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HOLY BIBLE
BOOK OF GENESIS
GENESIS 26
1Now there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine which was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, in Gerar.
2And the LORD appeared to Isaac, and said, Do not go down to Egypt; stay in the land that I will show you.
3Dwell in this land, then I will be with you and bless you; for I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will fulfill the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.
4I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and I will give them all these lands. And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed;
5Because Abraham obeyed My voice, and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.
6So Isaac stayed in Gerar.
7When the men of the place asked him of his wife, he replied, She is my sister. He feared to say, She is my wife, for he thought, the men of this place will kill me for Rebekah, because she is very beautiful.
8After Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines, looked out of a window, and saw Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.
9So Abimelech summoned Isaac, and said, She is surely your wife, why did you say, She is my sister? Isaac replied, Because I thought I might die because of her.
10Abimelech said, What is this you have done to us? One of the men might have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.
11Then Abimelech charged all his people, saying, Anyone that touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.
12Isaac sowed seed in that land, and he reaped a hundred times what he had sown, because the LORD blessed him.
13And the man became great; and prospered more and more until he became very wealthy.
14He had so many flocks and herds, and such a great household, that the Philistines envied him.
15So the Philistines stopped all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham, and filled them with earth.
16Then Abimelech said to Isaac, Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.
17So Isaac left there and settled in the valley of Gerar.
18Isaac reopened the wells which they had dug back in the days of his father Abraham; for the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham. Isaac called them by the same names that his father had called them.
19And Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found a well of spring water there.
20But the herdmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water is ours. So Isaac named the well Esek, because they contended with him.
21And his servants dug another well, but they quarreled over that one also; so he called it Sitnah.
22Then he moved on from there and dug another well; and for that they did not quarrel. So he called it Rehoboth, saying, For now the LORD has made room for us, and we will prosper in the land.
23From there Isaac went up to Beer-sheba.
24The LORD appeared to him that night, and said, I am the God of your father Abraham. Fear not, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your offspring for the sake of My servant Abraham.
25So Isaac built an altar there, and called on the name of the LORD. And there he pitched his tent, and there his servants dug a well.
26Then Abimelech came to Isaac from Gerar, along with Ahuzzath his councilor, and Phichol the commander of his army.
27Isaac asked them, Why come to me, seeing you hate me and have sent me away from you?
28And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with you; and we thought, Let there be an oath between you and us, let us make a covenant with you;
29That you will do us no harm, just as we have not harmed you, but have always treated you well before sending you away in peace. You are now the blessed of the LORD.
30So Isaac made them a feast, and they ate and drank.
31Arising early the next morning the men swore an oath to each other. Isaac then bade them farewell, and they departed from him in peace.
32That same day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well they had dug, and said, We've found water.
33So he called it Shibah; that is why to this day the name of the city is Beer-sheba.
34Esau was forty years old when he took as wives, Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
35And they made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah.
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- Relevance: A foundational Orthodox text, ideal for your site’s authoritative exegesis.
- Source: Available in English via Fathers of the Church series (Catholic University of America Press) or CCEL.org (public domain).
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- Relevance: A key Catholic commentary, complementing Orthodox perspectives.
- Source: Public domain, available via NewAdvent.org or Fathers of the Church series.
- St. Ephrem the Syrian – Commentary on Genesis (Orthodox/Catholic, Syriac tradition, 4th century)
- Description: A verse-by-verse exegesis of Genesis, including Genesis 1, with a focus on literal interpretation and Syriac theological traditions. Ephrem’s concise style emphasizes doctrinal fidelity and spiritual insights.
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