Verse 13
Genesis 26:13
Bible in Basic English
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And his wealth became very great, increasing more and more;
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּגְדַּ֖ל הָ/אִ֑ישׁ וַ/יֵּ֤לֶךְ הָלוֹךְ֙ וְ/גָדֵ֔ל עַ֥ד כִּֽי גָדַ֖ל מְאֹֽד
English Translation
And the man grew and went, going and growing until he became very great.
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Chapter 26 Context
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Then came a time of great need in the land, like that which had been before in the days of Abraham....
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And the Lord came to him in a vision and said, Do not go down to Egypt; keep in the land of which I...
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Keep in this land, and I will be with you and give you my blessing; for to you and to your seed will...
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I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and will give them all these lands, and yo...
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Because Abraham gave ear to my voice and kept my words, my rules, my orders, and my laws.
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So Isaac went on living in Gerar;
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And when he was questioned by the men of the place about his wife, he said, She is my sister; fearin...
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And when he had been there for some time, Abimelech, king of the Philistines, looking through a wind...
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And he said to Isaac, It is clear that she is your wife: why then did you say, She is my sister? And...
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Then Abimelech said, What have you done to us? one of the people might well have had connection with...
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And Abimelech gave orders to his people that anyone touching Isaac or his wife was to be put to deat...
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Now Isaac, planting seed in that land, got in the same year fruit a hundred times as much, for the b...
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And his wealth became very great, increasing more and more;
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For he had great wealth of flocks and herds and great numbers of servants; so that the Philistines w...
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Now all the water-holes, which his father's servants had made in the days of Abraham, had been stopp...
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And Abimelech said to Isaac, Go away from us, for you are stronger than we are.
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So Isaac went away from there, and put up his tents in the valley of Gerar, making his living-place...
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And he made again the water-holes which had been made in the days of Abraham his father, and which h...
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Now Isaac's servants made holes in the valley, and came to a spring of flowing water.
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But the herdmen of Gerar had a fight with Isaac's herdmen, for they said, The spring is ours: so he...
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Then they made another water-hole, and there was a fight about that, so he gave it the name of Sitna...
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Then he went away from there, and made another water-hole, about which there was no fighting: so he...
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And from there he went on to Beer-sheba.
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That night the Lord came to him in a vision, and said, I am the God (Elohim) of your father Abraham:...
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Then he made an altar there, and gave worship to the name of the Lord, and he put up his tents there...
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And Abimelech had come to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his friend and Phicol, the captain of his ar...
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And Isaac said to them, Why have you come to me, seeing that in your hate for me you sent me away fr...
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And they said, We saw clearly that the Lord was with you: so we said, Let there be an oath between u...
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That you will do us no damage, even as we put no hand on you, and did you nothing but good, and sent...
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Then he made a feast for them, and they all had food and drink.
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And early in the morning they took an oath one to the other: then Isaac sent them away and they went...
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And that day Isaac's servants came to him and gave him word of the water-hole which they had made, a...
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And he gave it the name of Shibah: so the name of that town is Beer-sheba to this day.
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And when Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, a...
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And Isaac and Rebekah had grief of mind because of them.
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