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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. |
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. |
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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. |
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: |
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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. |
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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. |
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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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; |
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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. |
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: |
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Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah. |