Genesis:26

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* Now there was a famine in the land , besides the former famine that was in the days of Abraham . And Isaac went to Gerar , to Abim 'elech king of the Philistines . * And the LORD appeared to him , and said , "Do not go down to Egypt ; dwell in the land of which I shall tell you . * Sojourn in this land , and I will be with you , and will bless you ; for to you and to your descendants I will give all these lands , and I will fulfil the oath which I swore to Abraham your father . * I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven , and will give to your descendants all these lands ; and by your descendants all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves : * because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge , my commandments , my statutes , and my laws ." * So Isaac dwelt in Gerar . * When the men of the place asked him about his wife , he said , "She is my sister "; for he feared to say , "My wife ," thinking , "lest the men of the place should kill me for the sake of Rebekah "; because she was fair to look upon . * When he had been there a long time , Abim 'elech king of the Philistines looked out of a window and saw Isaac fondling Rebekah his wife . * So Abim 'elech called Isaac , and said , "Behold , she is your wife ; how then could you say , `She is my sister '?" Isaac said to him , "Because I thought , `Lest I die because of her .'" * Abim 'elech said , "What is this you have done to us ? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife , and you would have brought guilt upon us ." * So Abim 'elech warned all the people , saying , "Whoever touches this man or his wife shall be put to death ." * And Isaac sowed in that land , and reaped in the same year a hundredfold . The LORD blessed him , * and the man became rich , and gained more and more until he became very wealthy . * He had possessions of flocks and herds , and a great household , so that the Philistines envied him . * (Now the Philistines had stopped and filled with earth all the wells which his father 's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father .) * And Abim 'elech said to Isaac , "Go away from us ; for you are much mightier than we ." * So Isaac departed from there , and encamped in the valley of Gerar and dwelt there . * And Isaac dug again the wells of water which had been dug in the days of Abraham his father ; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham ; and he gave them the names which his father had given them . * But when Isaac 's servants dug in the valley and found there a well of springing water , * the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac 's herdsmen , saying , "The water is ours ." So he called the name of the well Esek , because they contended with him . * Then they dug another well , and they quarreled over that also ; so he called its name Sitnah . * And he moved from there and dug another well , and over that they did not quarrel ; so he called its name Reho 'both , saying , "For now the LORD has made room for us , and we shall be fruitful in the land ." * From there he went up to Beer-sheba . * And the LORD appeared to him the same night and said , "I am the God of Abraham your father ; fear not , for I am with you and will bless you and multiply your descendants for my servant Abraham 's sake ." * So he built an altar there and called upon the name of the LORD , and pitched his tent there . And there Isaac 's servants dug a well . * Then Abim 'elech went to him from Gerar with Ahuz 'zath his adviser and Phicol the commander of his army . * Isaac said to them , "Why have you come to me , seeing that you hate me and have sent me away from you ?" * They said , "We see plainly that the LORD is with you ; so we say , let there be an oath between you and us , and let us make a covenant with you , * that you will do us no harm , just as we have not touched you and have done to you nothing but good and have sent you away in peace . You are now the blessed of the LORD ." * So he made them a feast , and they ate and drank . * In the morning they rose early and took oath with one another ; and Isaac set them on their way , and they departed from him in peace . * That same day Isaac 's servants came and told him about the well which they had dug , and said to him , "We have found water ." * He called it Shibah ; therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba to this day . * When Esau was forty years old , he took to wife Judith the daughter of Be-e 'ri the Hittite , and Bas 'emath the daughter of Elon the Hittite ; * and they made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah .

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