GENESIS Chapter 26
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26:1 There was
another famine in the land besides the earlier one during the time of
Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the
Philistines, at Gerar. |
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26:2 The LORD had
appeared to Isaac and had said, "Do not go to Egypt; stay in this land,
where I tell you to stay. |
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26:3
Live here,
and I will be with you and bless you. I am going to give all this territory
to you and to your descendants. I will keep the promise I made to your father
Abraham. |
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26:4 I will give
you as many descendants as there are stars in the sky, and I will give them
all this territory. All the nations will ask me to bless them as I have
blessed your descendants. |
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26:5 I will bless
you, because Abraham obeyed me and kept all my laws and commands." |
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26:6
So Isaac
lived at Gerar. |
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26:7 When the men
there asked about his wife, he said that she was his sister. He would not
admit that she was his wife, because he was afraid that the men there would
kill him to get Rebecca, who was very beautiful. |
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26:8 When Isaac had
been there for some time, King Abimelech looked
down from his window and saw Isaac and Rebecca making love. |
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26:9 Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, "So she is your
wife! Why did you say she was your sister?" He answered, "I thought
I would be killed if I said she was my wife." |
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26:10 "What
have you done to us?" Abimelech said.
"One of my men might easily have slept with your wife, and you would
have been responsible for our guilt." |
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26:11 Abimelech warned all the people: "Anyone who mistreats
this man or his wife will be put to death." |
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26:12 Isaac sowed
crops in that land, and that year he harvested a hundred times as much as he
had sown, because the LORD blessed him. |
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26:13 He continued
to prosper and became a very rich man. |
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26:14 Because he had
many herds of sheep and cattle and many servants, the Philistines were
jealous of him. |
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26:15 So they filled
in all the wells which the servants of his father Abraham had dug while
Abraham was alive. |
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26:16
Then Abimelech said to Isaac, "Leave our country. You have become
more powerful than we are." |
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26:17 So Isaac left
and set up his camp in Gerar Valley, where he
stayed for some time. |
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26:18 He dug once
again the wells which had been dug during the time of Abraham and which the
Philistines had stopped up after Abraham's death. Isaac gave the wells the
same names that his father had given them. |
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26:19 Isaac's
servants dug a well in the valley and found water. |
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26:20 The shepherds
of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's shepherds and said,
"This water belongs to us." So Isaac named the well
"Quarrel." |
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26:21 Isaac's
servants dug another well, and there was a quarrel about that one also, so he
named it "Enmity." |
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26:22 He moved away
from there and dug another well. There was no dispute about this one, so he
named it "Freedom." He said, "Now the LORD has given us
freedom to live in the land, and we will be prosperous here." |
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26:23 Isaac left and
went to Beersheba. |
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26:24 That night the
LORD appeared to him and said, "I am the God of your father Abraham. Do
not be afraid; I am with you. I will bless you and give you many descendants
because of my promise to my servant Abraham." |
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26:25 Isaac built an
altar there and worshiped the LORD. Then he set up his camp there, and his
servants dug another well. |
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26:26 Abimelech came from Gerar with Ahuzzath his adviser and Phicol
the commander of his army to see Isaac. |
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26:27
So Isaac
asked, "Why have you now come to see me, when you were so unfriendly to
me before and made me leave your country?" |
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26:28 They answered,
"Now we know that the LORD is with you, and we think that there should
be a solemn agreement between us. We want you to promise |
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26:29 that you will
not harm us, just as we did not harm you. We were kind to you and let you go
peacefully. Now it is clear that the LORD has blessed you." |
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26:30 Isaac prepared
a feast for them, and they ate and drank. |
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26:31 Early next
morning each man made his promise and sealed it with a vow. Isaac said
good-bye to them, and they parted as friends. |
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26:32 On that day
Isaac's servants came and told him about the well which they had dug. They
said, "We have found water." |
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26:33 He named the
well "Vow." That is how the city of Beersheba got its name. |
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26:34 When Esau was
forty years old, he married two Hittites, Judith the
daughter of Beeri, and Basemath
the daughter of Elon. |
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26:35 They made life
miserable for Isaac and Rebecca. |
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