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GE-26:1 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.
GE-26:2 And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down
into Egypt;
dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:
GE-26:3 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;
GE-26:4 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;
GE-26:5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my
charge, my
commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
GE-26:6 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:
GE-26:7 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.
GE-26:8 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.
GE-26:9 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.
GE-26:10 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.
GE-26:11 And Abimelech charged all [his] people, saying, He
that toucheth
this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
GE-26:12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the
same year an
hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
GE-26:13 And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew
until he became
very great:
GE-26:14 For he had possession of flocks, and possession of
herds, and great
store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
GE-26:15 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.
GE-26:16 And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou
art much
mightier than we.
GE-26:17 And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the
valley of
Gerar, and dwelt there.
GE-26:18 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.
GE-26:19 And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found
there a well of
springing water.
GE-26:20 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.
GE-26:21 And they digged another well, and strove for that also:
and he
called the name of it Sitnah.
GE-26:22 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.
GE-26:23 And he went up from thence to Beersheba.
GE-26:24 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.
GE-26:25 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.
GE-26:26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath
one of his
friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.
GE-26:27 And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me,
seeing ye hate
me, and have sent me away from you?
GE-26:28 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;
GE-26:29 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.
GE-26:30 And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
GE-26:31 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.
GE-26:32 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
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