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Genesis 26:1 (GW)
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There was a famine in the land in addition to the earlier one during Abraham’s time. So Isaac went to King Abimelech of the Philistines in Gerar.

Genesis 26:2 (GW)
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The Lord appeared to Isaac and said, “Don’t go to Egypt. Stay where I tell you.

Genesis 26:3 (GW)
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Live here in this land for a while, and I will be with you and bless you. I will give all these lands to you and your descendants. I will keep the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.

Genesis 26:4 (GW)
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I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and give all these lands to your descendants. Through your descendant all the nations of the earth will be blessed.

Genesis 26:5 (GW)
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I will bless you because Abraham obeyed me and completed the duties, commands, laws, and instructions I gave him.”

Genesis 26:6 (GW)
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So Isaac lived in Gerar.

Genesis 26:7 (GW)
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When the men of that place asked about his wife, Isaac answered, “She’s my sister.” He was afraid to say “my wife.” He thought that the men of that place would kill him to get Rebekah, because she was an attractive woman.

Genesis 26:8 (GW)
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When he had been there a long time, King Abimelech of the Philistines looked out of his window and saw Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.

Genesis 26:9 (GW)
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Abimelech called for Isaac and said, “So she’s really your wife! How could you say, ‘She’s my sister’?” Isaac answered him, “I thought I would be killed because of her.”

Genesis 26:10 (GW)
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Then Abimelech said, “What have you done to us! One of the people might have easily gone to bed with your wife, and then you would have made us guilty of sin.”

Genesis 26:11 (GW)
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So Abimelech ordered his people, “Anyone who touches this man or his wife will be put to death.”

Genesis 26:12 (GW)
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Isaac planted crops in that land. In that same year he harvested a hundred times as much as he had planted because the Lord had blessed him.

Genesis 26:13 (GW)
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He continued to be successful, becoming very rich.

Genesis 26:14 (GW)
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Because he owned so many flocks, herds, and servants, the Philistines became jealous of him.

Genesis 26:15 (GW)
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So the Philistines filled in all the wells that his father’s servants had dug during his father Abraham’s lifetime.

Genesis 26:16 (GW)
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Finally, Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us! You’ve become more powerful than we are.”

Genesis 26:17 (GW)
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So Isaac moved away. He set up his tents in the Gerar Valley and lived there.

Genesis 26:18 (GW)
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He dug out the wells that had been dug during his father Abraham’s lifetime. The Philistines had filled them in after Abraham’s death. He gave them the same names that his father had given them.

Genesis 26:19 (GW)
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Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found a spring-fed well.

Genesis 26:20 (GW)
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The herders from Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herders, claiming, “This water is ours!” So Isaac named the well Esek Argument, because they had argued with him.

Genesis 26:21 (GW)
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Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that one too. So Isaac named it Sitnah Accusation.

Genesis 26:22 (GW)
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He moved on from there and dug another well. They didn’t quarrel over this one. So he named it Rehoboth Roomy and said, “Now the Lord has made room for us, and we will prosper in this land.”

Genesis 26:23 (GW)
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He went from there to Beersheba.

Genesis 26:24 (GW)
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That night the Lord appeared to Isaac, and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Don’t be afraid, because I am with you. I will bless you and increase the number of your descendants for my servant Abraham’s sake.”

Genesis 26:25 (GW)
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So Isaac built an altar there and worshiped the Lord. He also pitched his tent in that place, and his servants dug a well there.

Genesis 26:26 (GW)
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Abimelech, his friend Ahuzzath, and Phicol, the commander of his army, came from Gerar to see Isaac.

Genesis 26:27 (GW)
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Isaac asked them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me and sent me away from you?”

Genesis 26:28 (GW)
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They answered, “We have seen that the Lord is with you. So we thought, ‘There should be a solemn agreement between us.’ We’d like to make an agreement with you

Genesis 26:29 (GW)
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that you will not harm us, since we have not touched you. We have done only good to you and let you go in peace. Now you are blessed by the Lord.”

Genesis 26:30 (GW)
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Isaac prepared a special dinner for them, and they ate and drank.

Genesis 26:31 (GW)
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Early the next morning they exchanged oaths. Then Isaac sent them on their way, and they left peacefully.

Genesis 26:32 (GW)
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That same day Isaac’s servants came and told him about a well they had dug. They said to him, “We’ve found water.”

Genesis 26:33 (GW)
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So he named it Shibah Oath. That is why the name of the city is still Beersheba today.

Genesis 26:34 (GW)
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When Esau was 40 years old, he married Judith, daughter of Beeri the Hittite. He also married Basemath, daughter of Elon the Hittite.