Genesis:26:1-22

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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 . * And the LORD appeared unto him , and said , Go not down into Egypt ; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of : * 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 ; * 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 ; * Because that Abraham obeyed my voice , and kept my charge , my commandments , my statutes , and my laws . * And Isaac dwelt in Gerar : * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * And Abimelech charged all his people , saying , He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death . * Then Isaac sowed in that land , and received in the same year an hundredfold : and the LORD blessed him . * And the man waxed great , and went forward , and grew until he became very great : * For he had possession of flocks , and possession of herds , and great store of servants : and the Philistines envied him . * 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 . * And Abimelech said unto Isaac , Go from us ; for thou art much mightier than we . * And Isaac departed thence , and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar , and dwelt there . * 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 . * And Isaac 's servants digged in the valley , and found there a well of springing water . * 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 . * And they digged another well , and strove for that also : and he called the name of it Sitnah . * 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 .

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