1There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

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Genesis 12:10, Genesis 12:10, Genesis 25:11, Genesis 25:11, Genesis 21:22

2The Lord appeared to him, and said, "Do not go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.

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Genesis 12:7, Genesis 12:7, Genesis 18:1, Genesis 17:1, Genesis 18:1

3Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

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Genesis 28:15, Genesis 28:15, Psalms 105:9, Psalms 105:9, Genesis 17:8

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

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Acts 3:25, Acts 3:25, Genesis 22:17, Genesis 22:18, Genesis 15:5

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

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Genesis 22:18, Genesis 22:16, Genesis 22:18, Genesis 22:16, Psalms 112:1

6Isaac lived in Gerar.

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Genesis 20:1, Genesis 20:1

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."

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Proverbs 29:25, Proverbs 29:25, Genesis 20:2, Genesis 12:13, Genesis 20:2

8It happened, 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 caressing Rebekah, his wife.

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Isaiah 62:5, Song of Solomon 2:9, Proverbs 5:18, Proverbs 5:19, Proverbs 7:6

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.'"

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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!"

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Genesis 20:9, Genesis 20:10, Genesis 12:18, Genesis 12:19, Genesis 20:9

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

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Psalms 105:15, Psalms 105:15, Genesis 20:6, Genesis 20:6, Proverbs 6:29

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

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Genesis 26:3, Genesis 26:3, Mark 4:8, Mark 4:8, Psalms 67:6

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

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Psalms 112:3, Proverbs 10:22, Psalms 112:3, Proverbs 10:22, Genesis 24:35

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

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Genesis 37:11, Genesis 37:11, 1 Samuel 18:9, Job 1:3, Psalms 112:3

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.

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Genesis 21:30, Genesis 21:30, Genesis 21:25, Genesis 21:25

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

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Exodus 1:9, Exodus 1:9

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

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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.

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Zechariah 13:2, Zechariah 13:2, Psalms 16:4, Numbers 32:38, Hosea 2:17

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

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John 7:38, John 4:10, John 4:11, John 7:38, John 4:10

20The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.

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Genesis 21:25, Genesis 21:25

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

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Ezra 4:6, Ezra 4:6

22He left that place, and dug another well. They did not argue over that one. 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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Exodus 1:7, Genesis 17:6, Exodus 1:7, Genesis 17:6, Psalms 118:5

23He went up from there to Beersheba.

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Judges 20:1, Genesis 21:31, Genesis 46:1, Judges 20:1, Genesis 21:31

24The Lord appeared to him the same night, and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Do not be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my servant Abraham's sake."

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Exodus 3:6, Exodus 3:6, Genesis 15:1, Genesis 15:1, Genesis 17:7

25He built an altar there, and called on the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac's servants dug a well.

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Genesis 13:18, Psalms 116:17, Genesis 13:18, Psalms 116:17, Genesis 12:7

26Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.

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Genesis 21:22, Genesis 21:32, Genesis 20:3, Genesis 21:22, Genesis 21:32

27Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?"

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Genesis 26:16, Genesis 26:16, Judges 11:7, Judges 11:7, Acts 7:9

28They said, "We saw plainly that the Lord was with you. We said, 'Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you,

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Genesis 21:22, Genesis 21:23, Genesis 21:22, Genesis 21:23, Isaiah 61:9

29that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.' You are now the blessed of the Lord."

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Genesis 24:31, Genesis 24:31, Genesis 21:22, Genesis 21:22, Genesis 22:17

30He made them a feast, and they ate and drank.

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Genesis 19:3, Genesis 19:3, Romans 12:18, Hebrews 12:14, Romans 12:18

31They rose up some time in the morning, and swore one to another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

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Genesis 31:44, 1 Samuel 20:16, 1 Samuel 20:17, 1 Samuel 30:15, Genesis 25:33

32It happened the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, "We have found water."

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Proverbs 10:4, Proverbs 10:4, Genesis 26:25, Matthew 7:7, Proverbs 13:4

33He called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.

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Genesis 21:31, Genesis 21:31, Genesis 26:28, Genesis 26:28

34When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.

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Genesis 36:2, Genesis 36:2, Genesis 36:13, Exodus 34:16, Genesis 36:13

35They grieved Isaac's and Rebekah's spirits.

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Genesis 27:46, Genesis 28:2, Genesis 27:46, Genesis 28:2, Genesis 6:2