1 And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine which was in the days of Abraham, and Isaac goes to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar. 2 And YHWH appeared to him and said, “Do not go down toward Egypt, stay in the land concerning which I speak to you, 3 sojourn in this land, and I am with you, and bless you, for to you and to your seed I give all these lands, and I have established the oath which I have sworn to your father Abraham. 4 And I have multiplied your seed as stars of the heavens, and I have given to your seed all these lands. And all nations of the earth have blessed themselves in your Seed. 5 Because that Abraham had listened to My voice, and kept My charge, My commands, My statutes, and My laws.” 6 And Isaac stayed in Gerar. 7 And men of the place asked him of his wife, and he said, “She is my sister”: for he had been afraid to say, “My wife—lest the men of the place kill me for Rebekah, for she is of good appearance.” 8 And it came to pass, when the days had been prolonged to him there, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked through the window, and saw, and look, Isaac was playing with his wife Rebekah. 9 And Abimelech called for Isaac and said, “Look, she is surely your wife. And how could you have said, She is my sister?” And Isaac said to him, “Because I said, Lest I die for her.” 10 And Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? As a little thing one of the people had lain with your wife, and you had brought on us guilt.” 11 And Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, “He who comes against this man or against his wife, dying does die.” 12 And Isaac sewed in that land, and found in that year a hundredfold, and YHWH blessed him. 13 And the man was great, and goes on, going on and becoming great, until he had been very great, 14 and he had possession of a flock, and possession of a herd, and an abundant service. And the Philistines envied him, 15 and all the wells which his father’s servants dug in the days of his father Abraham, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with dust. 16 And Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go from us. For you have become much mightier than we.” 17 And Isaac goes from there, and encamped in the Valley of Gerar, and stayed there. 18 And Isaac turned back, and dug the wells of water which they dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped after the death of Abraham, and he called to them names according to the names which his father called them. 19 And Isaac’s servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of living water, 20 and shepherds of Gerar strove with shepherds of Isaac, saying, “The water is ours.” And he called the name of the well “Strife,” because they had striven habitually with him. 21 And they dug another well, and they strove also for it, and he called its name “Hatred.” 22 And he moved on from there, and dug another well, and they had not striven for it, and he called its name “Enlargements,” and said, “For—now has YHWH given enlargement to us, and we have been fruitful in the land.” 23 And he goes up from there to Beer-Sheba, 24 and YHWH appeared to him during that night and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham, do not fear, for I am with you, and have blessed you, and have multiplied your seed, because of My servant Abraham.” 25 And he built there an altar, and preached in the name of YHWH, and stretched out there his tent, and there Isaac’s servants dug a well. 26 And Abimelech had gone to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phichol head of his host. 27 And Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, and you have hated me, and you send me away from you?” 28 And they said, “We have certainly seen that YHWH has been with you, and we say, Now let there be an oath between us, between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you. 29 Do no evil with us, as we have not touched you, and as we have only done good with you, and send you away in peace. You are now blessed of YHWH.” 30 And he made a banquet for them, and they ate and drank, 31 and rose early in the morning, and swore to one another, and Isaac sent them away, and they go from him in peace. 32 And it came to pass during that day that Isaac’s servants came and declared to him concerning the circumstances of the well which they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.” 33 And he called it Shebah, oath, therefore the name of the city was Beer-Sheba, Well of the Oath, to this day. 34 And Esau was a son of forty years40 years old, and he took a wife, Judith, daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath, daughter of Elon the Hittite, 35 and they are a bitterness of spirit to Isaac and to Rebekah.