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Genesis
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English: Basic English Bible |
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Genesis 26 [Context] [Commentary] [Map] 
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Then came a time of great need in the land, like that which had been before in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar. |
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And the Lord came to him in a vision and said, Do not go down to Egypt; keep in the land of which I will give you knowledge: |
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Keep in this land, and I will be with you and give you my blessing; for to you and to your seed will I give all these lands, giving effect to the oath which I made to your father Abraham; |
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I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and will give them all these lands, and your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth; |
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Because Abraham gave ear to my voice and kept my words, my rules, my orders, and my laws. |
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So Isaac went on living in Gerar; |
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And when he was questioned by the men of the place about his wife, he said, She is my sister; fearing to say, She is my wife; for, he said, the men of the place may put me to death on account of Rebekah; because she is very beautiful. |
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And when he had been there for some time, Abimelech, king of the Philistines, looking through a window, saw Isaac playing with Rebekah his wife. |
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And he said to Isaac, It is clear that she is your wife: why then did you say, She is my sister? And Isaac said, For fear that I might be put to death because of her. |
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Then Abimelech said, What have you done to us? one of the people might well have had connection with your wife, and the sin would have been ours. |
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And Abimelech gave orders to his people that anyone touching Isaac or his wife was to be put to death. |
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Now Isaac, planting seed in that land, got in the same year fruit a hundred times as much, for the blessing of the Lord was on him. |
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And his wealth became very great, increasing more and more; |
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For he had great wealth of flocks and herds and great numbers of servants; so that the Philistines were full of envy. |
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Now all the water-holes, which his father's servants had made in the days of Abraham, had been stopped up with earth by the Philistines. |
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And Abimelech said to Isaac, Go away from us, for you are stronger than we are. |
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So Isaac went away from there, and put up his tents in the valley of Gerar, making his living-place there. |
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And he made again the water-holes which had been made in the days of Abraham his father, and which had been stopped up by the Philistines; and he gave them the names which his father had given them. |
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Now Isaac's servants made holes in the valley, and came to a spring of flowing water. |
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But the herdmen of Gerar had a fight with Isaac's herdmen, for they said, The spring is ours: so he gave the spring the name of Esek, because there was a fight about it. |
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Then they made another water-hole, and there was a fight about that, so he gave it the name of Sitnah. |
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Then he went away from there, and made another water-hole, about which there was no fighting: so he gave it the name of Rehoboth, for he said, Now the Lord has made room for us, and we will have fruit in this land. |
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