Isaac will Gerar because of hunger
1 And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham, so it was up Isaac to Abimelech king of the Philistines in Gerar.
2 And the Lord appeared to him and said, Go not down to Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee:
3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and bless you; for unto thee and thy seed will I give all these lands, and the oath that I have sworn to Abraham thy father;
4 And I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and will give your descendants all these lands; and in thy seed shall be blessed all the nations of the earth;
5 So Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
6 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar.
7 And asking them the men of the place about his wife, he said, She is my sister; because he was afraid to say, she is my wife; lest (said he) do not kill me the men of the place for the sake of Rebekah; because it was beautiful in sight.
8 And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked through a window, and saw, and behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.
9 And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, surely she is thy wife; Why did you say: She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said: To Lest I die for her.
10 And Abimelech said, What is this you have done to us? Easily one of the people have lain with your wife, and you would be brought upon us a crime.
11 And Abimelech charged all the people, saying, He that touches this man or his wife shall surely die.
12 And Isaac sowed in that same land, and reaped in the same year hundredfold, because the Lord blessed him.
13 And the man waxed great, and went up aggrandizing, until he became very great;
14 And he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants, so that the Philistines envied him.
15 And all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped and filled with earth.
16 Abimelech also said to Isaac: Turn away from us; because much more powerful you have done than us.
17 And Isaac went from there and made his seat in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
18 And again Isaac, and dug water wells dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines stopped up after the death of Abraham, and called them by the names they called his father.
19 They dug for Isaac's servants in the valley, and found there a well of living waters.
20 And the shepherds of Gerar strove with the shepherds of Isaac, saying, The water is ours. Therefore he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.
21 Then they dug another well, and also strove for him, so he called his name Sitna.
22 And he departed thence, and dug another well, and strove not about him, so he called its name Rehoboth, and said, Why now dropped in the Lord and grow in this land.
23 Then went up from thence to Beersheba,
24 appeared to him the Lord that night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and bless thee, and multiply thy seed for the sake of Abraham my servant.
25 Then he built an altar and called on the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent; and Isaac's servants dug a well.
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