Genesis 26:1
There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.
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- Gen 12:10 : 10 There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was sore in the land.
- Gen 20:1-2 : 1 Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foriegner in Gerar. 2 Abraham said about Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
- Gen 21:22-32 : 22 It happened at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his host spoke to Abraham, saying, "God is with you in all that you do. 23 Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner." 24 Abraham said, "I will swear." 25 Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away. 26 Abimelech said, "I don't know who has done this thing. Neither did you tell me, neither did I hear of it, until today." 27 Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant. 28 Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. 29 Abimelech said to Abraham, "What do these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves mean?" 30 He said, "You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well." 31 Therefore he called that place Beersheba,{Beersheba can mean "well of the oath" or "well of seven."} because they both swore there. 32 So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
- Gen 25:11 : 11 It happened after the death of Abraham, that God blessed Isaac, his son. Isaac lived by Beer Lahai Roi.
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6Isaac lived in Gerar.
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15Now all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.
16Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go from us, for you are much mightier than we."
17Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.
18Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father. For the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
19Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
20The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.
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2Yahweh appeared to him, and said, "Don't go down into Egypt. Dwell in the land which I will tell you of.
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10There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was sore in the land.
- Gen 26:25-273 verses76%
25He built an altar there, and called on the name of Yahweh, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac's servants dug a well.
26Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his host.
27Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?"
- Gen 20:1-22 verses76%
1Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foriegner in Gerar.
2Abraham said about Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
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1The famine was severe in the land.
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12Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.
13The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great.
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34Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.
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8It happened, 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 caressing Rebekah, his wife.
9Abimelech called Isaac, and said, "Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, 'She is my sister?'" Isaac said to him, "Because I said, 'Lest I die because of her.'"
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19This is the history of the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham became the father of Isaac.
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62Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi. For he lived in the land of the South.
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5The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
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32So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
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22It happened at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his host spoke to Abraham, saying, "God is with you in all that you do.
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3I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.
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15Abimelech said, "Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you."
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11Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.
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11It happened after the death of Abraham, that God blessed Isaac, his son. Isaac lived by Beer Lahai Roi.
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32It happened the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, "We have found water."
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13There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.