Genesis 26:8-20
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8 And it came to pass, 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 sporting with Rebekah his wife.
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9 And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife: and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.
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10 And Abimelech 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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11 And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
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12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
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13 And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:
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14 For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
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15 For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.
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16 And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.
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17 And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
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18 And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines 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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19 And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
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20 And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.