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Genesis 26 📜 📕 ↷
God's Promise to Isaac
1 AND when a famine was risen in the land, after that sterility that had chanced in the days of Abraham, Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Palestines into Gerara.📜💬📚
2 And our Lord appeared to him, and said: Go not down into AEgypt, but rest in the land which I shall tell thee.📜💬📚
3 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, accomplishing the oath which I sware to Abraham thy father.📜💬📚
4 And I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven: and I will give to thy posterity all these countries: and in thy seed SHALL BE BLESSED ALL THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH,📜💬📚
5 for because Abraham obeyed my voice, & kept my precepts and commandments, and observed my ceremonies and laws.📜💬📚
Isaac Deceives Abimelech
6 Therefore Isaac abode in Gerara.📜💬📚
7 Who when he was asked by the men of that place concerning his wife, answered: She is my sister; for he was afraid to confess that she was married to him, thinking lest peradventure they would kill him because of her beauty.📜💬📚
8 And when very many days were passed, & he abode there, Abimelech the king of the Palestines looking forth through a window saw him sporting with Rebecca his wife.📜💬📚
9 And calling for him, he said: it is evident that she is thy wife: why didst thou feign her to be thy sister? He answered: I feared lest I should die for her.📜💬📚
10 And Abimelech said: Why hast thou deceived us? Some man of the people might have lien with thy wife, and thou hadst brought upon us a great sin. And he commanded all the people, saying:📜💬📚
11 He that shall touch this man's wife, dying shall die.📜💬📚
Isaac's Prosperity
12 And Isaac sowed in that land, and he found that same year and hundred fold: and our Lord blessed him.📜💬📚
13 And the man was made rich, and he went prospering and increasing, till he was made exceeding great:📜💬📚
14 and he had also possessions of sheep and of herds, and a very great family. For this the Palestines envying him,📜💬📚
15 stopped at that time all the wells, that the servants of his father Abraham had digged, filling them up with earth:📜💬📚
16 in so much that Abimelech himself said to Isaac: Depart from us, because thou art become mightier than we a great deal.📜💬📚
17 And departing, to come to the Torrent of Gerara, and to dwell there,📜💬📚
18 again he digged other wells, which the servants of his father Abraham had digged, and which after his death the Philistines had stopped up of old: & he called them by the same names which his father before had called them.📜💬📚
19 And they digged in the Torrent, and found living water:📜💬📚
20 but there also the pastors of Gerara made a brawl against the pastors of Isaac, saying: it is our water. For which cause he called the name of the well, by occasion of that which had happened, Calumny.📜💬📚
21 And they digged also an other; and for that they brawled likewise, and he called the name of it, Enmity.📜💬📚
22 Going forward from thence he digged an other well, for which they contended not: therefore he called the name thereof, Latitude, saying: Now hath our Lord dilated us, and made us to increase upon the earth.📜💬📚
23 And he went up from that place unto Bersabee,📜💬📚
24 Where our Lord appeared to him that same night, saying: I am the God of Abraham thy father, do not fear, because I am with thee: I will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.📜💬📚
25 Therefore he builded there an altar: and having called upon the name of our Lord, he pitched his tent: & commanded his servants that they should dig a well.📜💬📚
Isaac's Covenant with Abimelech
26 To the which place when there were come from Gerara Abimelech, and Ocozath his friend, & Phicol chief Captain of his soldiers,📜💬📚
27 Isaac spake to them: Why are ye come to me a man whom you hated, and have thrust out from you?📜💬📚
28 Who 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 league,📜💬📚
29 that thou do us no harm, as we also have touched nothing of thine, neither have we done that which might hurt thee: but with peace have we dismissed thee increased with the blessing of the Lord.📜💬📚
30 Therefore he made them a feast, and after they had eaten and drunken,📜💬📚
31 Arising in the morning, they sware one to an other: and Isaac dismissed them peaceably into their place.📜💬📚
32 And behold the same day came the servants of Isaac telling him of a well, which they had digged, and saying: We have found water.📜💬📚
33 Whereupon he called it Abundance: and the name of the city was given Bersabee, even unto this present day.📜💬📚
Esau's Wives
34 But Esau being forty years old married wives, Judith the daughter of Beeri the hethite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon of the same place:📜💬📚
35 Both which had offended the mind of Isaac and Rebecca.📜💬📚
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