{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Genesis",
 "chapter": 26,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:"
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "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 Abraham thy father;"
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "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;"
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:"
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "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 for her."
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death."
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him."
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:"
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him."
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "For 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."
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we."
  },
  {
   "v": 17,
   "t": "And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there."
  },
  {
   "v": 18,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 19,
   "t": "And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water."
  },
  {
   "v": 20,
   "t": "And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him."
  },
  {
   "v": 21,
   "t": "And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah."
  },
  {
   "v": 22,
   "t": "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 the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land."
  },
  {
   "v": 23,
   "t": "And he went up from thence to Beersheba."
  },
  {
   "v": 24,
   "t": "And the LORD 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."
  },
  {
   "v": 25,
   "t": "And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a well."
  },
  {
   "v": 26,
   "t": "Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army."
  },
  {
   "v": 27,
   "t": "And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?"
  },
  {
   "v": 28,
   "t": "And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD 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;"
  },
  {
   "v": 29,
   "t": "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 the LORD."
  },
  {
   "v": 30,
   "t": "And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink."
  },
  {
   "v": 31,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 32,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 33,
   "t": "And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day."
  },
  {
   "v": 34,
   "t": "And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:"
  },
  {
   "v": 35,
   "t": "Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah."
  }
 ],
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