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Chapter 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. |
| 2 |
And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the
land which I shall tell thee of: |
| 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; |
| 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; |
| 5 | Because that
Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and
my laws. |
| 6
| And Isaac dwelt in Gerar: |
| 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. |
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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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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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: |
| 14
| 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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| 16 | And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier
than we. |
| 17
| And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the
valley of Gerar, and dwelt there. |
| 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. |
| 19 |
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. |
| 21 | 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. |
| 23 | And he went
up from thence to Beersheba. |
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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. |
| 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. |
| 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? |
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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; |
| 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. |
| 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.
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| 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. |
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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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35 | Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac
and to Rebekah. |
