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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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 Douay-Rheims Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><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="/bmcc/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="http://biblehub.com/catholic">Bible</a> > <a href="../">DRB</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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Douay-Rheims Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></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="/catholic/genesis/26-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/genesis/26-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And the Lord appeared to him, and said: Go not down into Egypt, but stay in the land that I shall tell thee. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/genesis/26-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/genesis/26-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/genesis/26-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my precepts and commandments, and observed my ceremonies and laws.</p> <p class="hdg">Isaac Deceives Abimelech</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/genesis/26-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>So Isaac abode in Gerara. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/genesis/26-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/genesis/26-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/genesis/26-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/genesis/26-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>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: <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/genesis/26-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>He that shall touch this man's wife, shall surely be put to death.</p> <p class="hdg">Isaac's Prosperity</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/genesis/26-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And Isaac sowed in that land, and he found that same year a hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/genesis/26-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And the man was enriched, and he went on prospering and increasing, till he became exceeding great. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/genesis/26-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And he had possessions of sheep and of herds, and a very great family. Wherefore the Palestines envying him, <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/genesis/26-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Stopped up at that time all the wells, that the servants of his father, Abraham, had digged, filling them up with earth: <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/genesis/26-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Insomuch that Abimelech himself said to Isaac: Depart from us, for thou art become much mightier than we. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/genesis/26-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So he departed, and came to the torrent of Gerara, to dwell there:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/genesis/26-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/genesis/26-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And they digged in the torrent, and found living water: <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/genesis/26-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/genesis/26-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And they digged also another; and for that they quarrelled likewise, and he called the name of it, Enmity. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/genesis/26-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/genesis/26-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And he went up from that place to Bersabee,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/genesis/26-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/genesis/26-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="hdg">Isaac's Covenant with Abimelech</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/genesis/26-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>To which place when Abimelech, and Ochozath his friend, and Phicol chief captain of his soldiers, came from Gerara, <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/genesis/26-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Isaac said to them: Why are ye come to me, a man whom you hate, and have thrust out from you? <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/genesis/26-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>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, <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/genesis/26-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/genesis/26-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And he made them a feast, and after they had eaten and drunk: <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/genesis/26-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Arising in the morning, they swore one to another: and Isaac sent them away peaceably to their own home. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/genesis/26-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/genesis/26-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Whereupon he called it Abundance: and the name of the city was called Bersabee, even to this day.</p> <p class="hdg">Esau's Wives</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/genesis/26-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/genesis/26-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>And they both offended the mind of Isaac and Rebecca.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Douay Rheims Version - Bishop Challoner Revision<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="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>