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Genesis 26

Isaac Settles in Gerar

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Now there was  aa famine in the land, besides the previous famine that had occurred in the days of Abraham. So Isaac went to Gerar, to  bAbimelech king of the Philistines.

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The LORD  aappeared to him and said, "Do not go down to Egypt;  1 bstay in the land of which I shall tell you.

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"Sojourn in this land and  aI will be with you and  bbless you, for  cto you and to your  1descendants I will give all these lands, and I will establish  dthe oath which I swore to your father Abraham.

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aI will multiply your  1descendants as the stars of heaven, and will give your  1descendants all these lands; and  bby your  1descendants all the nations of the earth  2shall be blessed;

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because Abraham  1 aobeyed Me and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes and My laws."

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So Isaac  1lived in Gerar.

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When the men of the place asked about his wife, he said, " aShe is my sister," for he was  bafraid to say, "my wife," thinking,1the men of the place might kill me on account of Rebekah, for she is  cbeautiful."

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It came about, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out through a window, and saw, and behold, Isaac was caressing his wife Rebekah.

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Then Abimelech called Isaac and said, "Behold, certainly she is your wife! How then did you say, `She is my sister'?" And Isaac said to him, "Because I said, `I might die on account of her.' "

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 aAbimelech 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."

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So Abimelech charged all the people, saying, "He who  atouches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death."

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Now Isaac sowed in that land and  1reaped in the same year a hundredfold. And  athe LORD blessed him,

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and the man  abecame rich, and continued to grow  1richer until he became very  1wealthy;

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for  ahe had possessions of flocks  1and herds and a great household, so that the Philistines envied him.

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Now  aall the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines stopped up  1by filling them with earth.

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Then Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go away from us, for you are  1 atoo powerful for us."

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And Isaac departed from there and camped in the valley of Gerar, and  1settled there.

Quarrel over the Wells

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Then Isaac dug again the wells of water which  1had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, for the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham; and he  2gave them the same names which his father had  3given them.

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But when Isaac's servants dug in the valley and found there a well of  1flowing water,

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the herdsmen of Gerar  aquarreled with the herdsmen of Isaac, saying, "The water is ours!" So he named the well  1Esek, because they contended with him.

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Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over it too, so he named it  1Sitnah.

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He moved away from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it; so he named it  1Rehoboth, for he said, " 2 aAt last the LORD has made  3room for us, and we will be  bfruitful in the land."

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Then he went up from there to  aBeersheba.

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The LORD  aappeared to him the same night and said, " bI am the God of your father Abraham;  cDo not fear, for I am with you. I  dwill bless you, and multiply your  1descendants, For the sake of My servant Abraham."

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So he built an  aaltar there and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there; and there Isaac's servants dug a well.

Covenant with Abimelech

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Then  aAbimelech came to him from Gerar  1with his adviser Ahuzzath and Phicol the commander of his army.

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Isaac said to them, " aWhy have you come to me, since you hate me and have sent me away from you?"

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They said, "We see plainly  athat the LORD has been with you; so we said, `Let there now be an oath between us, even between  1you and us, and let us make a covenant with you,

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that you will do us no harm, just as we have not touched you  1and have done to you nothing but good and have sent you away in peace. You are now the  ablessed of the LORD.' "

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Then  ahe made them a feast, and they ate and drank.

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In the morning they arose early and  1 aexchanged oaths; then Isaac sent them away and they departed from him in peace.

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Now it came about on the same day, that Isaac's servants came in and told him about the well which they had dug, and said to him, "We have found water."

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So he called it Shibah; therefore the name of the city is  aBeersheba to this day.

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When Esau was forty years old  ahe  1married Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite;

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and  athey  1brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah.



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