Genesis 26:1-17

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

26 And there was a famine in the land, other than the former famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar, to Abimelech king of the Philistines.

² And the Lord appeared to him and said, Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land of which I will tell you.

³ Dwell temporarily in this land, and I will be with you and will favor you with blessings; for to you and to your descendants I will give all these lands, and I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

⁴ And I will make your descendants to multiply as the stars of the heavens, and will give to your posterity all these lands (kingdoms); and by your Offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, or by Him bless themselves,^(A)

⁵ For Abraham listened to and obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commands, My statutes, and My laws.

⁶ So Isaac stayed in Gerar.

⁷ And the men of the place asked him about his wife, and he said, She is my sister; for he was afraid to say, She is my wife—[thinking], Lest the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah, because she is attractive and is beautiful to look upon.

⁸ When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out of a window and saw Isaac caressing Rebekah his wife.

⁹ And Abimelech called Isaac and said, See here, she is certainly your wife! How did you [dare] say to me, She is my sister? And Isaac said to him, Because I thought, Lest I die on account of her.

¹⁰ And Abimelech said, What is this you have done to us? One of the men might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt and sin upon us.

¹¹ Then Abimelech charged all his people, He who touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.

¹² Then Isaac sowed seed in that land and received in the same year a hundred times as much as he had planted, and the Lord favored him with blessings.

¹³ And the man became great and gained more and more until he became very wealthy and distinguished;

¹⁴ He owned flocks, herds, and a great supply of servants, and the Philistines envied him.

¹⁵ Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had closed and filled with earth.

¹⁶ And Abimelech said to Isaac, Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we are.

¹⁷ So Isaac went away from there and pitched his tent in the Valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.