Verse 4
Genesis 26:4
World English Bible, British Edition
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I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give
all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed,
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/הִרְבֵּיתִ֤י אֶֽת זַרְעֲ/ךָ֙ כְּ/כוֹכְבֵ֣י הַ/שָּׁמַ֔יִם וְ/נָתַתִּ֣י לְ/זַרְעֲ/ךָ֔ אֵ֥ת כָּל הָ/אֲרָצֹ֖ת הָ/אֵ֑ל וְ/הִתְבָּרֲכ֣וּ בְ/זַרְעֲ/ךָ֔ כֹּ֖ל גּוֹיֵ֥י הָ/אָֽרֶץ
English Translation
And I will multiply your offspring like the stars of the heavens, and I will give to your offspring all these lands, and in your offspring, all the nations of the earth will be blessed.
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Chapter 26 Context
1
There was a famine in the land, in addition to the first famine that was
in the days of Abraham. Isa...
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2
The LORD appeared to him, and said, “Don’t go down into Egypt. Live in
the land I will tell you abou...
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3
Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I
will give to you, and to your o...
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4
I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give
all these lands to your offspr...
5
because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments,
my statutes, and my laws...
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6
Isaac lived in Gerar.
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7
The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, “She is my sister,”
for he was afraid to say...
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8
When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines
looked out at a window, and sa...
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9
Abimelech called Isaac, and said, “Behold, surely she is your wife. Why
did you say, ‘She is my sist...
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10
Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the
people might easily have lain with you...
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11
Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, “He who touches
this man or his wife will surely be put...
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12
Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred
times what he planted. The LORD bl...
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13
The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great.
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14
He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household.
The Philistines envied hi...
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15
Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of
Abraham his father, the Philist...
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16
Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier
than we.”
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17
Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar,
and lived there.
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18
Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the
days of Abraham his father, for the Ph...
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19
Isaac’s servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of flowing water.
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20
The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water
is ours.” So he called the na...
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21
They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. So he called
its name Sitnah.
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22
He left that place, and dug another well. They didn’t argue over that
one. So he called it Rehoboth....
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23
He went up from there to Beersheba.
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24
The LORD appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the God (Elohim) of
Abraham your father. Do...
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25
He built an altar there, and called on the LORD’s name, and
pitched his tent there. There Isaac’s se...
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26
Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath his friend,
and Phicol the captain of his army.
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27
Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and
have sent me away from you?”
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28
They said, “We saw plainly that the LORD was with you. We said,
‘Let there now be an oath between us...
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29
that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we
have done to you nothing but good...
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30
He made them a feast, and they ate and drank.
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31
They rose up some time in the morning, and swore an oath to one another.
Isaac sent them away, and t...
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32
The same day, Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well
which they had dug, and said t...
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33
He called it “Shibah”. Therefore the name of the city is “Beersheba” to this day.
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34
When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter
of Beeri the Hittite, and Basema...
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35
They grieved Isaac’s and Rebekah’s spirits.
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