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Genesis
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English: Webster's Bible |
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Genesis 26 [Context] [Commentary] [Map] 
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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 the LORD appeared to him, and said, Go not down into Egypt: dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of. |
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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 countries, and I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham thy father; |
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And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give to thy seed all these countries: and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed: |
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Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws. |
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And Isaac dwelt in Gerar: |
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And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon. |
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And it came to pass 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 sporting with Rebekah his wife. |
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And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, surely she is thy wife: and how saidst thou, She is my sister? and Isaac said to him, Because I said, Lest I should die on her account. |
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And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done to us? one of the people might lightly have lain with thy wife, and thou wouldst have brought guiltiness upon us. |
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And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death. |
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Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year a hundred-fold: and the LORD blessed him: |
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And the man became great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great: |
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For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and very many servants: And the Philistines envied him. |
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For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth. |
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And Abimelech said to Isaac, Go from us: for thou art much mightier than we. |
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And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there. |
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And Isaac digged again the wells of water which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them. |
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And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water. |
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And the herdmen of Gerar contended with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him. |
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And they digged another well, and contended for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah. |
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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. |
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