7And the men of the place asked him about his wife; and he said, “She is my sister”; for he feared to say, “She is my wife” for fear that the men of the place would kill him for Rebekah; because she very attractive. 8And when he had been there a long time, Abimelech, king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw Isaac caressing Rebekah, his wife. 9And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, “Look, of a surety she is your wife: and why said you, “She is my sister?” And Isaac told him, “Because I was afraid they might kill me for her”. 10And Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might lightly have lain with your wife, and you should have brought guilt upon us.” 11And Abimelech told all his people, “He that touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death”.

12Then Isaac planted seed in that land, and received in that year a hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him. 13And the man became great, and continued, and grew until he became very great: 14For he had possessions of flocks and herds, and many servants: and the Philistines envied him. 15For all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham, his father, the Philistines had stopped up, filling them with earth. 16And Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go from us; for you have become much mightier than we”. 17And Isaac left there, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.

18And Isaac dug opened again the wells of water, which were dug in the days of Abraham his father; that the Philistines had stopped after the death of Abraham: and he called their names the same names by which his father had called them. 19And Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water. 20And the herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours”: and he called the name of the well “Esek” (which means ‘argument’); because they argued with him. 21And they dug another well, and argued over that well also: and he called the name of it “Sitnah” (which means ‘hostility’). 22And he moved from there, and dug another well; and for that they did not argue: and he called the name of it “Rehoboth” (which means ‘open spaces’); and he said, “For now the LORD has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.”

23And he went up from there to Beer-sheba. 24And the LORD appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the God of Abraham, your father: fear not, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your descendants for My servant Abraham's sake”. 25And he built an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants dug another well.

26Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath, one of his friends, and Phichol, the commander of his army. 27And Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?” 28And they said, “We saw that certainly the LORD was with you: and we said, “Let there be now a sworn agreement between us - between us and you, and let us make a treaty with you; 29That you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done nothing to you but good, and have sent you away in peace: you are now the blessed of the LORD.” 30And Isaac made them a feast, and they did eat and drink. 31And they arose early in the morning, and swore an oath to one another; and Isaac sent them away, and they left him in peace. 32And the same day, Isaac's servants came, and told him about the well which they had dug, and said, “We have found water”. 33And he called it “Shebah”; therefore the name of the city is “Beer-sheba” until this day.

34And Esau was forty years old when he took Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite as his wives: 35w And Esau’s wives were a source of grief of mind to Isaac and to Rebekah.