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| [1]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. |
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| [2]And 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 appeared unto him, and said: 'Go not down unto Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of. |
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| [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 lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore unto Abraham thy father; |
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| [4]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; |
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| [5]Because that Abraham hearkened to My voice, and kept My charg commandments, My statutes, and My laws.' |
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| [6]And Isaac dwelt in Gerar. |
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| [7]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.' |
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| [8]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. |
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| [9]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.' |
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| [10]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.' |
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| [11]And Abimelech charged all the people, saying: 'He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.' |
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| [12]And Isaac sowed in that land, and found in the same year a hundred-fold; and 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 blessed him. |
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| [13]And the man waxed great, and grew more and more until he became very great. |
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| [14]And he had possessions of flocks, and possessions of herds, and a grea household; and the Philistines envied him. |
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| [15]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. |
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| [16]And Abimelech said unto Isaac: 'Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.' |
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| [17]And Isa departed thence, and encamped in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there. |
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| [18]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. |
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| [19]And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of living water. |
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| [20]And the herdmen of Gerar strove with Isaac's herdmen, saying: 'The water is ours.' And he called the name of the well Esek; because they contended with him. |
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| [21]And they digged another well, and they strove for that also. And he called the name of it Sitnah. |
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| [22]And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not. And he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said: 'For now 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.' |
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| [23]And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba. |
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| [24]And 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 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.' |
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| [25]And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name o 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇, and pitched his tent there; and there Isaac's servants digged a well. |
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| [26]Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his host. |
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| [27]And Isaac said unto them: 'Wherefore are ye come unto me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?' |
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| [28]And they said: 'We saw plainly that 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 was with thee; and we said: Let there now be an oat betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee; |
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| [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 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇.' |
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| [30]And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink. |
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| [31]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. |
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| [32]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.' |
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| [33]And he called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day. |
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| [34]And when Esau was forty years old, he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, an Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite. |
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| [35]And they were a bitterness of spirit unto Isaac and t Rebekah. |
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