ECB(i)
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YISCHAQ AND ABI MELECH
And there is a famine in the land, apart from the first famine in the days of Abraham: and Yischaq goes to Abi Melech sovereign of the Peleshethiym to Gerar. 2 And Yah Veh is seen by him and says, Descend not into Misrayim; tabernacle in the land I say: 3 sojourn in this land and I AM with you and bless you; for I give all these lands to you and to your seed and I raise the oath I oathed to Abraham your father 4 and I abound your seed as the stars of the heavens and give all these countries to your seed: and in your seed all the goyim of the earth bless themselves 5 - because Abraham heard my voice and guarded my guard, my misvoth, my statutes and my torahs. 6 And Yischaq settles in Gerar: 7 and the men of the place ask him of his woman; and he says, My sister: for he awes to say, My woman; lest the men of the place slaughter me for Ribqah; because she is of good visage. 8 And so be it, as his days prolong, Abi Melech sovereign of the Peleshethiym looks through a window and sees, and behold, Yischaq entertaining with Ribqah his woman: 9 and Abi Melech calls Yischaq and says, Behold, surely she is your woman: and how say you, She is my sister? And Yischaq says to him, Because, I say, Lest I die for her. 10 And Abi Melech says, What is this you work to us? Had one of the people lain with your woman, you had brought guiltiness on us. 11 And Abi Melech misvahs all his people, saying, Whoever touches this man or his woman in deathifying, deathify him. 12 Then Yischaq seeds in that land and in the same year finds a hundredfold: and Yah Veh blesses him. 13 And the man greatens and in walking, he walks; and in greatening, he greatens: 14 and he has chattel of flocks and chattel of oxen and great servantry: and the Peleshethiym envy him. 15 For all the wells the servants of his father dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Peleshethiym stopped them and filled them with dust. 16 And Abi Melech says to Yischaq, Go from us; for you become mightily mightier than we. 17 And Yischaq goes from there and encamps in the wadi of Gerar and settles there: 18 and Yischaq returns and digs the wells of water, which they dug in the days of Abraham his father; for the Peleshethiym stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he calls their names after the names his father called them. 19 And the servants of Yischaq dig in the wadi and find there a well of living water: 20 and the tenders of Gerar strive with the tenders of Yischaq, saying, The water is ours: and he calls the name of the well Eseq/Strife; because they contend with him: 21 and they dig another well and strive for that also: and he calls the name thereof Sitnah/Opposition: 22 and he removes from there and digs another well; and for that they strive not: and he calls the name thereof Rechovoth/Wideway; and he says, At this time Yah Veh widens for us and we bear fruit in the land. 23 And he ascends from there to Beer Sheba: 24 and Yah Veh appears to him the same night and says, I - Elohim of Abraham your father: awe not, for I am with you and bless you and abound your seed for sake of my servant Abraham. 25 And he builds a sacrifice altar there and calls on the name of Yah Veh and spreads his tent there: and there the servants of Yischaq dig a well.
THE COVENANT OF YISCHAQ WITH ABI MELECH
26 Then Abi Melech goes to him from Gerar with Achuz Zath one of his companions and Pichol the governor of his host. 27 And Yischaq says to them, Why come to me, seeing you hate me and sent me away from you? 28 And they say, In seeing, we see Yah Veh is with you: and we say, Let there become, I beseech, an oath between us - between us and you and that we cut a covenant with you 29 that you work us no evil: as we touched you not and as we worked only good to you and sent you away in shalom: you are at this time the blessed of Yah Veh. 30 And he works them a banquet and they eat and drink: 31 and in the morning they rise and oath man to brother: and Yischaq sends them away and they go from him in shalom. 32 And so be it, the same day, the servants of Yischaq come and tell him concerning the well they dug and say to him, We found water. 33 And he called it Shibah/Seven: so the name of the city is Beer Sheba/Well Seven* to this day. *Seven, as in an oath 34 And Esav is a son of forty years when he takes to woman Yah Hudith the daughter of Beeri the Hethiy and Bosmath the daughter of Elon the Hethiy: 35 who are a bitter spirit to Yischaq and to Ribqah.
YISCHAQ AND ABI MELECH
And there is a famine in the land, apart from the first famine in the days of Abraham: and Yischaq goes to Abi Melech sovereign of the Peleshethiym to Gerar. 2 And Yah Veh is seen by him and says, Descend not into Misrayim; tabernacle in the land I say: 3 sojourn in this land and I AM with you and bless you; for I give all these lands to you and to your seed and I raise the oath I oathed to Abraham your father 4 and I abound your seed as the stars of the heavens and give all these countries to your seed: and in your seed all the goyim of the earth bless themselves 5 - because Abraham heard my voice and guarded my guard, my misvoth, my statutes and my torahs. 6 And Yischaq settles in Gerar: 7 and the men of the place ask him of his woman; and he says, My sister: for he awes to say, My woman; lest the men of the place slaughter me for Ribqah; because she is of good visage. 8 And so be it, as his days prolong, Abi Melech sovereign of the Peleshethiym looks through a window and sees, and behold, Yischaq entertaining with Ribqah his woman: 9 and Abi Melech calls Yischaq and says, Behold, surely she is your woman: and how say you, She is my sister? And Yischaq says to him, Because, I say, Lest I die for her. 10 And Abi Melech says, What is this you work to us? Had one of the people lain with your woman, you had brought guiltiness on us. 11 And Abi Melech misvahs all his people, saying, Whoever touches this man or his woman in deathifying, deathify him. 12 Then Yischaq seeds in that land and in the same year finds a hundredfold: and Yah Veh blesses him. 13 And the man greatens and in walking, he walks; and in greatening, he greatens: 14 and he has chattel of flocks and chattel of oxen and great servantry: and the Peleshethiym envy him. 15 For all the wells the servants of his father dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Peleshethiym stopped them and filled them with dust. 16 And Abi Melech says to Yischaq, Go from us; for you become mightily mightier than we. 17 And Yischaq goes from there and encamps in the wadi of Gerar and settles there: 18 and Yischaq returns and digs the wells of water, which they dug in the days of Abraham his father; for the Peleshethiym stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he calls their names after the names his father called them. 19 And the servants of Yischaq dig in the wadi and find there a well of living water: 20 and the tenders of Gerar strive with the tenders of Yischaq, saying, The water is ours: and he calls the name of the well Eseq/Strife; because they contend with him: 21 and they dig another well and strive for that also: and he calls the name thereof Sitnah/Opposition: 22 and he removes from there and digs another well; and for that they strive not: and he calls the name thereof Rechovoth/Wideway; and he says, At this time Yah Veh widens for us and we bear fruit in the land. 23 And he ascends from there to Beer Sheba: 24 and Yah Veh appears to him the same night and says, I - Elohim of Abraham your father: awe not, for I am with you and bless you and abound your seed for sake of my servant Abraham. 25 And he builds a sacrifice altar there and calls on the name of Yah Veh and spreads his tent there: and there the servants of Yischaq dig a well.
THE COVENANT OF YISCHAQ WITH ABI MELECH
26 Then Abi Melech goes to him from Gerar with Achuz Zath one of his companions and Pichol the governor of his host. 27 And Yischaq says to them, Why come to me, seeing you hate me and sent me away from you? 28 And they say, In seeing, we see Yah Veh is with you: and we say, Let there become, I beseech, an oath between us - between us and you and that we cut a covenant with you 29 that you work us no evil: as we touched you not and as we worked only good to you and sent you away in shalom: you are at this time the blessed of Yah Veh. 30 And he works them a banquet and they eat and drink: 31 and in the morning they rise and oath man to brother: and Yischaq sends them away and they go from him in shalom. 32 And so be it, the same day, the servants of Yischaq come and tell him concerning the well they dug and say to him, We found water. 33 And he called it Shibah/Seven: so the name of the city is Beer Sheba/Well Seven* to this day. *Seven, as in an oath 34 And Esav is a son of forty years when he takes to woman Yah Hudith the daughter of Beeri the Hethiy and Bosmath the daughter of Elon the Hethiy: 35 who are a bitter spirit to Yischaq and to Ribqah.