¹ There was a famine in the land, in addition to the first famine that happened during the time of Avraham (Abraham). Yitschaq (Isaac) went to Abiymelek (Abimelech), king of the Pelishtiy (Philistines), in Gerar. ² Yahuah (Yah) appeared to him and said, “Don't go down to <span class="ytc-term" data-term="Mitsrayim" title="The Hebrew name for Egypt, meaning 'two straits' or 'two boundaries.' Son of <span class="ytc-term" data-term="Cham" title="Means 'hot' or 'burnt.' The second son of Nuach (Noah). Father of Kush (Ethiopia/Africa), Mitsrayim (Egypt), Phut (Libya/North Africa), and Kena'an. Ancestor...">Cham and ancestor of the Egyptians. The land of bondage for the children of Yash...">Mitsrayim (Egypt). Live in the land I tell yourself about. ³ Stay in this land, and I'll be with yourself and bless yourself. I'll give all these lands to yourself and yourself descendants, and I'll fulfill the oath I swore to yourself father Avraham (Abraham). ⁴ I'll make yourself descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and give them all these lands. Through yourself descendants, all the nations of the earth will be blessed, ⁵ because Avraham (Abraham) listened to me and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.” ⁶ So Yitschaq (Isaac) stayed in Gerar. ⁷ When the men of that place asked about his wife, he said, “She's my sister.” He was afraid to say, “She's my wife,” thinking, “The men here might kill me to get Rivqah (Rebekah),” because she was very beautiful. ⁸ After he had been there a long time, Abiymelek (Abimelech), king of the Pelishtiy (Philistines), looked out a window and saw Yitschaq (Isaac) caressing his wife Rivqah (Rebekah). ⁹ Abiymelek (Abimelech) called for Yitschaq (Isaac) and said, “Look, she's clearly yourself wife! How could yourself say, ‘She's my sister’?” Yitschaq (Isaac) answered him, “I said it because I thought I might be killed because of her.” ¹⁰ Abiymelek (Abimelech) said, “What have yourself done to us? One of the people might easily have slept with yourself wife, and yourself would've brought guilt on us.” ¹¹ Then Abiymelek (Abimelech) warned all the people, saying, “Anyone who touches this man or his wife will certainly be put to death.” ¹² Yitschaq (Isaac) planted crops in that land and harvested a hundred times more than he sowed that same year, because Yahuah (Yah) blessed him. ¹³ The man became wealthy, and his wealth continued to grow until he was very powerful. ¹⁴ He owned many flocks, herds, and a large number of servants, and the Pelishtiy (Philistines) envied him. ¹⁵ So the Pelishtiy (Philistines) filled in with dirt all the wells that his father's servants had dug during the lifetime of his father Avraham (Abraham). ¹⁶ Abiymelek (Abimelech) said to Yitschaq (Isaac), “Move away from us, because yourself've become much more powerful than we are.” ¹⁷ So Yitschaq (Isaac) left there, set up camp in the Valley of Gerar, and lived there. ¹⁸ Yitschaq (Isaac) reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Avraham (Abraham), which the Pelishtiy (Philistines) had filled in after Avraham (Abraham) died. He gave them the same names his father had given them. ¹⁹ Yitschaq's (Isaac's) servants dug in the valley and found a well of flowing water there. ²⁰ But the shepherds of Gerar argued with Yitschaq's (Isaac's) shepherds, saying, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek (Contention), because they argued with him. ²¹ Then they dug another well and argued over that one too, so he named it Sitnah (Enmity). ²² He moved from there and dug yet another well. No one argued over this one, so he named it Rechovot (Room), saying, “Now Yahuah (Yah) has made room for us, and we'll be fruitful in the land.” ²³ From there, he went up to Be'er-Shaba (Beersheba). ²⁴ Yahuah (Yah) appeared to him that night and said, “I am the Yahuah (Yah) of yourself father Avraham (Abraham). Don't be afraid, for I'm with yourself. I'll bless yourself and increase the number of yourself descendants for the sake of my servant Avraham (Abraham).” ²⁵ Yitschaq (Isaac) built an altar there and called on the name of Yahuah (Yah). He pitched his tent there, and his servants dug a well. ²⁶ Meanwhile, Abiymelek (Abimelech) came to him from Gerar with Achuzzath (Ahuzzath), one of his advisers, and Phichol (Phicol), the commander of his army. ²⁷ Yitschaq (Isaac) asked them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me and sent me away?” ²⁸ They answered, “We saw clearly that Yahuah (Yah) was with yourself. So we thought, ‘There should be a solemn oath between us.’ Let's make a treaty with yourself ²⁹ that yourself won't harm us, just as we haven't touched yourself but have done only good to yourself and sent yourself away in peace. Yourself are now blessed by Yahuah (Yah).” ³⁰ Yitschaq (Isaac) prepared a feast for them, and they ate and drank. ³¹ Early the next morning, they exchanged oaths. Then Yitschaq (Isaac) sent them on their way, and they left him in peace.