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The Prosperity of Yitzchaq and the Wells of the Covenant
And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Yitzchaq went unto Abimelek king of the Philistim unto Gerar.
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And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 appeared unto him, and said, "Go not down into Mitzrayim; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:
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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;
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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;
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Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."
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And Yitzchaq dwelt in Gerar.
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The Sister-Wife Protection and the Rebuke of Abimelek
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 Ribqah; because she was fair to look upon."
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And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelek king of the Philistim looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Yitzchaq was sporting with Ribqah his wife.
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And Abimelek called Yitzchaq, and said, "Behold, of a surety she is thy wife: and how saidst thou, 'She is my sister'?" And Yitzchaq said unto him, "Because I said, 'Lest I die for her.'"
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And Abimelek 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."
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And Abimelek charged all his people, saying, "He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death."
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The Hundredfold Harvest and the Envy of the Philistim
Then Yitzchaq sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 blessed him.
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And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:
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For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistim envied him.
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For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistim had stopped them, and filled them with earth.
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And Abimelek said unto Yitzchaq, "Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we."
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The Restoration of the Wells: Esek, Sitnah, and Rehoboth
And Yitzchaq departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
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And Yitzchaq digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistim 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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And Yitzchaq's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
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And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Yitzchaq's herdmen, saying, "The water is ours": and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.
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And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.
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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 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land."
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The Covenant of Beer-sheba and the Wives of Esaw
And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba.
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And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 appeared unto him the same night, and said, "I am the Alahiym 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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And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, and pitched his tent there: and there Yitzchaq's servants digged a well.
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Then Abimelek went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.
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And Yitzchaq said unto them, "Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?"
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And they said, "We saw certainly that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 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;
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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 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.'"
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And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
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And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Yitzchaq sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
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And it came to pass the same day, that Yitzchaq'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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And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day.
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And Esaw was forty years old when he took to wife Yahudith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
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Which were a grief of mind unto Yitzchaq and to Ribqah.