Genesis 26
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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.
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- And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down
into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:
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- 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;
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- 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;
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- Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my
charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
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- And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that
toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
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- Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same
year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
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- And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew
until he became very great:
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- For he had possession of flocks, and possession of
herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
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- 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.
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- And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art
much mightier than we.
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- And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the
valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
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- 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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- And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found
there a well of springing water.
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- 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.
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- And they digged another well, and strove for that also:
and he called the name of it Sitnah.
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- 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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- And he went up from thence to Beersheba.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one
of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.
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- And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me,
seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?
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- 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;
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- 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.
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- And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city
is Beersheba unto this day.
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- 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:
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- Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
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