Verse 4
Genesis 26:4
Free Bible Version
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I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven and I will give them all these lands. All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your descendants,
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
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There was a famine in the country—not the one that happened before in Abraham's time, but a later on...
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The Lord appeared to Isaac and told him, “Don't go to Egypt—live in the country that I tell you to.
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Stay here in this country. I will be with you and I will bless you, because I'm going to give you an...
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I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven and I will give them all these lands...
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because Abraham did what I told him, and kept my requirements, my commands, my regulations, and my l...
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When the men there asked him about his wife, he told them, “She's my sister,” because he was afraid....
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But later on, after he'd been there a while, Abimelech, king of the Philistines, happened to look ou...
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Abimelech sent for Isaac and complained. “From what I saw she's clearly your wife!” he said. “Why on...
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9
“Why would you do this to us?” Abimelech asked. “One of the men here might have slept with your wife...
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10
Abimelech issued orders to all the people, warning them, “Anyone who touches this man or his wife wi...
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11
Isaac sowed grain that year, and the Lord blessed him with a harvest that was a hundred times what h...
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12
He became a rich man, and his wealth steadily increased until he was very rich.
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13
He owned many flocks of sheep and herds of cattle, as well as many slaves. He had so much that the P...
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14
Then Abimelech told Isaac, “You have to leave our country, because you've become much too powerful f...
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15
He unblocked the wells that had been dug in his father Abraham's time—the ones the Philistines had b...
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16
But the herdsmen from Gerar argued with Isaac's herdsmen, claiming, “That's our water!” So Isaac nam...
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He had another well dug, and they argued over that one too. He named the well, “Opposition.”
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18
So they moved on from there and he had another well dug. This time there was no argument so he named...
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19
That night the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am the God (Elohim) of Abraham your father. Don't b...
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20
Isaac built an altar and worshiped the Lord. He also set up his tent, and his servants dug a well th...
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21
Sometime later Abimelech came from Gerar to see Isaac, along with Ahuzzath his advisor, and Phicol t...
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22
“Why have you come to see me?” Isaac asked them. “Previously you hated me and told me to leave!”
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23
“Now we realize that the Lord is with you,” they replied. “So we agreed that we should make a sworn...
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24
You'll promise not to harm us in the same way we've never hurt you. You'll agree that we've always t...
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25
So Isaac had a special meal prepared to celebrate the agreement. They ate and drank,
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26
and got up early in the morning and they each swore oaths to one other. Then Isaac sent them on thei...
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27
It was that very day when Isaac's servants who'd been digging a well came and told him, “We've found...
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28
So Isaac named the well, “Oath,” and that's why the name of the town is “Well of the Oath” (Beersheb...
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When Esau was 40, he married Judith, daughter of Beeri the Hittite, as well as Basemath, daughter of...
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