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# Genesis 26

Genesis 26 is chapter 26 of 50 in the Book of Genesis. Here are all 35 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Isaac sojourneth in Gerara, where God reneweth to him the promise made to Abraham. King Abimelech maketh league with him.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Genesis 26 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Then, when a famine arose over the land, after that barrenness which had happened in the days of Abraham, Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Palestinians, in Gerar.
2. And the Lord appeared to him, and he said: “Do not descend into Egypt, but rest in the land that I will tell you,
3. and sojourn in it, and I will be with you, and I will bless you. For to you and to your offspring I will give all these regions, completing the oath that I promised to Abraham your father.
4. And I will multiply your offspring like the stars of heaven. And I will give to your posterity all these regions. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed,
5. because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my precepts and commandments, and observed the ceremonies and the laws.”
6. And so Isaac remained in Gerar.
7. And when he was questioned by the men of that place about his wife, he answered, “She is my sister.” For he was afraid to confess her to be his mate, thinking that perhaps they would put him to death because of her beauty.
8. And when very many days had passed, and he had remained in the same place, Abimelech, king of the Palestinians, gazing through a window, saw him being playful with Rebekah, his wife.
9. And summoning him, he said: “It is clear that she is your wife. Why did you falsely claim her to be your sister?” He answered, “I was afraid, lest I might die because of her.”
10. And Abimelech said: “Why have you burdened us? Someone from the people could have lain with your wife, and you would have brought a great sin upon us.” And he instructed all the people, saying,
11. “Whoever will touch the wife of this man will die a death.”
12. Then Isaac sowed in that land, and he found, in that same year, one hundredfold. And the Lord blessed him.
13. And the man was enriched, and he continued prospering as well as increasing, until he became very great.
14. Likewise, he had possessions of sheep and of herds, and a very large family. Because of this, the Palestinians envied him,
15. so, at that time, they obstructed all the wells that the servants of his father Abraham had dug, filling them with soil.
16. It reached a point where Abimelech himself said to Isaac, “Move away from us, for you have become very much more powerful than we.”
17. And departing, he then went toward the torrent of Gerar, and he dwelt there.
18. Again, he dug up other wells, which the servants of his father Abraham had dug, and which, after his death, the Philistines had formerly obstructed. And he called them by the same names that his father had called them before.
19. And they dug in the torrent, and they found living water.
20. But in that place also the shepherds of Gerar argued against the shepherds of Isaac, by saying, “It is our water.” For this reason, he called the name of the well, because of what had happened, ‘Calumny.’
21. Then they dug up yet another one. And over that one also they fought, and he called it, ‘Enmity.’
22. Advancing from there, he dug another well, over which they did not contend. And so he called its name, ‘Latitude,’ saying, “Now the Lord has expanded us and caused us to increase across the land.”
23. Then he ascended from that place into Beersheba,
24. where the Lord appeared to him on the same night, saying: “I am the God of Abraham your father. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you, and I will multiply your offspring because of my servant Abraham.”
25. And so he built an altar there. And he invoked the name of the Lord, and he stretched out his tent. And he instructed his servants to dig a well.
26. When Abimelech, and Ahuzzath, his friend, and Phicol, the leader of the military, had arrived from Gerar to that place,
27. Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, a man whom you hate, and whom you have expelled from among you?”
28. And they responded: “We saw that the Lord is with you, and therefore we said: Let there be an oath between us, and let us initiate a pact,
29. so that you may not do us any kind of harm, just as we have touched nothing of yours, and have not caused any injury to you, but with peace we released you, augmented by the blessing of the Lord.”
30. Therefore, he made them a feast, and after the food and drink,
31. arising in the morning, they swore to one another. And Isaac sent them away peacefully to their own place.
32. Then, behold, on the same day the servants of Isaac came, reporting to him about a well which they had dug, and saying: “We have found water.”
33. Therefore, he called it, ‘Abundance.’ And the name of the city was established as ‘Beersheba,’ even to the present day.
34. In truth, at forty years of age, Esau took wives: Judith, the daughter of Beeri, the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon, of the same place.
35. And they both offended the mind of Isaac and Rebekah.

## Genesis 26 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Orta autem fame super terram post eam sterilitatem, quæ acciderat in diebus Abraham, abiit Isaac ad Abimelech regem Palæstinorum in Gerara.
2. Apparuitque ei Dominus, et ait: Ne descendas in Ægyptum, sed quiesce 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 juramentum quod spopondi Abraham patri tuo.
4. Et multiplicabo semen tuum sicut stellas cæli: daboque posteris tuis universas regiones has: et benedicentur in semine tuo omnes gentes terræ,
5. eo quod obedierit Abraham voci meæ, et custodierit præcepta et mandata mea, et cæremonias 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 conjugio, reputans ne forte interficerent eum propter illius pulchritudinem.
8. Cumque pertransissent dies plurimi, et ibidem moraretur, prospiciens Abimelech rex Palæstinorum per fenestram, vidit eum jocantem 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 imposuisti nobis? potuit coire quispiam de populo cum uxore tua, et induxeras super nos grande peccatum. Præcepitque omni populo, dicens:
11. Qui tetigerit hominis hujus uxorem, 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. habuit quoque possessiones ovium et armentorum, et familiæ plurimum. Ob hoc invidentes ei Palæstini,
15. omnes puteos, quos foderant servi patris illius Abraham, illo tempore obstruxerunt, implentes humo:
16. in tantum, ut ipse Abimelech diceret ad Isaac: Recede a nobis, quoniam potentior nobis factus es valde.
17. Et ille discedens, ut veniret ad torrentem Geraræ, habitaretque ibi,
18. rursum fodit alios puteos, quos foderant servi patris sui Abraham, et quos, illo mortuo, olim obstruxerant Philisthiim: appellavitque eos eisdem nominibus quibus ante pater vocaverat.
19. Foderuntque in torrente, et repererunt aquam vivam.
20. Sed et ibi jurgium fuit pastorum Geraræ adversus pastores Isaac, dicentium: Nostra est aqua, quam ob rem nomen putei ex eo, quod acciderat, vocavit Calumniam.
21. Foderunt autem et alium: et pro illo quoque rixati sunt, appellavitque eum Inimicitias.
22. Profectus inde fodit alium puteum, pro quo non contenderunt: itaque vocavit nomen ejus Latitudo, dicens: Nunc dilatavit nos Dominus, et fecit crescere super terram.
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 ego tecum sum: benedicam tibi, et multiplicabo semen tuum propter servum meum Abraham.
25. Itaque ædificavit ibi altare: et invocato nomine Domini, extendit tabernaculum, præcepitque servis suis ut foderent puteum.
26. Ad quem locum cum venissent de Geraris Abimelech, et Ochozath amicus illius, et Phicol dux militum,
27. locutus est eis Isaac: Quid venistis ad me, hominem quem odistis, et expulistis a vobis?
28. Qui responderunt: Vidimus tecum esse Dominum, et idcirco nos diximus: Sit juramentum inter nos, et ineamus fœdus,
29. ut non facias nobis quidquam mali, sicut et nos nihil tuorum attigimus, nec fecimus quod te læderet: sed cum pace dimisimus auctum benedictione Domini.
30. Fecit ergo eis convivium, et post cibum et potum
31. surgentes mane, juraverunt sibi mutuo: dimisitque eos Isaac pacifice in locum suum.
32. Ecce autem venerunt in ipso die servi Isaac annuntiantes ei de puteo, quem foderant, atque dicentes: Invenimus aquam.
33. Unde appellavit eum Abundantiam: et nomen urbi impositum est Bersabee, usque in præsentem diem.
34. Esau vero quadragenarius duxit uxores, Judith filiam Beeri Hethæi, et Basemath filiam Elon ejusdem loci:
35. quæ ambæ offenderant animum Isaac et Rebeccæ.

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 19: “Torrent” … That is, a channel where sometimes a torrent or violent stream had run.
- Verse 22: “Latitude” … That is, wideness, or room.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).