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[1]Andthere is a famine in the land, besides the first famine which was in the days of Abraham, and Isaac goeth unto Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.
[2]AndJehovah appeareth unto him, and saith, `Go not down towards Egypt, tabernacle in the land concerning which I speak unto thee,
[3]sojournin this land, and I am with thee, and bless thee, for to thee and to thy seed I give all these lands, and I have established the oath which I have sworn to Abraham thy father;
[4]andI have multiplied thy seed as stars of the heavens, and I have given to thy seed all these lands; and blessed themselves in thy seed have all nations of the earth;
[5]becausethat Abraham hath hearkened to My voice, and keepeth My charge, My commands, My statutes, and My laws.'
[6]AndIsaac dwelleth in Gerar;
[7]andmen of the place ask him of his wife, and he saith, `She [is] my sister:' for he hath been afraid to say, `My wife -- lest the men of the place kill me for Rebekah, for she [is] of good appearance.'
[8]Andit cometh to pass, when the days have been prolonged to him there, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looketh through the window, and seeth, and lo, Isaac is playing with Rebekah his wife.
[9]AndAbimelech calleth for Isaac, and saith, `Lo, she [is] surely thy wife; and how hast thou said, She [is] my sister?' and Isaac saith unto him, `Because I said, Lest I die for her.'
[10]AndAbimelech saith, `What [is] this thou hast done to us? as a little thing one of the people had lain with thy wife, and thou hadst brought upon us guilt;'
[11]andAbimelech commandeth all the people, saying, `He who cometh against this man or against his wife, dying doth die.'
[12]AndIsaac soweth in that land, and findeth in that year a hundredfold, and Jehovah blesseth him;
[13]andthe man is great, and goeth on, going on and becoming great, till that he hath been very great,
[14]andhe hath possession of a flock, and possession of a herd, and an abundant service; and the Philistines envy him,
[15]andall the wells which his father's servants digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines have stopped them, and fill them with dust.
[16]AndAbimelech saith unto Isaac, `Go from us; for thou hast become much mightier than we;'
[17]andIsaac goeth from thence, and encampeth in the valley of Gerar, and dwelleth there;
[18]andIsaac turneth back, and diggeth the wells of water which they digged in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines do stop after the death of Abraham, and he calleth to them names according to the names which his father called them.
[19]AndIsaac's servants dig in the valley, and find there a well of living water,
[20]andshepherds of Gerar strive with shepherds of Isaac, saying, `The water [is] ours;' and he calleth the name of the well `Strife,' because they have striven habitually with him;
[21]andthey dig another well, and they strive also for it, and he calleth its name `Hatred.'
[22]Andhe removeth from thence, and diggeth another well, and they have not striven for it, and he calleth its name Enlargements, and saith, `For -- now hath Jehovah given enlargement to us, and we have been fruitful in the land.'
[23]Andhe goeth up from thence [to] Beer-Sheba,
[24]andJehovah appeareth unto him during that night, and saith, `I [am] the God of Abraham thy father, fear not, for I [am] with thee, and have blessed thee, and have multiplied thy seed, because of Abraham My servant;'
[25]andhe buildeth there an altar, and preacheth in the name of Jehovah, and stretcheth out there his tent, and there Isaac's servants dig a well.
[26]AndAbimelech hath gone unto him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phichol head of his host;
[27]andIsaac saith unto them, `Wherefore have ye come unto me, and ye have hated me, and ye send me away from you?'
[28]Andthey say, `We have certainly seen that Jehovah hath been with thee, and we say, `Let there be, we pray thee, an oath between us, between us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;
[29]donot evil with us, as we have not touched thee, and as we have only done good with thee, and send thee away in peace; thou [art] now blessed of Jehovah.'
[30]Andhe maketh for them a banquet, and they eat and drink,
[31]andrise early in the morning, and swear one to another, and Isaac sendeth them away, and they go from him in peace.
[32]Andit cometh to pass during that day that Isaac's servants come and declare to him concerning the circumstances of the well which they have digged, and say to him, `We have found water;'
[33]andhe calleth it Shebah, [oath,] therefore the name of the city [is] Beer-Sheba, [well of the oath,] unto this day.
[34]AndEsau is a son of forty years, and he taketh a wife, Judith, daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath, daughter of Elon the Hittite,
[35]andthey are a bitterness of spirit to Isaac and to Rebekah.
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