26Genesis 26

1There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.Select Genesis 26:1

2Yahweh appeared to him, and said, “Don’t go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.Select Genesis 26:2

3Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.Select Genesis 26:3

4I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed,Select Genesis 26:4

5because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”Select Genesis 26:5

6Isaac lived in Gerar.Select Genesis 26:6

7The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “My wife”, lest, he thought, “the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at.”Select Genesis 26:7

8When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.Select Genesis 26:8

9Abimelech called Isaac, and said, “Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, ‘She is my sister?’” Isaac said to him, “Because I said, ‘Lest I die because of her.’”Select Genesis 26:9

10Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!”Select Genesis 26:10

11Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”Select Genesis 26:11

12Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.Select Genesis 26:12

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

14He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.Select Genesis 26:14

15Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.Select Genesis 26:15

16Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go from us, for you are much mightier than we.”Select Genesis 26:16

17Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.Select Genesis 26:17

18Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father. For the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.Select Genesis 26:18

19Isaac’s servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.Select Genesis 26:19

20The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.Select Genesis 26:20

21They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. He called its name Sitnah.Select Genesis 26:21

22He left that place, and dug another well. They didn’t argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, “For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”Select Genesis 26:22

23He went up from there to Beersheba.Select Genesis 26:23

24Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my servant Abraham’s sake.”Select Genesis 26:24

25He built an altar there, and called on Yahweh’s name, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac’s servants dug a well.Select Genesis 26:25

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

27Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?”Select Genesis 26:27

28They said, “We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. We said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you,Select Genesis 26:28

29that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.’ You are now the blessed of Yahweh.”Select Genesis 26:29

30He made them a feast, and they ate and drank.Select Genesis 26:30

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

32The same day, Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.”Select Genesis 26:32

33He called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.Select Genesis 26:33

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

35They grieved Isaac’s and Rebekah’s spirits.Select Genesis 26:35