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And there
was a famine in the land, beside the first famine
that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went
unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto
Gerar.
02 And the Lord appeared unto him, and
said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land
which I shall tell thee of:
03 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;
04 And I will make thy seed to multiply as
the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed
all these countries; and in thy seed shall all
the nations of the earth be blessed;
05 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice,
and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes,
and my laws.
06 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:
07 And the men of the place asked him of
his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he
feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the
men of the place should kill me for Rebekah;
because she was fair to look upon.
08 And it came to pass, when he had been
there a long time, that Abimelech king of the
Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and,
behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.
09 And Abimelech called Isaac, and said,
Behold, of a surety she is thy wife; and how
saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said
unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.
10 And Abimelech said, What is this thou
hast done unto us? one of the people might
lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou
shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.
11 And Abimelech charged all his people,
saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife
shall surely be put to death.
12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and
received in the same year an hundredfold: and the
Lord blessed him.
13 And the man waxed great, and went
forward, and grew until he became very great:
14 For he had possession of flocks, and
possession of herds, and great store of servants:
and the Philistines envied him.
15 For all the wells which his father's
servants had digged in the days of Abraham his
father, the Philistines had stopped them, and
filled them with earth.
16 And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from
us; for thou art much mightier than we.
17 And Isaac departed thence, and pitched
his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
18 And Isaac digged again the wells of
water, which they had digged in the days of
Abraham his father; for the Philistines had
stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he
called their names after the names by which his
father had called them.
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19 And Isaac's servants digged in the
valley, and found there a well of springing
water.
20 And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with
Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and
he called the name of the well Esek; because they
strove with him.
21 And they digged another well, and strove
for that also: and he called the name of it
Sitnah.
22 And he removed from thence, and digged
another well; and for that they strove not: and
he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said,
For now the Lord hath made room for us, and we
shall be fruitful in the land.
23 And he went up from thence to Beersheba.
24 And the Lord appeared unto him the same
night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy
father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will
bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant
Abraham's sake.
25 And he builded an altar there, and
called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his
tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a
well.
26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar,
and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the
chief captain of his army.
27 And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come
ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me
away from you?
28 And they said, We saw certainly that the
Lord was with thee: and we said, Let there be now
an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and
let us make a covenant with thee;
29 That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have
not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee
nothing but good, and have sent thee away in
peace: thou art now the blessed of the Lord.
30 And he made them a feast, and they did
eat and drink.
31 And they rose up betimes in the morning,
and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them
away, and they departed from him in peace.
32 And it came to pass the same day, that
Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning
the well which they had digged, and said unto
him, We have found water.
33 And he called it Shebah: therefore the
name of the city is Beersheba unto this day.
34 And Esau was forty years old when he
took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the
Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the
Hittite:
35 Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac
and to Rebekah.
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