Gen. 26:1‑35• 1And there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine which was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines to Gerar.
2And Jehovah appeared to him and said, Go not down to Egypt: dwell in the land that I shall tell thee of.
3Sojourn in this land; and I will be with thee and bless thee; for to thee and to thy seed I will give all these lands; and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham thy father.
4And I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and to thy seed I will give all these lands; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
5because 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 him about his wife. And he said, She [is] my sister; for he feared to say, My wife, lest the men of the place slay me on account of Rebecca; because she was fair in countenance.
8And it came to pass when he had been there some time, that Abimelech, king of the Philistines, looked out of the window and saw, and, behold, Isaac [was] sporting with Rebecca his wife.
9And Abimelech called Isaac and said, Behold, she [is] certainly thy wife; and how saidst thou, She [is] my sister? And Isaac said to him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.
10And Abimelech said, What [is] this thou hast done to us? Lightly might one of the people have lain with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought on us a trespass.
11And Abimelech charged all the people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
12And Isaac sowed in that land and found in the same year a hundredfold; and Jehovah blessed him.
13And the man became great, and went forward and grew great; until he became very great.
14And he had possession of flocks and possession of herds, and a great store of servants; and the Philistines envied him.
15And all the wells that his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines stopped them, and filled them with earth.
16And Abimelech said to Isaac, Go from us; for thou art become much mightier than we.
17And Isaac departed, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
18And Isaac again dug the wells of water which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father, and the Philistines had stopped after the death of Abraham; and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
19And the servants of Isaac dug in the valley and found there a well of living water.
20And the herdmen of Gerar strove with Isaac's herdmen, saying, Ours [is] the water. And he called the name of the well Esek , because they quarreled with him.
21And they dug another well; and they contended for that also; and he called the name of it Sitnah .
22And he removed thence, and dug another well, and they strove not for that; and he called the name of it Rehoboth ; and said, For now hath Jehovah made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.
23And thence he went up to Beersheba.
24And Jehovah 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.
25And he built an altar there, and called upon the name of Jehovah, and pitched his tent there; and there Isaac's servants dug a well.
26And Abimelech, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phichol the captain of his host, went to him from Gerar.
27And Isaac said to them, Why are ye come to me, seeing ye hate me and have sent me away from you?
28And they said, We saw certainly that Jehovah is with thee; and we said, Let there now be an oath between us, between us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;
29that thou wilt do us no wrong, 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 blessed of Jehovah.
30And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
31And they rose early in the morning, and swore 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 that they had dug, and said to him, We have found water.
33And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.
34And Esau was forty years old, when he took as wife Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basmath daughter of Elon the Hittite;
35and they were bitterness of spirit to Isaac and Rebecca. (Gen. 26:1‑35)