Genesis 26:1-12

1Now there was 1a famine in the land, besides the previous famine that had occurred in the days of Abraham. So Isaac went to Gerar, to 2Abimelech king of the Philistines. 2And the Lord 3appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; 4stay in the land of which I shall tell you. 3Live for a time in this land and 5I will be with you and 6bless you, for 7to you and to your 8descendants I will give all these lands, and I will establish 9the oath which I swore to your father Abraham. 410I will multiply your 11descendants as the stars of heaven, and will give your 12descendants all these lands; and 13by your 14descendants all the nations of the earth 15shall be blessed, 5because Abraham 1617obeyed Me and fulfilled his duty to Me, and kept My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”

6So Isaac lived in Gerar. 7When the men of the place asked about his wife, he said, “18She is my sister,” for he was 19afraid to say, “my wife,” thinking, “20the men of the place might kill me on account of Rebekah, since she is 21beautiful.” 8Now it came about, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down through a window, and saw them, and behold, Isaac was caressing his wife Rebekah. 9Then Abimelech called Isaac and said, “Behold, she certainly is your wife! So how is it that you said, ‘She is my sister’?” And Isaac said to him, “Because I thought, ‘otherwise I might be killed on account of her.’” 10And 22Abimelech said, “What is this that you have done to us? One of the people might easily have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.” 11So Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, “He who 23touches this man or his wife will certainly be put to death.”

12Now Isaac sowed in that land and 24reaped in the same year a hundred times as much. And 25the Lord blessed him,