Genesis 26:12
New International Version
Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a hundredfold, because the LORD blessed him.

New Living Translation
When Isaac planted his crops that year, he harvested a hundred times more grain than he planted, for the LORD blessed him.

English Standard Version
And Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. The LORD blessed him,

Berean Standard Bible
Now Isaac sowed seed in the land, and that very year he reaped a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him,

King James Bible
Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.

New King James Version
Then Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year a hundredfold; and the LORD blessed him.

New American Standard Bible
Now Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundred times as much. And the LORD blessed him,

NASB 1995
Now Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him,

NASB 1977
Now Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him,

Legacy Standard Bible
And Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year one hundredfold. And Yahweh blessed him,

Amplified Bible
Then Isaac planted [seed] in that land [as a farmer] and reaped in the same year a hundred times [as much as he had planted], and the LORD blessed and favored him.

Christian Standard Bible
Isaac sowed seed in that land, and in that year he reaped a hundred times what was sown. The LORD blessed him,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Isaac sowed seed in that land, and in that year he reaped a hundred times what was sown. The LORD blessed him,

American Standard Version
And Isaac sowed in that land, and found in the same year a hundredfold: and Jehovah blessed him.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And Isaaq sowed in the land and he found in that year a hundredfold of barley and LORD JEHOVAH blessed him.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And Isaac sowed in that land, and he found in that year barley and hundred-fold, and the Lord blessed him.

Contemporary English Version
Isaac planted grain and had a good harvest that same year. The LORD blessed him,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Isaac sowed in that land, and he found that same year a hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him.

English Revised Version
And Isaac sowed in that land, and found in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Isaac planted [crops] in that land. In that same year he harvested a hundred times as much as he had planted because the LORD had blessed him.

Good News Translation
Isaac sowed crops in that land, and that year he harvested a hundred times as much as he had sown, because the LORD blessed him.

International Standard Version
Isaac received a 100-fold return on what he planted that year in the land he received, because the LORD blessed him.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And Isaac sowed in that land, and found in the same year a hundred-fold; and the LORD blessed him.

Literal Standard Version
And Isaac sows in that land, and finds in that year a hundredfold, and YHWH blesses him;

Majority Standard Bible
Now Isaac sowed seed in the land, and that very year he reaped a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him,

New American Bible
Isaac sowed a crop in that region and reaped a hundredfold the same year. Since the LORD blessed him,

NET Bible
When Isaac planted in that land, he reaped in the same year a hundred times what he had sown, because the LORD blessed him.

New Revised Standard Version
Isaac sowed seed in that land, and in the same year reaped a hundredfold. The LORD blessed him,

New Heart English Bible
Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. The LORD blessed him.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year a hundred-fold: and the LORD blessed him:

World English Bible
Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.

Young's Literal Translation
And Isaac soweth in that land, and findeth in that year a hundredfold, and Jehovah blesseth him;

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Isaac's Prosperity
12Now Isaac sowed seed in the land, and that very year he reaped a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him, 13and he became richer and richer, until he was exceedingly wealthy.…

Cross References
Matthew 13:8
Still other seed fell on good soil and produced a crop--a hundredfold, sixtyfold, or thirtyfold.

Genesis 24:1
By now Abraham was old and well along in years, and the LORD had blessed him in every way.

Genesis 26:3
Stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.

Job 42:12
So the LORD blessed Job's latter days more than his first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

Proverbs 10:22
The blessing of the LORD enriches, and He adds no sorrow to it.


Treasury of Scripture

Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundred times: and the LORD blessed him.

sowed.

received.

Psalm 67:6
Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us.

Psalm 72:16
There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

Ecclesiastes 11:6
In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.

blessed.

Genesis 26:3,29
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; …

Genesis 24:1,35
And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things…

Genesis 30:30
For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?

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Genesis 26
1. Isaac, because of famine, sojourns in Gerar, and the Lord blesses him.
7. He is reproved by Abimelech for denying his wife.
12. He grows rich, and the Philistines envy his prosperity.
18. He digs wells.
23. God appears to him at Beersheba, and blesses him;
26. and Abimelech makes a covenant with him.
34. Esau's wives.














(12) Isaac sowed in that land.--When Abraham planted a tamarisk-tree at Beer-sheba (Genesis 21:33) it showed that he regarded the place as a permanent residence, which it was worth his while to adorn, and to provide for its increasing pleasantness. Isaac and Jacob took a still further step in advance towards a settled life when they began to cultivate plots of ground. At first, however, Isaac did no more than the Bedaween do at present; for they often sow a piece of land, wait till the crop is ripe, and then resume their roving habits. Permanently to till the soil is with them a mark of inferiority (Genesis 25:16). But the tendency, both with Abraham and Isaac, had long been to remain in the region about Beer-sheba. Isaac had been driven thence by the famine, by which he had probably lost much of his cattle, and many even of his people. Apparently he was even so weakened thereby as to be no match for the Philistines of Gerar. His large harvest recouped him for his losses, and made him once more a prosperous man; and in due time Beer-sheba was again his home, and with settled habits agriculture was�sure to begin.

An hundredfold.--The Heb. is, a hundred measures, but the word is unknown elsewhere, and the LXX. and Syriac read, a hundred of barley, measures being understood, as in Ruth 3:15. Herodotus (Book i. 193) mentions two--and even three--hundredfold as possible in Babylonia; but our Lord seems to give one hundredfold as the extreme measure of productiveness in Palestine (Matthew 13:8). Such a return, like Isaac's, would be rare and extraordinary.

Verse 12. - Then Isaac sowed in that land, - viz., Philistia. Though a distinct advance on the purely nomadic life pursued by Abraham, this did not imply fixed property in, or even permanent settlement on, the soil, "but only annual tenancy" thereof. Robinson (1. 77) mentions a colony of the Tawarah Arabs, about fifty families, living near Abu Zabel, in Egypt, who cultivated the soil and yet dwelt in tents. "The Biblical patriarchs were not mere Bedawin wanderers, like those who now occupy the Eastern deserts. They had large herds of cattle, which genuine Bedawins have not; they tilled the ground, which these robbers never do; and they accommodated themselves, without difficulty or reluctance, to town and city when necessary, which wild Arabs cannot endure" ('Land and Book,' p. 296) - and received in the same year an hundred-fold - literally, an hundred measures, i.e. for each measure of that which he sowed; an exceptional return even for Philistia, though "the country is no less fertile than the very best of the Mississippi Valley" ('Land and Book,' p. 557); and Arab grain stores at Nuttar-abu-Sumar, in the vicinity of Gaza, still proclaim the remunerative yield of its harvests (Robinson, vol. 1. p. 292). Herodotus (1. 193) speaks of two and three hundred-fold as having been reaped on the plain of Babylonia; but in Palestine the usual rate of increase was from thirty to a hundred-fold (vide Matthew 13:23). The reading "an hundred of barley" (LXX., Syriac, Michaelis) is not to be preferred to that in the Textus Receptus. And the Lord blessed him - as he had promised (ver. 3).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Now Isaac
יִצְחָק֙ (yiṣ·ḥāq)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3327: Isaac -- 'he laughs', son of Abraham and Sarah

sowed seed
וַיִּזְרַ֤ע (way·yiz·ra‘)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2232: To sow, to disseminate, plant, fructify

in the
הַהִ֔וא (ha·hi·w)
Article | Pronoun - third person feminine singular
Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

land,
בָּאָ֣רֶץ (bā·’ā·reṣ)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

and in that very
הַהִ֖וא (ha·hi·w)
Article | Pronoun - third person feminine singular
Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

year
בַּשָּׁנָ֥ה (baš·šā·nāh)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8141: A year

he reaped
וַיִּמְצָ֛א (way·yim·ṣā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 4672: To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present

a hundredfold.
מֵאָ֣ה (mê·’āh)
Number - feminine singular
Strong's 3967: A hundred

And the LORD
יְהוָֽה׃ (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

blessed him,
וַֽיְבָרֲכֵ֖הוּ (way·ḇā·ră·ḵê·hū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1288: To kneel, to bless God, man, to curse


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