Abimelech regem Palestinorum in Gerara
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Now there was a famine in the land—besides the previous famine in Abraham’s time—and Isaac went to Abimelek king of the Philistines in Gerar.
2 apparuitque ei Dominus et ait ne descendas in Aegyptum sed quiesce in terra quam dixero tibi
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The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land where I tell you to live.
3 et peregrinare in ea eroque tecum et benedicam tibi tibi enim et semini tuo dabo universas regiones has conplens iuramentum quod spopondi Abraham patri tuo
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Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham.
4 et multiplicabo semen tuum sicut stellas caeli daboque posteris tuis universas regiones has et benedicentur in semine tuo omnes gentes terrae
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I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed,
5 eo quod oboedierit Abraham voci meae et custodierit praecepta et mandata mea et caerimonias legesque servaverit
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because Abraham obeyed me and did everything I required of him, keeping my commands, my decrees and my instructions.”
6 mansit itaque Isaac in Geraris
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So Isaac stayed in Gerar.
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
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When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” because he was afraid to say, “She is my wife.” He thought, “The men of this place might kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is beautiful.”
8 cumque pertransissent dies plurimi et ibi demoraretur prospiciens Abimelech Palestinorum rex per fenestram vidit eum iocantem cum Rebecca uxore sua
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When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelek king of the Philistines looked down from a window and saw Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.
9 et accersito ait perspicuum est quod uxor tua sit cur mentitus es sororem tuam esse respondit timui ne morerer propter eam
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So Abimelek summoned Isaac and said, “She is really your wife! Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac answered him, “Because I thought I might lose my life on account of her.”
10 dixitque Abimelech quare inposuisti nobis potuit coire quispiam de populo cum uxore tua et induxeras super nos grande peccatum praecepitque omni populo dicens
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Then Abimelek said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the men might well have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”
11 qui tetigerit hominis huius uxorem morte morietur
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So Abimelek gave orders to all the people: “Anyone who harms this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.”
12 seruit autem Isaac in terra illa et invenit in ipso anno centuplum benedixitque ei Dominus
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Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a hundredfold, because the LORD blessed him.
13 et locupletatus est homo et ibat proficiens atque succrescens donec magnus vehementer effectus est
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The man became rich, and his wealth continued to grow until he became very wealthy.
14 habuit quoque possessionem ovium et armentorum et familiae plurimum ob haec invidentes ei Palestini
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He had so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him.
15 omnes puteos quos foderant servi patris illius Abraham illo tempore obstruxerunt implentes humo
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So all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the time of his father Abraham, the Philistines stopped up, filling them with earth.
16 in tantum ut ipse Abimelech diceret ad Isaac recede a nobis quoniam potentior nostri factus es valde
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Then Abimelek said to Isaac, “Move away from us; you have become too powerful for us.”
17 et ille discedens veniret ad torrentem Gerarae habitaretque ibi
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So Isaac moved away from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar, where he settled.
18 rursum fodit alios puteos quos foderant servi patris sui Abraham et quos illo mortuo olim obstruxerant Philisthim appellavitque eos hisdem nominibus quibus ante pater vocaverat
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Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the time of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died, and he gave them the same names his father had given them.
19 foderunt in torrente et reppererunt aquam vivam
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Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of fresh water there.
20 sed et ibi iurgium fuit pastorum Gerarae adversum pastores Isaac dicentium nostra est aqua quam ob rem nomen putei ex eo quod acciderat vocavit Calumniam
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But the herders of Gerar quarreled with those of Isaac and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek, because they disputed with him.
21 foderunt et alium et pro illo quoque rixati sunt appellavitque eum Inimicitias
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Then they dug another well, but they quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.
22 profectus inde fodit alium puteum pro quo non contenderunt itaque vocavit nomen illius Latitudo dicens nunc dilatavit nos Dominus et fecit crescere super terram
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He moved on from there and dug another well, and no one quarreled over it. He named it Rehoboth, saying, “Now the LORD has given us room and we will flourish in the land.”
23 ascendit autem ex illo loco in Bersabee
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From there he went up to Beersheba.
24 ubi apparuit ei Dominus in ipsa nocte dicens ego sum Deus Abraham patris tui noli metuere quia tecum sum benedicam tibi et multiplicabo semen tuum propter servum meum Abraham
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That night the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bless you and will increase the number of your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham.”
25 itaque aedificavit ibi altare et invocato nomine Domini extendit tabernaculum praecepitque servis suis ut foderent puteum
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Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD. There he pitched his tent, and there his servants dug a well.
26 ad quem locum cum venissent de Geraris Abimelech et Ochozath amicus illius et Fichol dux militum
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Meanwhile, Abimelek had come to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his personal adviser and Phicol the commander of his forces.
27 locutus est eis Isaac quid venistis ad me hominem quem odistis et expulistis a vobis
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Isaac asked them, “Why have you come to me, since you were hostile to me and sent me away?”
28 qui responderunt vidimus tecum esse Dominum et idcirco nunc diximus sit iuramentum inter nos et ineamus foedus
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They answered, “We saw clearly that the LORD was with you; so we said, ‘There ought to be a sworn agreement between us’—between us and you. Let us make a treaty with you
29 ut non facias nobis quicquam mali sicut et nos nihil tuorum adtigimus nec fecimus quod te laederet sed cum pace dimisimus auctum benedictione Domini
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that you will do us no harm, just as we did not harm you but always treated you well and sent you away peacefully. And now you are blessed by the LORD.”
30 fecit ergo eis convivium et post cibum et potum
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Isaac then made a feast for them, and they ate and drank.
31 surgentes mane iuraverunt sibi mutuo dimisitque eos Isaac pacifice in locum suum
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Early the next morning the men swore an oath to each other. Then Isaac sent them on their way, and they went away peacefully.
32 ecce autem venerunt in ipso die servi Isaac adnuntiantes ei de puteo quem foderant atque dicentes invenimus aquam
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That day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. They said, “We’ve found water!”
33 unde appellavit eum Abundantiam et nomen urbi inpositum est Bersabee usque in praesentem diem
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He called it Shibah, and to this day the name of the town has been Beersheba.
34 Esau vero quadragenarius duxit uxores Iudith filiam Beeri Hetthei et Basemath filiam Helon eiusdem loci
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When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and also Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.
35 quae ambae offenderant animum Isaac et Rebeccae
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They were a source of grief to Isaac and Rebekah.
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