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Chapter 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. |
