Genesis 26

1And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar. 2And the Yahuah appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell you of: 3Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you; for unto you, and unto your seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham your father; 4And I will make your seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto your seed all these countries; and in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; 5Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws. 6And Isaac dwelt in Gerar: 7And the men of the place asked of his wife; and he said, She my sister: for he feared to say, my wife; lest, , the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she fair to look upon. 8And 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 sporting with Rebekah his wife. 9And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she your wife: and how saidst you, She my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her. 10And Abimelech said, What this you hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with your wife, and you shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us. 11And Abimelech charged all people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death. 12Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the Yahuah blessed him. 13And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great: 14For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him. 15For 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. 16And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for you art much mightier than we. 17And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there. 18And 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. 19And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water. 20And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him. 21And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah. 22And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the Yahuah has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land. 23And he went up from thence to Beersheba. 24And the Yahuah appeared unto him the same night, and said, I the Elohim of Abraham your father: fear not, for I with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my servant Abraham's sake. 25And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the Yahuah, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a well. 26Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army. 27And Isaac said unto them, therefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you? 28And they said, We saw certainly that the Yahuah was with you: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, betwixt us and you, and let us make a covenant with you; 29That you will do us no hurt, as we have not touched you, and as we have done unto you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace: you now the blessed of the Yahuah. 30And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink. 31And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace. 32And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water. 33And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city Beersheba unto this day. 34And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite: 35Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.