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Genesis - ch 26 v 21 - 35
- And they digged another well, and contended for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.
- And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they did not contend: 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.
- And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba.
- And the LORD appeared to 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.
- And he built an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a well.
- Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.
- And Isaac said to them, Why come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?
- And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;
- That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done to thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the LORD.
- And he made them a feast, and they ate and drank.
- And they rose betimes in the morning, and swore one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
- And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said to him, We have found water.
- And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba to this day.
- And Esau was forty years old when he took for a wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
- Who were a grief of mind to Isaac and Rebekah.
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