Genesis (The First Book of Moses, Commonly Called )

Now there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar, to Abimelech king of the Philistines.

And the LORD appeared to him, and said, "Do not go down to Egypt; dwell in the land of which I shall tell you.

I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and will give to your descendants all these lands; and by your descendants all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves:

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

So Isaac dwelt in Gerar.

When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, "She is my sister"; for he feared to say, "My wife," thinking, "lest the men of the place should kill me for the sake of Rebekah"; because she was fair to look upon.

When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out of a window and saw Isaac fondling Rebekah his wife.

So Abimelech called Isaac, and said, "Behold, she is your wife; how then could you say, 'She is my sister'?" Isaac said to him, "Because I thought, 'Lest I die because of her.'"

Abimelech 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 upon us."

So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, "Whoever touches this man or his wife shall be put to death."

And Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. The LORD blessed him,

and the man became rich, and gained more and more until he became very wealthy.

He had possessions of flocks and herds, and a great household, so that the Philistines envied him.

(Now the Philistines had stopped and filled with earth all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father.)

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

So Isaac departed from there, and encamped in the valley of Gerar and dwelt there.

And Isaac dug again the wells of water which had been dug in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham; and he gave them the names which his father had given them.

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

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 contended with him.

Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that also; so he called its name Sitnah.

And he moved from there and dug another well, and over that they did not quarrel; so he called its name Rehoboth, saying, "For now the LORD has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land."

From there he went up to Beersheba.

And the LORD appeared to him the same night and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father; fear not, for I am with you and will bless you and multiply your descendants for my servant Abraham's sake."

So he built an altar there and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there. And there Isaac's servants dug a well.