Verse 6
Genesis 26:6
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
6
So Isaac abode in Gerara.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֵּ֥שֶׁב יִצְחָ֖ק בִּ/גְרָֽר
English Translation
And Isaac dwelt in Gerar.
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Chapter 26 Context
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And when a famine came in the land, after that barrenness which had happened in the days of Abraham,...
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And the Lord appeared to him and said: Go not down into Egypt, but stay in the land that I shall tel...
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And sojourn in it, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee: for to thee and to thy seed I will...
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And I will multiply thy seed like the stars of heaven: and I will give to thy posterity all these co...
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Because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my precepts and commandments, and observed my ceremonies a...
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So Isaac abode in Gerara.
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And when he was asked by the men of that place, concerning his wife, he answered: She is my sister;...
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And when very many days were passed, and he abode there, Abimelech king of the Palestines looking ou...
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And calling for him, he said: It is evident she is thy wife: why didst thou feign her to be thy sist...
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And Abimelech said: Why hadst thou deceived us? Some man of the people might have lain with thy wife...
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He that shall touch this man's wife, shall surely be put to death.
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And Isaac sowed in that land, and he found that same year a hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him.
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And the man was enriched, and he went on prospering and increasing, till he became exceeding great:
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And he had possessions of sheep and of herds, and a very great family. Wherefore the Palestines envy...
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Stopped up at that time all the wells, that the servants of his father Abraham had digged, filling t...
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Insomuch that Abimelech himself said to Isaac: Depart from us, for thou art become much mightier tha...
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So he departed and came to the torrent of Gerara, to dwell there:
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And he digged again other wells, which the servants of his father Abraham had digged, and which, aft...
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And they digged in the torrent, and found living water.
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But there also the herdsmen of Gerara strove against the herdsmen of Isaac, saying: It is our water....
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And they digged also another; and for that they quarreled likewise, and he called the name of it, En...
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Going forward from thence, he digged another well, for which they contended not: therefore he called...
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And he went up from that place to Bersabee,
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Where the Lord appeared to him that same might, saying: I am the God (Elohim) of Abraham thy father;...
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And he built there an altar: and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent: and command...
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To which place when Abimelech, and Ochozath his friend, and Phicol chief captain of his soldiers cam...
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Isaac said to them: Why are ye come to me, a man whom you hate, and have thrust out from you?
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And they answered: We saw that the Lord is with thee, and therefore we said: Let there be an oath be...
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That thou do us no harm, as we on our part have touched nothing of thine, nor have done any thing to...
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And he made them a feast, and after they had eaten and drunk:
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Arising in the morning, they swore one to another: and Isaac sent them away peaceably to their own h...
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And behold the same day the servants of Isaac came, telling him of a well which they had digged, and...
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Whereupon he called it Abundance: and the name of the city was called Bersabee, even to this day.
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And Esau being forty years old, married wives, Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hethite, and Basemat...
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And they both offended the mind of Isaac and Rebecca.
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