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So Isaac settled in Gerar.

So Abimelech summoned Isaac and said, "She is really your wife! Why did you say, ‘She is my sister'?" Isaac replied, "Because I thought someone might kill me to get her."

So Abimelech commanded all the people, "Whoever touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."

He had so many sheep and cattle and such a great household of servants that the Philistines became jealous of him.

So the Philistines took dirt and filled up all the wells that his father's servants had dug back in the days of his father Abraham.

So Isaac left there and settled in the Gerar Valley.

the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water belongs to us!" So Isaac named the well Esek because they argued with him about it.

His servants dug another well, but they quarreled over it too, so Isaac named it Sitnah.

Then he moved away from there and dug another well. They did not quarrel over it, so Isaac named it Rehoboth, saying, "For now the Lord has made room for us, and we will prosper in the land."

They replied, "We could plainly see that the Lord is with you. So we decided there should be a pact between us—between us and you. Allow us to make a treaty with you

so that you will not do us any harm, just as we have not harmed you, but have always treated you well before sending you away in peace. Now you are blessed by the Lord ."

So Isaac held a feast for them and they celebrated.

So he named it Shibah; that is why the name of the city has been Beer Sheba to this day.

When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he was almost blind, he called his older son Esau and said to him, "My son!" "Here I am!" Esau replied.

Isaac said, "Since I am so old, I could die at any time.

Then prepare for me some tasty food, the kind I love, and bring it to me. Then I will eat it so that I may bless you before I die."

So his mother told him, "Any curse against you will fall on me, my son! Just obey me! Go and get them for me!"

So he went and got the goats and brought them to his mother. She prepared some tasty food, just the way his father loved it.

Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau, your firstborn. I've done as you told me. Now sit up and eat some of my wild game so that you can bless me."

But Isaac asked his son, "How in the world did you find it so quickly, my son?" "Because the Lord your God brought it to me," he replied.