AND in those days, after the death of Avraham, in that year Yahuah brought a heavy famine in the land, and while the famine was raging in the land of Kena`an, Yitschaq rose up to go down to Mitsrayim on account of the famine, as his father Avraham had done.
And Yahuah appeared that night to Yitschaq and he said to him, Do not go down to Mitsrayim but rise and go to Gerar, to Aviymelek king of the Pelishtiym, and remain there till the famine shall cease.
And Yitschaq rose up and went to Gerar, as Yahuah commanded him, and he remained there a full year.
And when Yitschaq came to Gerar, the people of the land saw that Rivqah his woman was of a beautiful appearance, and the people of Gerar asked Yitschaq concerning his woman, and he said, She is my sister, for he was afraid to say she was his woman lest the people of the land should slay him on account of her.
And the princes of Aviymelek went and praised the woman to the king, but he answered them not, neither did he attend to their words.
But he heard them say that Yitschaq declared her to be his sister, so the king reserved this within himself.
And when Yitschaq had remained three months in the land, Aviymelek looked out at the window, and he saw, and behold Yitschaq was sporting with Rivqah his woman, for Yitschaq dwelt in the outer house belonging to the king, so that the house of Yitschaq was opposite the house of the king.
And the king said unto Yitschaq, What is this you have done to us in saying of your woman, she is my sister? how easily might one of the great men of the people have lain with her, and you would then have brought guilt upon us.
And Yitschaq said unto Aviymelek, Because I was afraid lest I die on account of my woman, therefore I said, She is my sister.
At that time Aviymelek gave orders to all his princes and great men, and they took Yitschaq and Rivqah his woman and brought them before the king.
And the king commanded that they should dress them in princely garments, and make them ride through the streets of the city, and proclaim before them throughout the land, saying, This is the man and this is his woman; whosoever touches this man or his woman shall surely die. And Yitschaq returned with his woman to the king's house, and Yahuah was with Yitschaq and he continued to wax great and lacked nothing.
And Yahuah caused Yitschaq to find favor in the sight of Aviymelek, and in the sight of all his subjects, and Aviymelek acted well with Yitschaq, for Aviymelek remembered the oath and the covenant that existed between his father and Avraham.
And Aviymelek said unto Yitschaq, Behold the whole earth is before you; dwell wherever it may seem good in your sight until you shall return to your land; and Aviymelek gave Yitschaq fields and vineyards and the best part of the land of Gerar, to sow and reap and eat the fruits of the ground until the days of the famine should have passed by.
And Yitschaq sowed in that land, and received a hundredfold in the same year, and Yahuah blessed him.
And the man waxed great, and he had possession of flocks and possession of herds and great store of servants.
And when the days of the famine had passed away Yahuah appeared to Yitschaq and said unto him, Rise up, go forth from this place and return to your land, to the land of Kena`an; and Yitschaq rose up and returned to Chevron which is in the land of Kena`an, he and all belonging to him as Yahuah commanded him.
And after this Shelach the son of Arpakshad died in that year, which is the eighteenth year of the lives of Ya`aqov and Esau; and all the days that Shelach lived were four hundred and thirty three years and he died.
At that time Yitschaq sent his younger son Ya`aqov to the house of Shem and Eber, and he learned the instructions of Yahuah, and Ya`aqov remained in the house of Shem and Eber for thirty two years, and Esau his brother did not go, for he was not willing to go, and he remained in his father's house in the land of Kena`an.
And Esau was continually hunting in the fields to bring home what he could get, so did Esau all the days.
And Esau was a designing and deceitful man, one who hunted after the hearts of men and inveigled them, and Esau was a valiant man in the field, and in the course of time went as usual to hunt; and he came as far as the field of Se'iyr, the same is Edom.
And he remained in the land of Se'iyr hunting in the field a year and four months.
And Esau there saw in the land of Se`iyr the daughter of a man of Kena`an, and her name was Yahudith, the daughter of Be`eriy, son of Epher, from the families of Cheth the son of Kena`an.
And Esau took her for a woman, and he came unto her; forty years old was Esau when he took her, and he brought her to Chevron, the land of his father's dwelling place, and he dwelt there.
And it came to pass in those days, in the hundred and tenth year of the life of Yitschaq, that is in the fiftieth year of the life of Ya`aqov, in that year died Shem the son of Noach; Shem was six hundred years old at his death.
And when Shem died Ya`aqov returned to his father to Chevron which is in the land of Kena`an.
And in the fifty sixth year of the life of Ya`aqov, people came from Haran, and Rivqah was told concerning her brother Lavan the son of Bethu'el.
For the woman of Lavan was barren in those days, and bore no children, and also all his handmaids bore none to him.
And Yahuah afterward remembered Adiynah the woman of Lavan, and she conceived and bore twin daughters, and Lavan called the names of his daughters, the name of the elder Le'ah, and the name of the younger Rachel.
And those people came and told these things to Rivqah, and Rivqah rejoiced greatly that Yahuah had visited her brother and that he had got children.