These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Genesis 26
Tanakh 35 verses
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And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of . And went unto Abimelech of the Philistines unto Gerar.
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And appeared unto him, and said: ‘Go not down unto ; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of.
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Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore unto thy father;
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Genesis 28:15 Genesis 13:15 Genesis 12:7 Genesis 20:1 Genesis 15:18 Psalm 105:9 Genesis 22:16-18 Hebrews 11:9 Genesis 39:2 Psalm 32:8 Psalm 37:1-6 Isaiah 43:2 Genesis 26:14 Hebrews 11:13-16 Micah 7:20 Psalm 39:12 Genesis 39:21 Philippians 4:9 Genesis 13:17 Genesis 26:12 Hebrews 6:17 Genesis 12:1-2 Genesis 17:8 Isaiah 43:5 - 4 and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of , and will give unto thy seed all these lands; and by thy seed shall all the nations of the earth themselves;
- 5 because that hearkened to My voice, and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.’
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And dwelt in Gerar.
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- 7 And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said: ‘She is my sister’; for he feared to say: ‘My wife’; ‘lest the men of the place should kill me for , because she is fair to look upon.’
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And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, was sporting with his wife.
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- 9 And Abimelech called , and said: ‘Behold, of a surety she is thy wife; and how saidst thou: She is my sister?’ And said unto him: ‘Because I said: Lest I die because of her.’
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And Abimelech said: ‘What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might easily have lain with thy wife, and thou wouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.’
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And Abimelech charged all the people, saying: ‘He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.’
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- 12 And sowed in that land, and found in the same year a hundred-fold; and blessed him.
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And the man waxed great, and grew more and more until he became very great.
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- 14 And he had possessions of flocks, and possessions of herds, and a great household; and the Philistines envied him.
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Now all the wells which his father’s servants had digged in the days of his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.
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And Abimelech said unto : ‘Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.’
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- 17 And departed thence, and encamped in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
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And digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of ; and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
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And Isaac’s servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of living water.
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And the herdmen of Gerar strove with Isaac’s herdmen, saying: ‘The water is ours.’ And he called the of the well Esek; because they contended with him.
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And they digged another well, and they strove for that also. And he called the of it Sitnah.
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And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not. And he called the of it Rehoboth; and he said: ‘For now hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.’
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And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba.
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And appeared unto him the same night, and said: ‘I am the of thy father. Fear not, for I am with thee, and will thee, and multiply thy seed for My Abraham’s sake.’
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Genesis 17:7 Genesis 24:12 Exodus 3:6 Genesis 15:1 Revelation 1:17 Acts 7:32 Psalm 27:1-3 Genesis 28:13 Isaiah 43:1-2 Genesis 22:19 Hebrews 13:6 Isaiah 44:2 Isaiah 41:10 Isaiah 12:2 Isaiah 51:12 Genesis 31:5 Genesis 26:2-4 Genesis 13:16 Isaiah 41:13-15 Luke 12:32 Isaiah 51:7 Matthew 22:32 Psalm 46:1-2 -
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And he builded an there, and called upon the of , and pitched his tent there; and there Isaac’s servants digged a well.
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Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his host.
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And said unto them: ‘Wherefore are ye come unto me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?’
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- 28 And they said: ‘We saw plainly that was with thee; and we said: Let there now be an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a with thee;
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that thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in ; thou art now the blessed of .’
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And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
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- 31 And they rose up betimes in the morning, and swore one to another; and sent them away, and they departed from him in .
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And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him: ‘We have found water.’
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And he called it Shibah. Therefore the of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day.
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And when was forty years old, he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
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And they were a bitterness of unto and to .
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