1 ¶ Now there was a famine in the land, in addition to the first 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 into Egypt; dwell in the land of which I will tell you:

3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you; for I will give all these countries to you, and to your descendants, and I will fulfill the oath that I swore to Abraham your father;

4 And I will cause your seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give to your descendants all these countries; and in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;

5 Because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

6 ¶ And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:

7 And the men of the place asked him about 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 beautiful to look upon.

8 And it came to pass, after he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out of a window, and saw, Isaac sporting with Rebekah his wife.

9 And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, she is surely your wife: why did you say, She is my sister? And Isaac said to him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.

10 And Abimelech said, What is this you have done to us? one of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guiltiness upon us.

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

12 ¶ Then Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year a hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.

13 And the man became rich, and gained more and more, until he became very wealthy:

14 For he owned flocks, and herds, and many slaves: and the Philistines envied him.

15 For they stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug, in his father Abraham’s time, the Philistines had stopped them up, and filled them with earth.

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

17 And Isaac departed from there, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.

18 And Isaac again dug the wells of water, that they had dug in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.

19 And Isaac’s servants dug in the valley, and found a well of springing water there.

20 And the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they quarreled with him.

21 And they dug another well, and quarreled for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.

22 And he went away from there, and dug another well; and they did not quarrel over that: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.

23 And he went up from there to Beersheba.

24 And the LORD appeared to him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham your father: fear not, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my servant Abraham’s sake.

25 And he built an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac’s servants dug a well.

26 ¶ Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.

27 And Isaac said to them, Why have you come to me, seeing that you hate me, and have sent me away from you?

28 And they said, We have clearly seen that the LORD is with you: and we said, Let there be now an oath between us, between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you;

29 That you will do us no harm, since we have not touched you, and have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace: you are now blessed by the LORD.

30 And he prepared a feast for them, and they ate and drank.

31 And they got up early in the morning, and swore each to the other: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

32 And it so happened the same day, that Isaac’s servants came, to tell him about a well that they had dug, and said to him, We have found water.

33 And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.

34 ¶ 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:

35 Who were a grief of mind to Isaac and to Rebekah.