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1 There was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham.
Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
2 Anu appeared to him:
Do not go into Egypt. Live in the land that I tell you. 3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and bless you. For unto you and your seed, I will give all these countries. I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham your father.
4 I will:
- make your seed to multiply as the stars of heaven
- give to your seed all these countries
In your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.
5 This is because Abraham:
- obeyed my voice
- kept my charge, commandments, statutes, and laws
6 So Isaac dwelt in Gerar.
7 The men of that place asked him of his wife. He said:
He feared to say, that she was his wife as the men might kill her for Rebekah because she was fair to look on.
8 When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window and saw Isaac sporting with Rebekah his wife.
9 Abimelech called Isaac:
11 Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He who touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and Anu blessed him.
13 The man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great.
14 For he had possession of flocks and herds, and great store of servants. The Philistines envied him.
15 The Philistines had stopped all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father. They filled them with earth.
16 Abimelech said to Isaac:
17 Isaac departed and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
18 Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father. He gave them back their old names.
19 Isaac’s servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
20 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.
21 They dug another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.
22 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 Anu hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.
23 He went up from thence to Beer-sheba. 24 Anu appeared to him the same night, and said:
25 He built an altar there, and called on Anu and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac’s servants digged a well.
26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.
27 Isaac said to them:
28 We saw that Anu was with you. So we said, Let there be now an oath between us. Let us make a covenant with you.
29 You will not hurt us, as we have not touched you, and as we have done unto you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace: you are now the blessed of Anu.
30 He made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
31 Early the next morning the men swore an oath to each other. Then Isaac sent them on their way, and they went away peacefully.
32 Isaac’s servants came the same day and told him about the well which they had dug and told him that they had found water.
33 He called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba to this day.
34 Esau was 40 years old when he married:
- Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite
- Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite
35 This was a grief to Isaac and to Rebekah.
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