Genesis 26

1¶ And there was a famine in the land, in addition to the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech, king of the Philistines, unto Gerar.

2And the Lord appeared unto him and said, Do not go down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of;

3abide 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 lands, and I will confirm the oath which I swore unto Abraham thy father;

4and I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven and will give unto thy seed all these lands, and in thy seed shall all the Gentiles of the earth be blessed

5because Abraham hearkened unto my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

6¶ Therefore Isaac dwelt in Gerar.

7And the men of that 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.

8And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time that Abimelech, king of the Philistines, looking out a window, saw Isaac sporting with Rebekah, his wife.

9And Abimelech called Isaac and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife; and how didst thou say, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die because of her.

10And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? One of the people might easily have slept with thy wife, and thou should have brought the sin upon us.

11Then Abimelech charged all the people, saying, He that touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.

12¶ Then Isaac sowed in that land and received in the same year one hundred-fold, and the Lord blessed him.

13And the man waxed great and went forward and grew until he became very great,

14for he had possession of flocks, possession of herds, great store of servants, and the Philistines envied him.

15For all the wells which his father’s slaves had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them and filled them with earth.

16And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us, for thou art become much mightier than we.

17And Isaac departed from there and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar and dwelt there.

18And Isaac reopened the wells of water, which they had opened in the days of Abraham his father, for the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham, and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.

19And Isaac’s slaves dug in the valley and found there a well of living waters.

20And the pastors of Gerar strove with Isaac’s pastors, saying, The water is ours; therefore he called the name of the well Esek, because they strove with him.

21And they opened another well and strove for that one also; and he called the name of it Sitnah.

22And he left there and opened another well; and for that one they did not strive and he called the name of it Rehoboth, and he said, For now the Lord has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.

23And he went up from there unto Beersheba.

24And 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 slave Abraham’s sake.

25And he built an altar there and called upon the name of the Lord and pitched his tent there; and there Isaac’s slaves opened a well.

26¶ Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar and Ahuzzath, one of his friends, and Phichol, the chief captain of his army.

27And Isaac said unto them, Why come ye to me, seeing ye hate me and have sent me away from you?

28And they said, We have seen certainly that the Lord is with thee; and we said, Let there be now an oath between us, even between us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee,

29that 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.

30And he made them a banquet, and they ate and drank.

31And they rose up early in the morning and swore one to another; and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

32And it came to pass the same day that Isaac’s slaves came and told him concerning the well which they had opened and said unto him, We have found water.

33And 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:

35Who were bitterness of spirit unto Isaac and to Rebekah.

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Genesis 26

CHAPTER 26

1Forsooth for hunger rose on the land, after that barrenness that befelled in the days of Abraham, Isaac went forth to Abimelech, king of Palestines, in Gerar.

2And the Lord appeared to him, and said, Go not down into Egypt, but rest thou in the land which I shall say to thee,

3and be thou a pilgrim therein; and I shall be with thee, and I shall bless thee; for I shall give all these countries to thee, and to thy seed, and I shall [ful] fill the oath which I promised to Abraham, thy father.

4And I shall multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and I shall give all these countries to thine heirs, and all folks of the earth shall be blessed in thy seed,

5for Abraham obeyed to my voice, and kept my behests, and my commandments, and my ceremonies, and my laws.

6And so Isaac dwelled in Gerar.

7And when he was asked of [the] men of that place of his wife, he answered, She is my sister; for he dreaded to acknowledge that she was fellowshipped to him in matrimony, and he guessed lest peradventure they would slay him for the fairness of her.

8And when full many days were passed, and he dwelled there, Abimelech, king of Palestines, beheld by a window, and saw him playing with Rebecca, his wife.

9And when Isaac was called, the king said, It is open, that she is thy wife; why saidest thou, that she was thy sister? Isaac answered, For I dreaded, lest I should die for her.

10And Abimelech said, Why hast thou deceived us? Some man of the people might do lechery with thy wife, and thou haddest brought in grievous sin on us.

11And the king commanded to all the people, and said, He that toucheth the wife of this man shall die by death.

12Forsooth Isaac sowed in that land, and he found an hundredfold increase in that year; and the Lord blessed him.

13And the man was made rich, and he went profiting and increasing, till he was made full great.

14Also he had possessions of sheep and of great beasts, and full much of menials. For this thing Palestines had envy to him,

15and they stopped in that time and filled with earth all the pits or wells which the servants of Abraham his father had digged,

16in so much that Abimelech himself said to Isaac, Go thou away from us, for thou art made greatly mightier than we.

17And he went away, that he should come to the strand of Gerar, and dwelled there.

18And he digged again other wells, which the servants of Abraham his father had digged, and which the Philistines had stopped sometime, when Abraham was dead; and he called those pits by the same names, by which his father had called before.

19They digged in the strand, and they found quick, or welling up, water.

20But also strife of [the] shepherds of Gerar was there against the shep-herds of Isaac, and they said, The water is ours; wherefore of that strife that befelled, Isaac called the name of that well False Challenge, or Esek, or Quarrel.

21And they digged another well, and they strived also for that, and Isaac called that well Enmities, or Sitnah, or Enmity.

22And he went forth from thence, and digged another pit, for which they strived not, [and] therefore he called the name of that well Breadth, either Largeness; and said, Now God hath alarged us, and hath made us to increase on [the] earth.

23Isaac forsooth went up from that place into Beersheba,

24where the Lord appeared to him in that night; and said, I am [the] God of Abraham, thy father; do not thou dread, for I am with thee, and I shall bless thee, and I shall multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham.

25And so Isaac builded there an altar to the Lord; and when the name of the Lord was inwardly called, he stretched forth a tabernacle; and he commanded his servants that they should dig pits.

26And when Abimelech, and Ahuzzath, one of his friends, and Phicol, [the] duke of knights, had come from Gerar to that place,

27Isaac spake to them, What came ye to me, a man whom ye have hated, and putted away from you?

28Which answered, We saw that God is with thee, and therefore we said now, An oath be betwixt us, and make we a covenant of peace,

29that thou do not any [thing of] evil to us, as we touched nothing of thine, neither did that that hurted thee, but with peace we let go thee increased by the blessings of the Lord.

30Therefore Isaac made them a feast; and after meat and drink,

31they rose early, and swore each to other; and Isaac let go them peaceably into their place.

32Lo! forsooth in that day the servants of Isaac came, telling to him of the pit which they had digged, and said, We have found water.

33Wherefore Isaac called that pit Abundance or Shebah; and the name of the city was set Beersheba till into this present day.

34Esau forsooth forty years eld [or old] wedded two wives, Judith#26:34 She is also known as Oholibamah or Aholibamah., the daughter of Beeri Hittite, and Bashemath#26:34 She is also known as Adah., the daughter of Elon, of the same place;

35which both offended the soul of Isaac and of Rebecca.

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