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. |
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2: 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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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; |
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5: Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my
commandments, my statutes, and my laws. |
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6: And Isaac dwelt in Gerar: |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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13: And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he
became very great: |
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14: For he had possession of flocks, and possessions of herds, and
great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him. |
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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. |
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17: And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of
Gerar, and dwelt there. |
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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. |
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19: And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well
of springing water. |
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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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21: And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he
called the name of it Sitnah. |
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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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23: And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba. |
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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. |
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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.
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26: 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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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; |
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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.
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30: And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink. |
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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. |
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33: And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba
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. |