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English: Webster's Bible |
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Genesis 26 [Context] [Commentary] [Map] 
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And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba. |
| 24. |
And the LORD appeared to him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake. |
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And he built an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a well. |
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Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army. |
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And Isaac said to them, Why come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you? |
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And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee; |
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That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done to thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the LORD. |
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And he made them a feast, and they ate and drank. |
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And they rose betimes in the morning, and swore one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace. |
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And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said to him, We have found water. |
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And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba to this day. |
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And Esau was forty years old when he took for a wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite: |
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Who were a grief of mind to Isaac and Rebekah. |
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