Verse 13
Genesis 26:13
World English Bible, British Edition
13
The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great.
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
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...
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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.
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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