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And there was a famine in the land , besides◦ the first famine that was in the days of Abraham . And Isaac went to▵ Abimelech king of the Philistines , to Gerar .
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And Jehovah appeared to▵ him, and said , Go · not ·down into Egypt ; inhabit the land of which I speak◦ to▵ thee.
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Sojourn in this land , and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for to thee, and to thy seed , I will give all these lands , and I will raise··up the promise which I promised to Abraham thy father .
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And I will cause thy seed to be multiplied as the stars of the heavens , and will give to thy seed all these lands ; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed ,
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because▵ Abraham obeyed My voice , and kept My charge, My commandments , My statutes , and My laws .
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And the men◦ of the place asked him as··to his woman*; and he said , She◦ is my sister ; for he feared to say , She is my woman ; lest the men◦ of the place should kill me on··account of Rebekah ; because◦ she◦ was good in appearance.
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And it was, because◦ the days were there prolonged to him, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked··out through a window , and saw , and behold Isaac was laughing with◦ Rebekah his woman .
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And Abimelech called Isaac , and said , Surely behold she◦ is thy woman . And how◦ saidst thou, She◦ is my sister ? And Isaac said to▵ him, Because◦ I said , Lest I die on··account··of her.
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And Abimelech said , What is this thou hast done to us , in that one of the people might have lightly lain··down with◦ thy woman , and thou wouldst have brought guilt upon us ?
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And Abimelech commanded all the people , saying, He who touches this man ◦ and his woman , dying he shall die .
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And Isaac sowed in that◦ land , and found in that◦ year a hundred measures, and Jehovah blessed him.
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And the man ◦ became··great, and went on going◦ and becoming··great until that he became· very ·great.
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And he had◦ livestock of the flock , and livestock of the herd , and much service ; and the Philistines were··envious of him.
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And all the wells that his father ’s servants dug in the days of Abraham his father , the Philistines blocked· them ·up, and filled them with dust .
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And Abimelech said to▵ Isaac , Go from with us ; for thou art exceedingly more numerous than we.
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And Isaac went thence, and encamped by the brook of Gerar , and dwelt there.
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And Isaac returned , and dug again* the wells of waters which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father ; and the Philistines blocked· them ·up after the death of Abraham ; and he called them by names according··to the names which his father called them.
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And the servants of Isaac dug in the gully, and found there a well of living waters.
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And the shepherds of Gerar strove with Isaac ’s shepherds , saying, The waters are ours; and he called the name of the well Esek, because◦ they contended◦ with him.
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And they dug another well , and they strove over that also, and he called the name of it Sitnah*.
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And he moved··away from thence, and dug another well , and over it they strove not, and he called the name of it Rehoboth ; and he said , For now Jehovah has made us to be enlarged, and we shall be··fruitful in the land .
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And he went··up from thence to Beer-sheba.
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And Jehovah appeared to▵ him in that◦ night , and said , I▵ am the God of Abraham thy father ; fear not , for I▵ am with◦ thee, and I will bless thee, and will multiply thy seed , on◦ account··of Abraham My servant .
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And he built there an altar , and called upon◦ the name of Jehovah , and stretched his tent there, and there the servants of Isaac dug ··out a well .
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And Abimelech went◦ to▵ him from Gerar , and Ahuzzath his companion, and Phichol the commander ◦ of his army .
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And Isaac said to▵ them, Wherefore have you come to▵ me, and you◦ have hated me, and have sent · me ·away from◦ you.
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And they said , Seeing we have seen that Jehovah was with thee; and we said , We pray◦ thee, let there be an oath between us , between us and thee, and let us cut a covenant with thee.
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If thou shalt do evil with us , as◦ we have not touched thee, and as◦ we have done only good with thee, and have sent · thee ·away in peace ; thou◦ art now the blessed of Jehovah .
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And he made for them a feast , and they did eat and drink .
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And they got··up··early in the morning , and promised a man◦ to his brother ; and Isaac sent · them ·away, and they went from◦ him in peace .
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And it was, in that◦ day , that the servants of Isaac came and told him concerning the matter◦ of the well which they had dug ; and they said to him, We have found waters.
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And he called it Shebah*; therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba* even··to this day .
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And Esau was a son of forty years, and he took for a woman Jehudith , the daughter of Beeri the Hittite , and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite .
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And they were bitterness of spirit to Isaac and to Rebekah .