Genesis 26:1-35 And there was a famine in the land, besides the famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines to Gerar.

VIN⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ And there was a famine in the land, besides the famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines to Gerar. ² The LORD appeared to him, and said, "Do not go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about. ³ Stay in this land, and I will be with you and bless you, for to you and to your seed I will give all these lands. And I will cause to rise My oath which I swore to your father Abraham. ⁴ I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed, ⁵ because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws." ⁶ So Isaac settled in Gerar. ⁷ When the men of the place asked concerning his wife, he said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "my wife," thinking "the men of the place will kill me on account of Rebekah, for she was beautiful." ⁸ When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife. ⁹ And Abimelech called Isaac and said, "Surely she is your wife. Now why did you say 'She is my sister'?" And Isaac said to him, "Because I thought I would die on account of her." ¹⁰ And Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have slept with your wife! Then you would have brought guilt upon us!" ¹¹ And Abimelech ordered all the people, saying, He who touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death ¹² Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. the LORD blessed him. ¹³ He became rich, and continued to grow richer until he became very wealthy. ¹⁴ He possessed flocks and herds and a great household. The Philistines envied him. ¹⁵ and all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the time of his father, the Philistines stopped up and filled them with earth. ¹⁶ And Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go away from us, for you have become much too powerful for us." ¹⁷ So Isaac departed from there and camped in the valley of Gerar, and settled there. ¹⁸ Then Isaac dug the water wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham. The Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham. He gave them the same names his father had given them. ¹⁹ Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of flowing water. ²⁰ The herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with the herdsmen of Isaac. They said: "The water is ours!" So he named the well Esek, because they argued with him. ²¹ And they dug another well, and they quarreled over it also. And he called its name Sitnah. ²² He moved on from there and dug another well. They did not quarrel over this one. So he named it Rehoboth (Roomy). He said: "Now the LORD has made room for us. We will prosper in this land." ²³ And from there he went up to Beersheba. ²⁴ That night the LORD appeared to Isaac. the LORD said: "I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, because I am with you. I will bless you and increase the number of your descendants for my servant Abraham's sake." ²⁵ He built an altar there, and called on the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac's servants dug a well. ²⁶ And Abimelech had come to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his friend and Phicol, the captain of his army. ²⁷ And Isaac said to them, Why have you come to me, since you hate me and sent me away from you? ²⁸ They said, "We saw plainly that the LORD was with you. We said, 'Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you, ²⁹ that you may not do us harm just as we have not touched you, but have only done good to you and sent you away in peace. You are now blessed by the LORD." ³⁰ And he made a feast for them, and they ate and drank. ³¹ And early in the morning they took an oath one to the other: then Isaac sent them away and they went on their way in peace. ³² That day Isaac's servants told him about the well they dug. They said: "We have found water." ³³ He called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day. ³⁴ And when Esau was forty years old he took as wife Judith, daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, daughter of Elon the Hittite. ³⁵ Who were a source of grief unto Isaac and to Rebekah.