Isaac Settles in Gerar
26AND THERE was a famine in the land, other than the former famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar, to Abimelech king of the Philistines.H74582And the Lord appeared to him and said, Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land of which I will tell you.H3068H7200H559H3381H4714H7931H776H559
3Dwell temporarily in this land, and I will be with you and will favor you with blessings; for to you and to your descendants I will give all these lands, and I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.H1481H776H1288H2233H5414H411H776H6965H7621H7650H85H1
4And I will make your descendants to multiply as the stars of the heavens, and will give to your posterity all these lands (kingdoms); and by your Offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, {or} by Him bless themselves,H7235H2233H7235H3556H8064H5414H2233H411H776H2233H1471H776H1288
5For Abraham listened to {and} obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commands, My statutes, and My laws.H6118H85H8085H6963H8104H4931H4687H2708H8451
6So Isaac stayed in Gerar.H3327H3427H1642
7And the men of the place asked him about his wife, and he said, She is my sister; for he was afraid to say, She is my wife--[thinking], Lest the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah, because she is attractive {and} is beautiful to look upon.H582H4725H7592H802H559H269H3372H559H802H582H4725H2026H7259H2896H4758
8When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out of a window and saw Isaac caressing Rebekah his wife.H748H3117H40H4428H6430H8259H1157H2474H7200H3327H6711H7259H802
9And Abimelech called Isaac and said, See here, she is certainly your wife! How did you [dare] say to me, She is my sister? And Isaac said to him, Because I thought, Lest I die on account of her.H40H7121H3327H559H389H802H559H269H3327H559H559H4191
10And Abimelech said, What is this you have done to us? One of the men might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt {and} sin upon us.H40H559H6213H259H5971H4592H7901H802H935H817
11Then Abimelech charged all his people, He who touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.H40H6680H5971H559H5060H376H802H4191H4191
12Then Isaac sowed seed in that land and received in the same year a hundred times as much as he had planted, and the Lord favored him with blessings.H3327H2232H776H4672H8141H3967H8180H3068H1288
13And the man became great and gained more and more until he became very wealthy {and} distinguished;H376H1431H3212H1980H1432H1431H3966H1431
14He owned flocks, herds, and a great supply of servants, and the Philistines envied him.H4735H6629H4735H1241H7227H5657H6430H7065
15Now all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had closed and filled with earth.H875H1H5650H2658H3117H85H1H6430H5640H4390H6083
16And Abimelech said to Isaac, Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we are.H40H559H3327H3212H3966H6105
17So Isaac went away from there and pitched his tent in the Valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.H3327H3212H2583H5158H1642H3427H8033 H2658H7725H875H4325H2658H3117H85H1H6430H5640H310H4194H85H7121H8034H8034H834H1H7121
Quarrel over the Wells
18And Isaac dug again the wells of water which had been dug in the days of Abraham his father, for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham; and he gave them the names by which his father had called them.H332719Now Isaac's servants dug in the valley and found there a well of living [spring] water.H3327H5650H2658H5158H4672H875H2416H4325
20And the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, The water is ours. And he named the well Esek [contention] because they quarreled with him.H7462H1642H7378H3327H7462H559H4325H7121H8034H875H6230H6229
21Then [his servants] dug another well, and they quarreled over that also; so he named it Sitnah [enmity].H2658H312H875H7378H7121H8034H7856
22And he moved away from there and dug another well, and for that one they did not quarrel. He named it Rehoboth [room], saying, For now the Lord has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.H6275H2658H312H875H7378H7121H8034H7344H559H6258H3068H7337H6509H776
23Now he went up from there to Beersheba.H5927H884
24And the Lord appeared to him the same night and said, I am the God of Abraham your father. Fear not, for I am with you and will favor you with blessings and multiply your descendants for the sake of My servant Abraham.H3068H7200H3915H559H430H85H1H3372H854H1288H7235H2233H5650H85
25And [Isaac] built an altar there and called on the name of the Lord and pitched his tent there; and there Isaac's servants were digging a well.H1129H4196H7121H8034H3068H5186H168H3327H5650H3738H875 H1980H1642H276H4828H6369H8269H6635
Covenant with Abimelech
26Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar with Ahuzzah, one of his friends, and Phicol, his army's commander.H4027And Isaac said to them, Why have you come to me, seeing that you hate me and have sent me away from you?H3327H559H4069H935H8130H7971
28They said, We saw that the Lord was certainly with you; so we said, Let there be now an oath between us [carrying a curse with it to befall the one who breaks it], even between you and us, and let us make a covenant with youH559H7200H7200H3068H559H423H996H996H3772H1285
29That you will do us no harm, inasmuch as we have not touched you and have done to you nothing but good and have sent you away in peace. You are now the blessed {or} favored of the Lord!H6213H7451H5060H6213H7535H2896H7971H7965H6258H1288H3068
30And he made them a [formal] dinner, and they ate and drank.H6213H4960H398H8354 
31And they rose up early in the morning and took oaths [with a curse] with one another; and Isaac sent them on their way and they departed from him in peace.H7925H1242H7650H376H251H3327H7971H3212H7965
32That same day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well they had dug, saying, We have found water!H3117H3327H5650H935H5046H182H875H2658H559H4672H4325
33And he named [the well] Shibah; therefore the name of the city is Beersheba [well of the oath] to this day.H7121H7656H8034H5892H884H3117 
New Testament
34Now Esau was 40 years old when he took as wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.H6215H705H8141H1121H3947H802H3067H1323H882H2850H1315H1323H356H2850
35And they made life bitter {and} a grief of mind {and} spirit for Isaac and Rebekah [their parents-in-law].H4786H7307H3327H7259
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