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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=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Genesis 26 ERV</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/erv/genesis/26.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/5001.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 4800px), only screen and (max-device-width: 4800px)" href="/4801.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1550px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1550px)" href="/1551.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1250px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1250px)" href="/1251.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1050px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1050px)" href="/1051.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 900px), only screen and (max-device-width: 900px)" href="/901.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 800px), only screen and (max-device-width: 800px)" href="/801.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 575px), only screen and (max-device-width: 575px)" href="/501.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-height: 450px), only screen and (max-device-height: 450px)" href="/h451.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></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="/combine/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="/">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ERV</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">English Revised Version</div><div class="chap"><a name="1" id="1"></a><p class="hdg">God's Promise to Isaac<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../genesis/12.htm">Genesis 12:1-9</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/26-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/26-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of: <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/26-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father; <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/26-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these lands; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/26-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.</p> <p class="hdg">Isaac Deceives Abimelech</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/26-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And Isaac dwelt in Gerar: <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/26-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>and the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, My wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah: because she was fair to look upon. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/26-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/26-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife: and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/26-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lain with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/26-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And Abimelech charged all the people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.</p> <p class="hdg">Isaac's Prosperity</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/26-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And Isaac sowed in that land, and found in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/26-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And the man waxed great, and grew more and more until he became very great: <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/26-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>and he had possessions of flocks, and possessions of herds, and a great household: and the Philistines envied him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/26-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Now 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/26-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/26-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And Isaac departed thence, and encamped in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/26-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/26-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/26-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And the herdmen of Gerar strove with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they contended with him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/26-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And they digged another well, and they strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/26-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: 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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/26-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/26-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And the LORD appeared unto 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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/26-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a well.</p> <p class="hdg">Isaac's Covenant with Abimelech</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/26-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his host. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/26-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore are ye come unto me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you? <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/26-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And they said, We saw plainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there now be an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee; <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/26-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>that thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/26-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/26-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/26-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>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 unto him, We have found water. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/26-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And he called it Shibah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day.</p> <p class="hdg">Esau's Wives</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/26-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And when Esau was forty years old he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite: <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/26-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>and they were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">English Revised Version, 1885<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../genesis/25.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Genesis 25"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Genesis 25" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../genesis/27.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Genesis 27"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Genesis 27" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="/scan/genesis/26-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></body></html>