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Genesis - ch 26 v 1 - 20
- And when a famine came in the land, after that barrenness which had happened in the days of Abraham, Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Palestines to Gerara.
- And the Lord appeared to him and said: Go not down into Egypt, but stay in the land that I shall tell thee.
- And sojourn in it, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee: for to thee and to thy seed I will give all these countries, to fulfill the oath which I swore to Abraham thy father.
- And I will multiply thy seed like the stars of heaven: and I will give to thy posterity all these countries: and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.
- Because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my precepts and commandments, and observed my ceremonies and laws.
- So Isaac abode in Gerara.
- And when he was asked by the men of that place, concerning his wife, he answered: She is my sister; for he was afraid to confess that she was his wife, thinking lest perhaps they would like him because of her beauty.
- And when very many days were passed, and he abode there, Abimelech king of the Palestines looking out through a window, saw him playing with Rebecca his wife.
- And calling for him, he said: It is evident she is thy wife: why didst thou feign her to be thy sister? He answered: I feared lest I should die for her sake.
- And Abimelech said: Why hadst thou deceived us? Some man of the people might have lain with thy wife, and thou hadst brought upon us a great sin. And he commanded all the people, saying:
- He that shall touch this man's wife, shall surely be put to death.
- And Isaac sowed in that land, and he found that same year a hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him.
- And the man was enriched, and he went on prospering and increasing, till he became exceeding great:
- And he had possessions of sheep and of herds, and a very great family. Wherefore the Palestines envying him,
- Stopped up at that time all the wells, that the servants of his father Abraham had digged, filling them up with earth:
- Insomuch that Abimelech himself said to Isaac: Depart from us, for thou art become much mightier than we.
- So he departed and came to the torrent of Gerara, to dwell there:
- And he digged again other wells, which the servants of his father Abraham had digged, and which, after his death, the Palestines had of old stopped up: and he called them by the same names by which his father before had called them.
- And they digged in the torrent, and found living water.
- But there also the herdsmen of Gerara strove against the herdsmen of Isaac, saying: It is our water. Wherefore he called the name of the well, on occasion of that which had happened, Calumny.
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