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Chapter
26
1
And there was a famine in the land,
beside
the first famine that was in the days of Abraham.
And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
2-5
And Jehovah/God appeared unto him, and said,
"Go
not down into Egypt . . .
dwell
in the land which I shall tell you of . . . 3
sojourn
in this land,
and
I will be with you,
and
will bless you . . .
for
unto you,
and
unto your seed,
I
will give all these countries,
and
I will perform the oath
which
I swore unto Abraham your father . . . 4
and
I will make your seed to multiply as the stars of heaven,
and
will give unto your seed all these countries;
and
in your 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 beautiful 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 your wife . . .
how
come you said, 'She is my sister?'
And Isaac said unto him, "Because I said, 'Lest I die for her'."
10
And Abimelech said,
"What
is this you have done unto us?
One
of the people might lightly
have
had sexual relations with your wife,
and
you should have brought guiltiness upon us."
11
And 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
Jehovah/God blessed him.
13-14
And the man grew in importance,
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 dug
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
you are much mightier than we."
17
And Isaac departed there,
and
pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar,
and
kept on dwelling in prosperity {yashab} there.
18
And Isaac dug again the wells of water . . .
which
they had dug 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 dug in the valley,
and
found there a well of springing water.
20
And the herdsmen of Gerar
did
strive with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours."
And
he called the name of the well Esek . . .
{name means 'contention'}
because
they strove with him.
21
And they dug another well, and strove for that also . . .
and
he called the name of it Sitnah {name means 'strife'}.
22
And he left there, and dug another well
and
for that they strove not . . .
and
he called the name of it Rehoboth
{name means wide places or street}.
And
he said, "For now Jehovah/God has made room for us,
and
we shall be fruitful in the land."
23
And he went up from there to Beersheba.
{Grace
By Association}
24
And Jehovah/God appeared unto him the same night, and said,
"I
am the 'Elohiym/Godhead of Abraham . . . your father . . .
fear
not, for I am with you, and will bless you,
and
multiply your seed for My servant Abraham's sake."
25
And he built an altar there,
and
called upon the name of Jehovah/God,
and
pitched his tent there.
And there Isaac's servants dug 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,
"Why
do you come to me . . . seeing you hate me,
and
have sent me away from you?"
28-29
And they said,
"We
saw certainly that Jehovah/God was with you
and
we said, "Let there be now an oath between us,
even
between us and you,
and
let us make a covenant with you 29
that
you will do us no harm,
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 Jehovah/God."
30 And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
31
And they rose up early in the morning,
and
swore 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 dug,
and
said unto him,
"We
have found water."
33 And he called it Shebah {name means 'an oath'}.
Therefore
the name of the city is Beer-Sheba unto this day
{name means well of the 'seven-fold oath'}.
34-35
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 spirit'/mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
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