Genesis Chapter 26:
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Verses from Genesis, Chapter 26 of the Book of Genesis of the Bible.
Isaac and Abimelech
- 1. And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham: and Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.
- 2. And the LORD appeared to him, and said, Do not go down into Egypt; dwell in the land that I tell you;
- 3. Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and I will bless you; for to you and to your descendants I will give all these lands, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to Abraham your father;
- 4. And I will multiply your descendants like the stars of the heavens, and I will give all these lands to your descendants; and through her all the nations of the earth will be blessed;
- 5. Because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my precepts, my statutes, and my laws.
- 6. So Isaac lived in Gerar.
- 7. And the men of that place asked about his wife, and he called her his sister; because he said: She is my wife; lest, he said, the men of this place kill me because of Rebekah; because she was beautiful to look at.
- 8. And it came to pass, as he walked there, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out of a window, and saw, and behold, Isaac was playing with Rebekah his wife.
- 9. Then Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, she is indeed your wife; How then did you say, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I perish because of her.
- 10. And Abimelech said, What is this that thou hast done to us? One of the people would easily have slept with your wife, and you would have brought a crime upon us.
- 11. And Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, Whoever touches this man or his wife will surely die.
- 12. And Isaac sowed in that same land, and reaped in that same year a hundred measures, because the LORD blessed him.
- 13. And the man grew great, and grew great, until he became very great.
- 14. And he had possessions of sheep, and possessions of cattle, and many servants, so that the Philistines envied him.
- 15. And all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham, the Philistines filled in and filled with earth.
- 16. And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Depart from us: for thou art made more powerful than we.
- 17. Then Isaac departed from there, and made his home in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
- 18. And Isaac returned, and dug the wells of water which they dug in the days of Abraham his father, and which the Philistines filled up after the death of Abraham, and he called them by the names by which his father called them.
- 19. And Isaac's servants dug in that valley, and found there a well of living waters.
- 20. And the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with the herdsmen of Isaac, saying, This water is ours. Therefore he called the name of that well Esek, because they contended with him.
- 21. Then they dug another well, and fought over it also; therefore he called her name Sitnah.
- 22. And he went from there, and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it; therefore he called him Rehoboth, and said, Because now the LORD hath enlarged us, and we are increased in this land.
- 23. And he went up from there to Beersheba.
- 24. And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father; Do not be afraid, for I am with you, and I will bless you, and I will multiply your descendants for the sake of Abraham, my servant.
- 25. Then he built an altar there, and called on the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there; and Isaac's servants dug a well there.
- 26. And Abimelech came to him from Gerar, with Auzath his friend, and Phichol the prince of his army.
- 27. And Isaac said unto them, Why have ye come unto me, seeing ye hate me, and cast me out of your company?
- 28. And they said, We have seen clearly that the LORD is with thee; and we said, Let there be now an oath between us, between us and thee; and let us make a covenant with you;
- 29. May you not harm us, just as we did not touch you, and as we did only good to you, and let you go in peace; you are now the blessed of the LORD.
- 30. And he made them a feast, and they ate and drank.
- 31. And they rose up early in the morning, and swore one to another; and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
- 32. And it came to pass that very day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the matter of the well, which they dug, and said unto him, We have found water.
- 33. And he called him Sheba; That is why the name of the city is Beer-sheba to this day.
- 34. And Esau was forty years old, and he took to his wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite;
- 35. Which were bitterness of spirit to Isaac and to Rebekah.
