# Genesis 26

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/26

Lumin’s own translation, drafted with AI from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, checked verse by verse against them, and approved by Lumin. Brackets mark verses not found in the earliest manuscripts.

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1. There was a famine in the land, besides the earlier famine that had happened in Abraham’s time, and Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.
2. Yahweh appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.
3. Stay as a foreigner in this land, and I will be with you and bless you. For to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham.
4. I will make your offspring as many as the stars in the sky and will give your offspring all these lands, and through your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed,
5. because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”
6. So Isaac stayed in Gerar.
7. When the men of the place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” because he was afraid to say, “My wife.” He thought, “The men of the place might kill me because of Rebekah, since she is beautiful.”
8. When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down through a window and saw Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.
9. So Abimelech called for Isaac and said, “So she is really your wife! How could you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac said to him, “Because I thought I might die because of her.”
10. Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us.”
11. So Abimelech gave orders to all the people: “Whoever touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”
12. Isaac planted crops in that land, and in that year he reaped a hundred times what he sowed. Yahweh blessed him.
13. The man became rich, and he kept growing richer until he was very wealthy.
14. He had flocks and herds and a great household of servants, so that the Philistines envied him.
15. Now the Philistines had stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the time of his father Abraham, filling them with dirt.
16. Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, because you have become much too powerful for us.”
17. So Isaac left there, camped in the Valley of Gerar, and settled there.
18. Isaac dug again the wells of water that had been dug in the time of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham’s death, and he gave them the same names his father had given them.
19. Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found a well of fresh running water there.
20. But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, “The water is ours.” So he named the well Esek, because they had disputed with him.
21. Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that one too, so he named it Sitnah.
22. He moved on from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. He named it Rehoboth, saying, “Now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”
23. From there he went up to Beersheba.
24. That night Yahweh appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your offspring for the sake of my servant Abraham.”
25. Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of Yahweh. He pitched his tent there, and there Isaac’s servants dug a well.
26. Then Abimelech came to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath his adviser and Phicol the commander of his army.
27. Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me and sent me away from you?”
28. They said, “We have seen plainly that Yahweh has been with you. So we said, ‘Let there be an oath between us, between us and you. Let us make a covenant with you
29. that you will do us no harm, just as we have not touched you and have done nothing but good to you and have sent you away in peace. You are now the one blessed by Yahweh.’ ”
30. So Isaac made a feast for them, and they ate and drank.
31. Early in the morning they got up and swore an oath to each other. Then Isaac sent them on their way, and they left him in peace.
32. That same day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. They said to him, “We have found water!”
33. He named it Shibah; that is why the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.
34. When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
35. They made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah.

## Nearby chapters

[Genesis 25](https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/25.md)
[Genesis 27](https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/27.md)

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