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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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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; |
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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 possession 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 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. |
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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
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. |
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