26Genesis 26

1And 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.Select Genesis 26:1

2And the LORD appeared unto him, and said: 'Go not down unto Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of.Select Genesis 26:2

3Sojourn 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 establish the oath which I swore unto Abraham thy father;Select Genesis 26:3

4and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these lands; and by thy seed shall all the nations of the earth bless themselves;Select Genesis 26:4

5because that Abraham hearkened to My voice, and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.'Select Genesis 26:5

6And Isaac dwelt in Gerar.Select Genesis 26:6

7And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said: 'She is my sister'; for he feared to say: 'My wife'; 'lest the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah, because she is fair to look upon.'Select Genesis 26:7

8And 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.Select Genesis 26:8

9And 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 because of her.'Select Genesis 26:9

10And Abimelech said: 'What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might easily have lain with thy wife, and thou wouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.'Select Genesis 26:10

11And Abimelech charged all the people, saying: 'He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.'Select Genesis 26:11

12And Isaac sowed in that land, and found in the same year a hundredfold; and the LORD blessed him.Select Genesis 26:12

13And the man waxed great, and grew more and more until he became very great.Select Genesis 26:13

14And he had possessions of flocks, and possessions of herds, and a great household; and the Philistines envied him.Select Genesis 26:14

15Now 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.Select Genesis 26:15

16And Abimelech said unto Isaac: 'Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.'Select Genesis 26:16

17And Isaac departed thence, and encamped in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.Select Genesis 26:17

18And 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.Select Genesis 26:18

19And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of living water.Select Genesis 26:19

20And the herdmen of Gerar strove with Isaac's herdmen, saying: 'The water is ours.' And he called the name of the well Esek; because they contended with him.Select Genesis 26:20

21And they digged another well, and they strove for that also. And he called the name of it Sitnah.Select Genesis 26:21

22And 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.'Select Genesis 26:22

23And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba.Select Genesis 26:23

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 servant Abraham's sake.'Select Genesis 26:24

25And 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.Select Genesis 26:25

26Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his host.Select Genesis 26:26

27And Isaac said unto them: 'Wherefore are ye come unto me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?'Select Genesis 26:27

28And they said: 'We saw plainly that the LORD was with thee; and we said: Let there now be an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;Select Genesis 26:28

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.'Select Genesis 26:29

30And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.Select Genesis 26:30

31And they rose up betimes in the morning, and swore one to another; and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.Select Genesis 26:31

32And 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.'Select Genesis 26:32

33And he called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day.Select Genesis 26:33

34And when Esau was forty years old, he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.Select Genesis 26:34

35And they were a bitterness of spirit unto Isaac and to Rebekah.Select Genesis 26:35