Genesis 26 - Israeli Authorized Version

¹ And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Avraham. And Yitzchak went unto Abimelech king of the Plishtim unto Gerar.

² And YY appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:

³ 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 countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Avraham thy father;

⁴ And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;

⁵ Because that Avraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, My Commandments, my statutes, and my Laws.

⁶ And Yitzchak dwelt in Gerar:

⁷ And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.

⁸ And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Plishtim looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Yitzchak was sporting with Rebekah his wife.

⁹ And Abimelech called Yitzchak, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife; and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Yitzchak said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.

¹⁰ And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.

¹¹ And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.

¹² Then Yitzchak sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and YY blessed him.

¹³ And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:

¹⁴ For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Plishtim envied him.

¹⁵ For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Avraham his father, the Plishtim had stopped them, and filled them with earth.

¹⁶ And Abimelech said unto Yitzchak, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.

¹⁷ And Yitzchak departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.

¹⁸ And Yitzchak digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Avraham his father; for the Plishtim had stopped them after the death of Avraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.

¹⁹ And Yitzchak's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.

²⁰ And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Yitzchak's herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.

²¹ And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.

²² And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rechovot; and he said, For now YY hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.

²³ And he went up from thence to Beer-Sheva.

²⁴ And YY appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the Elohim of Avraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Avraham's sake.

²⁵ And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of YY , and pitched his tent there: and there Yitzchak's servants digged a well.

²⁶ Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.

²⁷ And Yitzchak said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?

²⁸ And they said, We saw certainly that YY was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;

²⁹ 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 YY .

³⁰ And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.

³¹ And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Yitzchak sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

³² And it came to pass the same day, that Yitzchak's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.

³³ And he called it Shvah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-Sheva unto this day.

³⁴ And Esav was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:

³⁵ Which were a grief of mind unto Yitzchak and to Rebekah.