01:026:009 And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold,
of a surety she
is
thy wife; and how saidst thou, She is my sister?
And Isaac
said
unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.
01:026:010 And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast
done unto us? one
of
the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and
thou
shouldest
have brought guiltiness upon us.
01:026:011 And Abimelech charged all his people, saying,
He that toucheth
this
man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
01:026:012 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received
in the same year
an
hundredfold: and the lord blessed him.
01:026:013 And the man waxed great, and went forward,
and grew until he
became
very great:
01:026:014 For he had possession of flocks, and possession
of herds, and
great
store of servants: and the Philistines envied
him.
01:026:015 For 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.
01:026:016 And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from
us; for thou art much
mightier
than we.
01:026:017 And Isaac departed thence, and pitched
his tent in the valley
of
Gerar, and dwelt there.
01:026:018 And 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.
01:026:019 And Isaac’s servants digged in the
valley, and found there a
well
of springing water.
01:026:020 And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with
Isaac’s herdmen,
saying,
The water is ours: and he called the name of the
well
Esek;
because they strove with him.
01:026:021 And they digged another well, and strove
for that also: and he
called
the name of it Sitnah.
01:026:022 And 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 lord hath made room for us,
and we
shall
be fruitful in the land.
01:026:023 And he went up from thence to Beersheba.
01:026:024 And the lord appeared unto 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.
01:026:025 And he builded an altar there, and called
upon the name of the
lord,
and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac’s
servants
digged
a well.


