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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Genesis 26 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/genesis/26.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/genesis/26-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CEV</a> > Genesis 26</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/25.htm" title="Genesis 25">◄</a> Genesis 26 <a href="../genesis/27.htm" title="Genesis 27">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s1">Isaac and Abimelech</h3><p class="par"><span class="v0_26_1"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.26.1" class="v0_26_1">1</span>Once during Abraham's lifetime, the fields had not produced enough grain, and now the same thing happened. So Isaac went to King Abimelech of the Philistines in the land of Gerar, </span><span class="v0_26_2"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.26.2" class="v0_26_2">2</span>because the <span class="nd">Lord</span> had appeared to Isaac and said:</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v0_26_2">Isaac, stay away from Egypt! I will show you where I want you to go. </span><span class="v0_26_3"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.26.3" class="v0_26_3">3</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.26.3!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> You will live there as a foreigner, but I will be with you and bless you. I will keep my promise to your father Abraham by giving this land to you and your descendants.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v0_26_4"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.26.4" class="v0_26_4">4</span>I will give you as many descendants as there are stars in the sky, and I will give your descendants all of this land. They will be a blessing to every nation on earth,<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.26.4!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v0_26_5"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.26.5" class="v0_26_5">5</span>because Abraham did everything I told him to do.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_26_6"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.26.6" class="v0_26_6">6</span>Isaac moved to Gerar </span><span class="v0_26_7"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.26.7" class="v0_26_7">7</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.26.7!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> with his beautiful wife Rebekah. He was afraid that someone might kill him to get her, and so he told everyone that Rebekah was his sister. </span><span class="v0_26_8"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.26.8" class="v0_26_8">8</span>After Isaac had been there a long time, King Abimelech looked out a window and saw Isaac hugging and kissing Rebekah. </span><span class="v0_26_9"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.26.9" class="v0_26_9">9</span>Abimelech called him in and said, “Rebekah must be your wife! Why did you say she is your sister?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_26_9">“Because I thought someone would kill me,” Isaac answered.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_26_10"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.26.10" class="v0_26_10">10</span>“Don't you know what you've done?” Abimelech exclaimed. “If someone had slept with her, you would have made our whole nation guilty!” </span><span class="v0_26_11"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.26.11" class="v0_26_11">11</span>Then Abimelech warned his people that anyone who even touched Isaac or Rebekah would be put to death.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_26_12"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.26.12" class="v0_26_12">12</span>Isaac planted grain and had a good harvest that same year. The <span class="nd">Lord</span> blessed him, </span><span class="v0_26_13"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.26.13" class="v0_26_13">13</span>and Isaac was so successful that he became very rich. </span><span class="v0_26_14"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.26.14" class="v0_26_14">14</span>In fact, the Philistines were jealous of the large number of sheep, goats, and slaves that Isaac owned, </span><span class="v0_26_15"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.26.15" class="v0_26_15">15</span>and they stopped up the wells that Abraham's servants had dug before his death. </span><span class="v0_26_16"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.26.16" class="v0_26_16">16</span>Finally, Abimelech said, “Isaac, I want you to leave our country. You have become too powerful to stay here.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_26_17"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.26.17" class="v0_26_17">17</span>Isaac left and settled in Gerar Valley, </span><span class="v0_26_18"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.26.18" class="v0_26_18">18</span>where he cleaned out those wells that the Philistines had stopped up. Isaac also gave each of the wells the same name<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.26.18!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> that Abraham had given to them. </span><span class="v0_26_19"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.26.19" class="v0_26_19">19</span>While his servants were digging in the valley, they found a spring-fed well. </span><span class="v0_26_20"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.26.20" class="v0_26_20">20</span>But the shepherds of Gerar Valley quarreled with Isaac's shepherds and claimed the water belonged to them. So this well was named “Quarrel,” because they had quarreled with Isaac.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_26_21"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.26.21" class="v0_26_21">21</span>Isaac's servants dug another well, and the shepherds also quarreled about it. So that well was named “Jealous.” </span><span class="v0_26_22"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.26.22" class="v0_26_22">22</span>Finally, they dug one more well. There was no quarreling this time, and the well was named “Lots of Room,” because the <span class="nd">Lord</span> had given them room and would make them very successful.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_26_23"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.26.23" class="v0_26_23">23</span>Isaac went on to Beersheba, </span><span class="v0_26_24"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.26.24" class="v0_26_24">24</span>where the <span class="nd">Lord</span> appeared to him that night and told him, “Don't be afraid! I am the God who was worshiped by your father Abraham, my servant. I will be with you and bless you, and because of Abraham I will give you many descendants.” </span><span class="v0_26_25"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.26.25" class="v0_26_25">25</span>Isaac built an altar there and worshiped the <span class="nd">Lord</span>. Then he set up camp, and his servants started digging a well.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_26_26"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.26.26" class="v0_26_26">26</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.26.26!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Meanwhile, Abimelech had left Gerar and was taking his advisor Ahuzzath and his army commander Phicol to see Isaac. </span><span class="v0_26_27"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.26.27" class="v0_26_27">27</span>When they arrived, Isaac asked, “Why are you here? Didn't you send me away because you hated me?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_26_28"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.26.28" class="v0_26_28">28</span>They answered, “We now know for certain that the <span class="nd">Lord</span> is with you, and we have decided there needs to be a peace treaty between you and us. So let's make a solemn agreement </span><span class="v0_26_29"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.26.29" class="v0_26_29">29</span>not to harm each other. Remember, we have never hurt you, and when we sent you away, we let you go in peace. The <span class="nd">Lord</span> has truly blessed you.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_26_30"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.26.30" class="v0_26_30">30</span>Isaac gave a big feast for them, and everyone ate and drank. </span><span class="v0_26_31"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.26.31" class="v0_26_31">31</span>Early the next morning Isaac and the others made a solemn agreement, then he let them go in peace.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_26_32"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.26.32" class="v0_26_32">32</span>Later that same day Isaac's servants came and said, “We've struck water!” </span><span class="v0_26_33"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.26.33" class="v0_26_33">33</span>So Isaac named the well Shibah,<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.26.33!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> and the town is still called Beersheba.<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.26.33!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><h3 class="s1">Esau's Foreign Wives</h3><p class="par"><span class="v0_26_34"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.26.34" class="v0_26_34">34</span>When Esau was 40 years old, he married Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite. </span><span class="v0_26_35"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.26.35" class="v0_26_35">35</span>But these two women brought a lot of grief to Esau's parents Isaac and Rebekah.</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">26.4 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">They … on earth: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “All nations on earth will ask me to bless them.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">26.18 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">gave … same name: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">By doing this Isaac claimed ownership of the wells.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">26.33 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Shibah: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">In Hebrew “Shibah” sounds something like “good luck” and “promise.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">26.33 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Beersheba: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Meaning “Well of Good Fortune” or “Peace Treaty Well.”</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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