1750 Challoner Revision of the Douay-Rheims (DR)

Genesis 26

1 Isaac because of famine went to Gerar. 2 God instructeth, and blesseth him. 7 He is reproved by Abimelech for denying his wife. 12 He groweth rich. 18 He diggeth Esek, Sitnah, and Rehoboth. 26 Abimelech maketh a covenant with him at Beer-sheba. 34 Esau's wives.

 26:1 ¶ And when a famine came in the land, after that barrenness which had happened in the days of Abraham, Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Palestines, to Gerara.

 26:2 And the Lord appeared to him, and said: Go not down into Egypt, but stay in the land that I shall tell thee.

 26:3 And sojourn in it, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee: for to thee and to thy seed I will give all these countries, to fulfil the oath which I swore to Abraham thy father.

 26:4 And I will multiply thy seed like the stars of heaven: and I will give to thy posterity all these countries: and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.

 26:5 Because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my precepts and commandments, and observed my ceremonies and laws.

 26:6 ¶ So Isaac abode in Gerara.

 26:7 And when he was asked by the men of that place, concerning his wife, he answered: She is my sister: for he was afraid to confess that she was his wife, thinking lest perhaps they would kill him because of her beauty.

 26:8 And when very many days were passed, and he abode there, Abimelech, king of the Palestines, looking out through a window, saw him playing with Rebecca, his wife.

 26:9 And calling for him, he said: It is evident she is thy wife: why didst thou feign her to be thy sister? He answered: I feared lest I should die for her sake.

 26:10 And Abimelech said: Why hast thou deceived us? Some man of the people might have lain with thy wife, and thou hadst brought upon us a great sin. And he commanded all the people, saying:

 26:11 He that shall touch this man's wife, shall surely be put to death.

 26:12 And Isaac sowed in that land, and he found that same year a hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him.

 26:13 And the man was enriched, and he went on prospering and increasing, till he became exceeding great.

 26:14 And he had possessions of sheep and of herds, and a very great family. Wherefore the Palestines envying him,

 26:15 Stopped up at that time all the wells, that the servants of his father, Abraham, had digged, filling them up with earth:

 26:16 Insomuch that Abimelech himself said to Isaac: Depart from us, for thou art become much mightier than we.

 26:17 ¶ So he departed, and came to the torrent of Gerara, to dwell there:

 26:18 And he digged again other wells, which the servants of his father, Abraham, had digged, and which, after his death, the Philistines had of old stopped up: and he called them by the same names, by which his father before had called them.

 26:19 And they digged in the torrent, and found living water:

 26:20 But there also the herdsmen of Gerara strove against the herdsmen of Isaac, saying: It is our water. Wherefore he called the name of the well, on occasion of that which had happened, Calumny.

 26:21 And they digged also another; and for that they quarrelled likewise, and he called the name of it, Enmity.

 26:22 Going forward from thence, he digged another well, for which they contended not; therefore he called the name thereof, Latitude, saying: Now hath the Lord given us room, and made us to increase upon the earth.

 26:23 And he went up from that place to Bersabee,

 26:24 Where the Lord appeared to him that same night, saying: I am the God of Abraham thy father, do not fear, for I am with thee: I will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.

 26:25 And he built there an altar: and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent; and commanded his servants to dig a well.

 26:26 ¶ To which place when Abimelech, and Ochozath his friend, and Phicol chief captain of his soldiers, came from Gerara,

 26:27 Isaac said to them: Why are ye come to me, a man whom you hate, and have thrust out from you?

 26:28 And they answered: We saw that the Lord is with thee, and therefore we said: Let there be an oath between us, and let us make a covenant,

 26:29 That thou do us no harm, as we on our part have touched nothing of thine, nor have done any thing to hurt thee; but with peace have sent thee away, increased with the blessing of the Lord.

 26:30 And he made them a feast, and after they had eaten and drunk:

 26:31 Arising in the morning, they swore one to another: and Isaac sent them away peaceably to their own home.

 26:32 And behold, the same day the servants of Isaac came, telling him of a well which they had digged, and saying: We have found water.

 26:33 Whereupon he called it Abundance: and the name of the city was called Bersabee, even to this day.

 26:34 ¶ And Esau being forty years old, married wives, Judith, the daughter of Beeri, the Hethite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon, of the same place.

 26:35 And they both offended the mind of Isaac and Rebecca.