Esek

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• GEN 26:4–22, engwebp

  ⁴I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed,

  ⁵because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

  ⁶Isaac lived in Gerar.

  ⁷The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “My wife”, lest, he thought, “the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at.”

  ⁸When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.

  ⁹Abimelech called Isaac, and said, “Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac said to him, “Because I said, ‘Lest I die because of her.’”

  ¹⁰Abimelech 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 guilt on us!”

  ¹¹Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”

  ¹²Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. The LORD blessed him.

  ¹³The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great.

  ¹⁴He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.

  ¹⁵Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.

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

  ¹⁷Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.

  ¹⁸Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father, for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.

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

  ²⁰The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” So he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.

  ²¹They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. So he called its name Sitnah.

  ²²He left that place, and dug another well. They didn’t argue over that one. So he called it Rehoboth. He said, “For now the LORD has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”

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