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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. 2 And the LORD ap­peared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of: 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; 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; 5 Be­cause that Abra­ham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my com­mand­ments, my statutes, and my laws. 6 And Isaac dwelt in Ger­ar: 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. 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. 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. 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. 11 And Abim­elech charged all his peo­ple, say­ing, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall sure­ly be put to death. 12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and re­ceived in the same year an hun­dred­fold: and the LORD blessed him. 13 And the man waxed great, and went for­ward, and grew un­til he be­came very great: 14 For he had pos­ses­sion of flocks, and pos­ses­sion of herds, and great store of ser­vants: and the Philistines en­vied him. 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. 16 And Abim­elech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much might­i­er than we. 17 And Isaac de­part­ed thence, and pitched his tent in the val­ley of Ger­ar, and dwelt there. 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. 19 And Isaac's ser­vants digged in the val­ley, and found there a well of spring­ing wa­ter. 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. 21 And they digged an­oth­er well, and strove for that al­so: and he called the name of it Sit­nah. 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. 23 And he went up from thence to Beer­she­ba. 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. 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. 26 Then Abim­elech went to him from Ger­ar, and Ahuz­zath one of his friends, and Phi­chol the chief cap­tain of his army. 27 And Isaac said unto them, Where­fore come ye to me, see­ing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you? 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; 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. 30 And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink. 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. 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. 33 And he called it She­bah: there­fore the name of the city is Beer­she­ba unto this day. 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: 35 Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Re­bekah.