CINXE.COM

<!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 JPS Tanakh 1917</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/jps/genesis/26.htm" /><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="/">Bible</a> > <a href="../">JPS Tanakh 1917</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">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><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 unto 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 swore 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 by thy seed shall all the nations of the earth bless themselves; <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/26-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>because that Abraham hearkened to My voice, and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.’ <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 the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah, because she is 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 because of 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 easily have lain with thy wife, and thou wouldest 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.’ <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 a hundred-fold; 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. <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 living 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 <span class="fn"><a href="#ftn">a</a></span>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 <span class="fn"><a href="#ftn">b</a></span>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 <span class="fn"><a href="#ftn">c</a></span>Rehoboth; and he said: ‘For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/26-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba. <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.’ <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. <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 swore 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><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 bitterness of spirit unto Isaac and to Rebekah.<hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><br>{fn: a} That is, Contention.<br>{fn: b} That is, Enmity.<br>{fn: c} That is, Room.</span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<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="//biblescan.com/mpad/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"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /> <table align="center" width="90%" style="max-width:900px"><tr><td> <div id="rcjsload_a957f3"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> (function() { var referer="";try{if(referer=document.referrer,"undefined"==typeof referer||""==referer)throw"undefined"}catch(exception){referer=document.location.href,(""==referer||"undefined"==typeof referer)&&(referer=document.URL)}referer=referer.substr(0,700); var rcds = document.getElementById("rcjsload_a957f3"); var rcel = document.createElement("script"); rcel.id = 'rc_' + Math.floor(Math.random() * 1000); rcel.type = 'text/javascript'; rcel.src = "https://trends.revcontent.com/serve.js.php?w=111176&t="+rcel.id+"&c="+(new Date()).getTime()+"&width="+(window.outerWidth || document.documentElement.clientWidth)+"&referer="+encodeURIComponent(referer); rcel.async = true; rcds.appendChild(rcel); })(); </script> </td></tr></table> <br /><br /> <div class="bot2"> <table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnm2-bhub.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></body></html>