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And Isaac went to Gerar, to King Abimelech of the Philistines. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> appeared to Isaac<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-695a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; settle in the land that I shall show you. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Reside in this land as an alien, and I will be with you, and will bless you; for to you and to your descendants I will give all these lands, and I will fulfill the oath that I swore to your father Abraham. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven, and will give to your offspring all these lands; and all the nations of the earth shall gain blessing for themselves through your offspring, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>So Isaac settled in Gerar. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister”; for he was afraid to say, “My wife,” thinking, “or else the men of the place might kill me for the sake of Rebekah, because she is attractive in appearance.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>When Isaac had been there a long time, King Abimelech of the Philistines looked out of a window and saw him fondling his wife Rebekah. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>So Abimelech called for Isaac, and said, “So she is your wife! Why then did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac said to him, “Because I thought I might die because of her.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, “Whoever touches this man or his wife shall be put to death.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>Isaac sowed seed in that land, and in the same year reaped a hundredfold. The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> blessed him, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>and the man became rich; he prospered more and more until he became very wealthy. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>He had possessions of flocks and herds, and a great household, so that the Philistines envied him. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>(Now the Philistines had stopped up and filled with earth all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.) </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>And Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us; you have become too powerful for us.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>So Isaac departed from there and camped in the valley of Gerar and settled there. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>Isaac dug again the wells of water that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham; for the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham; and he gave them the names that his father had given them. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>But when Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found there a well of spring water, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>the herders of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herders, saying, “The water is ours.” So he called the well Esek,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-713b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> because they contended with him. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that one also; so he called it Sitnah.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-714c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>He moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it; so he called it Rehoboth,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-715d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> saying, “Now the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>From there he went up to Beer-sheba. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>And that very night the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham; do not be afraid, for I am with you and will bless you and make your offspring numerous for my servant Abraham’s sake.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>So he built an altar there, called on the name of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, and pitched his tent there. And there Isaac’s servants dug a well.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his adviser and Phicol the commander of his army. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, seeing that you hate me and have sent me away from you?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>They said, “We see plainly that the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> has been with you; so we say, let there be an oath between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>so that you will do us no harm, just as we have not touched you and have done to you nothing but good and have sent you away in peace. You are now the blessed of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">30</span>So he made them a feast, and they ate and drank. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">31</span>In the morning they rose early and exchanged oaths; and Isaac set them on their way, and they departed from him in peace. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">32</span>That same day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well that they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water!” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">33</span>He called it Shibah;<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-726e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-726f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote f">f</a>]</span> to this day.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Esau’s Hittite Wives</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">34</span>When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">35</span>and they made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 26:2">Genesis 26:2</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>him</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 26:20">Genesis 26:20</a> <span class='footnote-text'>That is <i>Contention</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 26:21">Genesis 26:21</a> <span class='footnote-text'>That is <i>Enmity</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 26:22">Genesis 26:22</a> <span class='footnote-text'>That is <i>Broad places</i> or <i>Room</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 26:33">Genesis 26:33</a> <span class='footnote-text'>A word resembling the word for <i>oath</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 26:33">Genesis 26:33</a> <span class='footnote-text'>That is <i>Well of the oath</i> or <i>Well of seven</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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