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The First Book of Moses: Called Genesis, 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 himof 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.
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