1And 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, at Gerar.2And the LORD appeared to him and said to him, "Do not go down to Egypt; dwell in the land which I said to you."3Dwell in this land, and I will be with you and I will bless you, for to you and to your seed I will give all the lands of God, and I will establish the covenant oath which I swore to Abraham your father.4And I will multiply your seed like the stars of the heavens, and I will give to your seed all these lands, and all the nations of the earth will bless themselves in your seed.5Because Abraham listened to my voice and kept my observances, my commandments, my statutes, and my Torah.6And Isaac dwelt in Gerar.7The men of the place asked about his wife, and he said, "She is my sister," for he feared to say, "My wife," lest the men of the place should kill him over Rebekah, for she was good of appearance.8And it happened that, when he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked through the window and saw Isaac laughing with Rebekah his wife.9And Abimelech called to Isaac and said, "Surely, look, she is your wife. How did you say, 'She is my sister'?" And Isaac said to him, "Because I said, 'Lest I die on account of her.'"10And Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people almost lay with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us."11And Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, "The one who touches this man or his wife—death will be put to death."12And Isaac sowed in that land and found in that year a hundredfold, and the LORD blessed him.13And the man became great, and he kept on going and becoming great, until he became very great.14He had flocks of sheep and herds of oxen and many servants, and the Philistines envied him.15And all the wells that his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped up and filled with dirt.16And Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go away from us, for you have become much stronger than us."17And Isaac went from there and encamped by the wadi of Gerar and dwelt there.18And Isaac returned and dug again the wells of water which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines had stopped up after the death of Abraham; and he called them by the names that his father had called them.19And Isaac's servants dug in the wadi and found there a well of living waters.20The shepherds of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's shepherds, saying, "The water is ours." He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.21They dug another well, and they quarreled over it also, and he called its name Sitnah.22And he moved away from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it, and he called its name Rehoboth, and he said, "For now the LORD has enlarged our borders, and we will be fruitful in the land."23He went up from there to Beersheba.24The LORD appeared to him that night and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Do not fear, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your offspring for the sake of Abraham my servant."25He built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD. He pitched his tent there, and Isaac's servants dug a well there.26And Abimelech went to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his friend and Phicol the commander of his army.27And Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, seeing you hated me and sent me away from you?"28They said, "We have seen that the LORD is with you. So let there be an oath between us, between us and you, and let us cut a covenant with you."29If you do evil to us, as we did not touch you and as we did only good to you and sent you away in peace, you are now blessed by the LORD.30He made a feast for them, and they ate and drank.31They rose early in the morning and swore oaths to each other, and Isaac sent them away, and they went from him in peace.32That same day, Isaac's servants came and told him about the well they had dug. They said to him, "We have found water."33He called it Seven for this reason. The name of the city is Beersheba to this day.34Esau was forty years old when he took as wife Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.35They became a bitterness of spirit to Isaac and Rebekah.