1 - And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham - . And Isaac - went unto Abimelech - king of the Philistines unto Gerar - .
2 - And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt - ; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:
3 - Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham - thy father;
4 - And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
5 - Because that Abraham - obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
6 - And Isaac - dwelt in Gerar - :
7 - And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah - ; because she was fair to look upon.
8 - And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech - king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac - was sporting with Rebekah - his wife.
9 - 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.
10 - 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.
11 - And Abimelech - charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth 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 the LORD blessed him.
13 - And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:
14 - For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
15 - 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.
16 - And Abimelech - said unto Isaac - , Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.
17 - And Isaac - departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar - , and dwelt there.
18 - 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.
19 - And Isaac - 's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
20 - 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.
21 - And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah - .
22 - 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.
23 - And he went up from thence to Beersheba - .
24 - 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.
25 - 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.
26 - Then Abimelech - went to him from Gerar - , and Ahuzzath - one of his friends, and Phichol - the chief captain of his army.
27 - And Isaac - said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?
28 - And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;
29 - That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the LORD.
30 - And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
31 - And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac - sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
32 - And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac - 's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.
33 - And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba - unto this day.
34 - And Esau - was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri - the Hittite, and Bashemath - the daughter of Elon - the Hittite:
35 - Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac - and to Rebekah - .