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¹ And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the dayes of Abraham. And Isaac went vnto Abimelech King of the Philistims, vnto Gerar. ² And the LORD appeared vnto him and said, Goe not downe into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of. ³ Soiourne in this land, and I wil be with thee, and will blesse thee: for vnto thee, and vnto thy seed I will giue all these countreys, and I wil performe the othe, which I sware vnto Abraham thy father. ⁴ And I wil make thy seed to multiply as the starres of heauen, and will giue vnto thy seed all these countreys: and in thy Seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed: ⁵ Because that Abraham obeyed my voyce, and kept my charge, my Commandements, my Statutes and my Lawes.

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 shee was faire to looke vpon. ⁸ And it came to passe when he had bene there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistims 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 suretie she is thy wife: and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said vnto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her. ¹⁰ And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done vnto vs? one of the people might lightly haue lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest haue brought guiltinesse vpon vs. ¹¹ And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, Hee that toucheth this man or his wife, shall surely bee put to death.

¹² Then Isaac sowed in that land, and receiued in the same yeere an hundred fold: & the LORD blessed him. ¹³ And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew vntill he became very great. ¹⁴ For he had possession of flocks, and possession of heards, and great store of seruants, and the Philistims enuied him. ¹⁵ For all the wels which his fathers seruants had digged in the dayes of Abraham his father, the Philistims had stopped them, & filled them with earth. ¹⁶ And Abimelech said vnto Isaac, Goe from vs: for thou art much mightier then we. ¹⁷ And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there. ¹⁸ And Isaac digged againe the wels of water, which they had digged in the dayes of Abraham his father: for the Philistims 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 Isaacs seruants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water. ²⁰ And the heardmen of Gerar did striue with Isaacs heardmen, saying, The water is ours; and hee called the name of the well, Esek, because they stroue with him. ²¹ And they digged another well, and stroue for that also: and hee called the name of it, Sitnah. ²² And he remoued from thence, and digged another well, and for that they stroue not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth: and he said, For now the LORD hath made roome for vs, and we shall be fruitfull in the land. ²³ And he went vp from thence to Beer-sheba. ²⁴ And the LORD appeared vnto him the same night, and saide, I am the God of Abraham thy father: feare not, for I am with thee, and will blesse thee, and multiply thy seede, for my seruant Abrahams sake. ²⁵ And he builded an altar there, and called vpon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaacs seruants digged a well.

²⁶ Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chiefe captaine of his armie. ²⁷ And Isaac saide vnto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and haue sent me away from you? ²⁸ And they said, we saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and wee said, Let there be now an othe betwixt vs, euen betwixt vs and thee, and let vs make a couenant with thee, ²⁹ That thou wilt doe vs no hurt, as we haue not touched thee, and as we haue done vnto thee nothing but good, and haue sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the LORD. ³⁰ And he made them a feast, and they did eate and drinke. ³¹ And they rose vp 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 passe the same day, that Isaacs seruants came, and tolde him concerning the well which they had digged, and said vnto him, we haue found water. ³³ And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the citie is Beer-sheba vnto this day.

³⁴ And Esau was forty yeeres old, when he tooke to wife Iudith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite: ³⁵ Which were a griefe of minde vnto Isaac and to Rebekah.