1And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar. 2And Jehovah appeared to him and said: Do not go down into Egypt; dwell in the land of which I shall tell you. 3Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and bless you; for to you and your seed I give all these lands. And I will perform the oath which I swore unto Abraham your father. 4And I will make your seed multiply as the stars of the heavens; I will give to your seed all these lands; and in your Seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed; 5because Abraham has obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws. 6And Isaac dwelt in Gerar. 7And the men of the place asked about his wife. And he said, She is my sister; for he was afraid to say, She is my wife, thinking, Lest the men of the place kill me on account of Rebekah, because she was of a pleasant appearance. 8And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked through a window and saw, and behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife. 9And Abimelech summoned Isaac and said, Behold, surely she is your wife; so why have you said, She is my sister? And Isaac said to him, Because I thought, Lest I die on account of her. 10And Abimelech said, What is this you have done to us? One of the people might soon have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us. 11And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He who touches this man or his wife shall die the death. 12Then Isaac sowed in that land, and got in the same year a hundredfold; and Jehovah blessed him. 13The man became great, and continued on growing in greatness until he became exceedingly great; 14for he had possessions of flocks and possessions of herds and a great number of servants. And the Philistines envied him. 15Now the Philistines had stopped up all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, and they had filled them with dirt. 16And Abimelech said to Isaac, Go away from us, for you have become much mightier than we. 17So Isaac departed from there and pitched his tent in the Valley of Gerar, and dwelt there. 18And Isaac re-dug the wells of water which 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 them by the names which his father had called them. 19Isaac’s servants also dug in the valley, and found a well of running water there. 20But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, The water is ours. So he called the name of the well Esek, because they had contended with him. 21And they dug another well, and they strove over that one also. So he called its name Sitnah. 22And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. So he called its name Rehoboth, because he said, For now Jehovah has made a large place for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land. 23And he went up from there to Beer-sheba. 24And Jehovah appeared to him the same night and said, I am the God of your father Abraham; do not fear, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your seed for My servant Abraham’s sake. 25So he built an altar there and called upon the name of Jehovah. And he pitched his tent there; and there Isaac’s servants dug a well. 26And Abimelech came to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath, one of his friends, and Phicol the commander of his army. 27And Isaac said to them, Why have you come to me, since you hate me and have sent me away from you? 28And they said, We have certainly seen that Jehovah is with you. So we said, Let there now be an oath between us, between you and us; and let us make a covenant with you, 29that you will do us no evil, since we have not touched you, and since we have done nothing to you but good and have sent you away in peace; you being now the blessed of Jehovah. 30And he made them a feast, and they ate and drank. 31And they arose early in the morning and swore an oath with one another; and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace. 32And it came to pass on the same day that Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well which they had dug, and said to him, We have found water. 33And he called it Shebah. Therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba to this day. 34And Esau was forty years old when he took as wives Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite. 35And they were a grief of spirit to Isaac and Rebekah.