1833 Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB)
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.
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26:1 ¶
And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines to Gerar.
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26:2
And the LORD appeared to him, and said, Go not down into Egypt: dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of.
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26:3
Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee: for to thee, and to thy seed I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham thy father;
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26:4
And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give to thy seed all these countries: and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed:
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26:5
Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
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26:6 ¶
And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:
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26:7
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.
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26:8
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.
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26:9
And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, surely she [is] thy wife: and how saidst thou, She [is] my sister? and Isaac said to him, Because I said, Lest I should die on her account.
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26:10
And Abimelech said, What [is] this thou hast done to us? one of the people might lightly have lain with thy wife, and thou wouldst have brought guiltiness upon us.
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26:11
And Abimelech charged all [his] people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
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26:12
Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year a hundred-fold: and the LORD blessed him:
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26:13
And the man became great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:
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26:14
For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and very many servants: And the Philistines envied him.
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26:15
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.
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26:16
And Abimelech said to Isaac, Go from us: for thou art much mightier than we.
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26:17 ¶
And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
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26:18
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.
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26:19
And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
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26:20
And the herdmen of Gerar contended with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water [is] ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.
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26:21
And they digged another well, and contended for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.
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26:22
And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they did not contend: 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.
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26:23
And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba.
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26:24
And the LORD appeared to 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.
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26:25
And he built an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a well.
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26:26 ¶
Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.
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26:27
And Isaac said to them, Why come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?
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26:28
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;
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26:29
That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done to thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou [art] now the blessed of the LORD.
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26:30
And he made them a feast, and they ate and drank.
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26:31
And they rose betimes in the morning, and swore one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
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26:32
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 to him, We have found water.
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26:33
And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city [is] Beer-sheba to this day.
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26:34 ¶
And Esau was forty years old when he took for a wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
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26:35
Who were a grief of mind to Isaac and Rebekah.