¹Then a famine came in the land, besides the first famine which was in the days of Abraham, and Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines in Gerar. ²And the Lord appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt. Dwell in the land which I tell you. ³Stay in this land, and I will be with you, and I will bless you, for I will give you and your seed all these lands, and I will establish my oath which I swore to Abraham your father. ⁴And I will make your seed numerous like the stars of the sky, and I will give your seed all these lands, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through your seed, ⁵because Abraham obeyed me and kept my ordinance, my commandments, my statutes and my laws.” ⁶So Isaac stayed in Gerar. ⁷Then the men of the place asked him about his wife, and he said, “She is my sister”, for he was afraid to say, “my wife”, in case, he thought, “the men of the place kill me for Rebekah, for she is good-looking.” ⁸Then it came to pass that a long time went by for him there, and Abimelech king of the Philistines peered out of a window and looked out, and what he saw was Isaac playing with Rebekah his wife. ⁹And Abimelech called for Isaac and said, “Surely it is the case that she is your wife. So how come you said, ‘She is my sister’?” And Isaac said to him, “Because I said to myself, ‘In case I die because of her.’ ” ¹⁰Then Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people nearly lay with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us.” ¹¹Then Abimelech gave commandment to all the people and said, “Anyone who touches this man or his wife will certainly be put to death.” ¹²Then Isaac sowed in that land and obtained in that year a hundredfold return, and the Lord blessed him. ¹³And the man became great, and he kept becoming greater, until he had become very great. ¹⁴And he had sheep in his possession, and cattle in his possession, and a large body of servants. And the Philistines envied him, ¹⁵and the Philistines blocked up all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, and they filled them with soil. ¹⁶Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Depart from us, for you have become much stronger than us.” ¹⁷So Isaac departed from there and encamped at the watercourse of Gerar and stayed there. ¹⁸Then Isaac again dug the wells of water which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father and which the Philistines had blocked up after the death of Abraham, to which he gave names, after the names which his father had given them. ¹⁹So Isaac's servants dug in the dry watercourse and found there a well of running water. ²⁰But the shepherds of Gerar quarrelled with Isaac's shepherds and said, “The water is ours”, and they called the well Esek, because they strove with him. ²¹And they dug another well, and they quarrelled over that one too, and they called it Sitnah. ²²Then he moved from there and dug another well, which they did not quarrel over, and he called it Rehoboth and said, “For now the Lord has given us room, and we shall be fruitful in the land.” ²³Then he went up from there to Beersheba. ²⁴And the Lord appeared to him that night, and he said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Do not be afraid, for I am with you, and I will bless you and I will increase your seed because of Abraham my servant.” ²⁵Then he built an altar there and called on the name of the Lord, and he pitched his tent there, and Isaac's servants dug a well there. ²⁶Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his friend, and Phichol the commander of his army. ²⁷And Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, seeing you detest me, and you sent me away from you?” ²⁸To which they said, “We have clearly seen that the Lord was with you, and we said, ‘Let there be now an oath between us – between us and you – and let us make a covenant with you, ²⁹that you absolutely won't do us any harm, as when we did you no injury, and that you will act as when we only did you good and when we sent you off in peace’, and now you are blessed by the Lord.” ³⁰Then he held a banquet for them, and they ate and drank. ³¹And they got up early in the morning, and they swore to each other, and Isaac sent them off, and they departed from him in peace. ³²Then it came to pass on that day that Isaac's servants came and told him about the well which they had dug, and they said to him, “We have found water.” ³³And he called it Shibah, which is why the name of the town is Beersheba up to this day. ³⁴Now Esau was forty years old when he took as a wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bosmath the daughter of Elon the Hittite. ³⁵But they became a source of grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

Reference(s) in Chapter 26: v.4 ↔ Acts 3:25, Hebrews 11:12.