1Now there was another famine in the land,…
2The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, “Do…
3Stay in this land as a foreigner, and…
4I will make your descendants as numerous as…
5because Abraham listened to My voice and kept…
6So Isaac settled in Gerar.
7But when the men of that place asked…
8When Isaac had been there a long time,…
9Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, “So she…
10“What is this you have done to us?”…
11So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, “Whoever…
12Now Isaac sowed seed in the land, and…
13and he became richer and richer, until he…
14He owned so many flocks and herds and…
15So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up…
16Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Depart from us,…
17So Isaac left that place and encamped in…
18Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug…
19Then Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and…
20But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s…
21Then they dug another well and quarreled over…
22He moved on from there and dug another…
23From there Isaac went up to Beersheba,
24and that night the LORD appeared to him…
25So Isaac built an altar there and called…
26Later, Abimelech came to Isaac from Gerar, with…
27“Why have you come to me?” Isaac asked…
28“We can plainly see that the LORD has…
29that you will not harm us, just as…
30So Isaac prepared a feast for them, and…
31And they got up early the next morning…
32On that same day, Isaac’s servants came and…
33So he called it Shibah, and to this…
34When Esau was forty years old, he took…
35And they brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah.
