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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.
