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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData And there was a famine in the land, besides 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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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData And Jehovah appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt. Dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData 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 sware unto Abraham thy father. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData And I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these lands. And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData And Isaac dwelt in Gerar. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData 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, `said he', the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah. Because she was fair to look upon. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData 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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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData 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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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData 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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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData 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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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData And Isaac sowed in that land, and found in the same year a hundredfold. And Jehovah blessed him. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData And the man waxed great, and grew more and more until he became very great. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData And he had possessions of flocks, and possessions of herds, and a great household. And the Philistines envied him. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Now all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us. For thou art much mightier than we. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData And Isaac departed thence, and encamped in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData 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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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData And the herdsmen of Gerar strove with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, The water is ours. And he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData And they digged another well, and they strove for that also. And he called the name of it Sitnah. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData 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 Jehovah hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData And Jehovah 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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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of Jehovah, and pitched his tent there. And there Isaac's servants digged a well. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his host. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData 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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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData And they said, We saw plainly that Jehovah was with thee. And we said, Let there now be an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee, |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData 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 Jehovah. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another. And Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData 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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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData And he called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData And when Esau was forty years old he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData And they were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah. |
