¹ And Abraham journeyed thence toward the land of the south, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur, and he sojourned in Gerar.

² And Abraham said of^▵ Sarah his wife, She^◦ is my sister; and Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.

³ And God came to^▵ Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, Behold thou wilt·​·die on·​·account·​·of the woman whom thou hast taken, for she^◦ is married to a husband.

⁴ And Abimelech had not come·​·near to^▵ her; and he said, Lord, wilt Thou kill also a just nation?

⁵ Said he^◦ not to me, She^◦ is my sister? And she^◦ herself^◦ also Said, He^◦ is my brother; in the integrity of my heart and in the innocence of my hands^◦ have I done this.

⁶ And God said to^▵ him in the dream, I^▵ also know that in the integrity of thy heart thou hast done this; and I^▵ also kept· thee ·back from sinning against Me; therefore I did not allow^◦ thee to touch her.

⁷ And now return the wife of the man^◦, for he^◦ is a prophet; and he shall pray for^▫ thee, and thou shalt live; and if thou return her not^◦, know thou that dying thou shalt die, thou^◦ and all that are thine.

⁸ And Abimelech got·​·up·​·early in the morning, and called all his servants, and spoke all these words in their ears; and the men^◦ feared exceedingly.

⁹ And Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, What hast thou done to us? And wherein have I sinned against^▵ thee that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? Thou hast done with·​·me deeds that ought not to be done.

¹⁰ And Abimelech said to^▵ Abraham, What sawest thou that thou hast done this word?

¹¹ And Abraham said, Because^◦ I said, Surely^◦ there is no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me on·​·account·​·of the matter of my wife.

¹² And also, truly, she^◦ is my sister, being the daughter of my father, only^▵ not the daughter of my mother, and she became for me a wife.

¹³ And it was, as^◦ God caused me to depart^* from the house of my father, that I said to her, This is thy mercy which thou shalt do with·​·me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He^◦ is my brother.

¹⁴ And Abimelech took flock and herd, and menservants and handmaids, and gave to Abraham; and returned to him Sarah his wife.

¹⁵ And Abimelech said, Behold my land is before thee; dwell in that which is good in thine eyes.

¹⁶ And to Sarah he said, Behold I have given a thousand of silver to thy brother; behold it^◦ is to thee a covering of the eyes to all that are with^◦ thee, and with^◦ all; and she was vindicated.

¹⁷ And Abraham prayed to^▵ God, and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they gave·​·birth.

¹⁸ For restraining Jehovah had therefore restrained every womb of^◦ the house of Abimelech, on·​·account·​·of the word of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

¹ There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

² Yahweh appeared to him, and said, "Don't go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.

³ Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

⁴ I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed,

⁵ because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."

⁶ Isaac lived in Gerar.

⁷ The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "My wife," lest, he thought, "the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at."

⁸ It happened, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.

⁹ Abimelech called Isaac, and said, "Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, 'She is my sister?'" Isaac said to him, "Because I said, 'Lest I die because of her.'"

¹⁰ Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!"

¹¹ Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."

¹² Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.

¹³ The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great.

¹⁴ He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.

¹⁵ Now all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.

¹⁶ Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go from us, for you are much mightier than we."

¹⁷ Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.

¹⁸ Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father. For the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.

¹⁹ Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.

²⁰ The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.

²¹ They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. He called its name Sitnah.

²² He left that place, and dug another well. They didn't argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, "For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land."

²³ He went up from there to Beersheba.

²⁴ Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Don't be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my servant Abraham's sake."

²⁵ He built an altar there, and called on the name of Yahweh, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac's servants dug a well.

²⁶ Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.

²⁷ Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?"

²⁸ They said, "We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. We said, 'Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you,

²⁹ that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.' You are now the blessed of Yahweh."

³⁰ He made them a feast, and they ate and drank.

³¹ They rose up some time in the morning, and swore one to another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

³² It happened the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, "We have found water."

³³ He called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.

³⁴ When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.

³⁵ They grieved Isaac's and Rebekah's spirits.