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Genesis - ch 26 v 1 - 20
- Then came a time of great need in the land, like that which had been before in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar.
- And the Lord came to him in a vision and said, Do not go down to Egypt; keep in the land of which I will give you knowledge:
- Keep in this land, and I will be with you and give you my blessing; for to you and to your seed will I give all these lands, giving effect to the oath which I made to your father Abraham;
- I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and will give them all these lands, and your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth;
- Because Abraham gave ear to my voice and kept my words, my rules, my orders, and my laws.
- So Isaac went on living in Gerar;
- And when he was questioned by the men of the place about his wife, he said, She is my sister; fearing to say, She is my wife; for, he said, the men of the place may put me to death on account of Rebekah; because she is very beautiful.
- And when he had been there for some time, Abimelech, king of the Philistines, looking through a window, saw Isaac playing with Rebekah his wife.
- And he said to Isaac, It is clear that she is your wife: why then did you say, She is my sister? And Isaac said, For fear that I might be put to death because of her.
- Then Abimelech said, What have you done to us? one of the people might well have had connection with your wife, and the sin would have been ours.
- And Abimelech gave orders to his people that anyone touching Isaac or his wife was to be put to death.
- Now Isaac, planting seed in that land, got in the same year fruit a hundred times as much, for the blessing of the Lord was on him.
- And his wealth became very great, increasing more and more;
- For he had great wealth of flocks and herds and great numbers of servants; so that the Philistines were full of envy.
- Now all the water-holes, which his father's servants had made in the days of Abraham, had been stopped up with earth by the Philistines.
- And Abimelech said to Isaac, Go away from us, for you are stronger than we are.
- So Isaac went away from there, and put up his tents in the valley of Gerar, making his living-place there.
- And he made again the water-holes which had been made in the days of Abraham his father, and which had been stopped up by the Philistines; and he gave them the names which his father had given them.
- Now Isaac's servants made holes in the valley, and came to a spring of flowing water.
- But the herdmen of Gerar had a fight with Isaac's herdmen, for they said, The spring is ours: so he gave the spring the name of Esek, because there was a fight about it.
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