026:009 Abimelech called Isaac, and said, "Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, 'She is my sister?'" Isaac said to him, "Because I said, 'Lest I die because of her.'" 026:010 Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!" 026:011 Abimelech charged all the people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death." 026:012 Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him. 026:013 The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great. 026:014 He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him. 026:015 Now all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth. 026:016 Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go from us, for you are much mightier than we." 026:017 Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there. 026:018 Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father. For the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them. 026:019 Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water. 026:020 The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him. 026:021 They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. He called the name of it Sitnah. 026:022 He left that place, and dug another well. They didn't argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, "For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land." 026:023 He went up from there to Beersheba. 026:024 Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Don't be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my servant Abraham's sake." 026:025 He built an altar there, and called on the name of Yahweh, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac's servants dug a well. 026:026 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army. 026:027 Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?" 026:028 They said, "We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. We said, 'Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you, 026:029 that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent