And it happened after he had been
there long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out
at a window, and saw Isaac sporting with Rebecca his wife. And
Abimelech sent for Isaac and said: see, she is of a surety thy
wife, and why saidest thou that she was thy sister? And Isaac said
unto him: I thought that I might peradventure have died for her
sake. Then said Abimelech: why hast thou done this unto us? one of
the people might lightly have lain by thy wife and so shouldest
thou have brought sin upon us. Then Abimelech charged all his
people saying: he that toucheth this man or his wife, shall surely
die for it. And Isaac sowed in the land, and found in the same
year an hundred bushels: for the LORD blessed him, and the man
waxed mighty, and went forth and grew till he was exceeding great,
that he had possession of sheep, of oxen and a mighty household:
so that the Philistines had envy at him: Insomuch that they
stopped and filled up with earth, all the wells which his father's
servants digged in his father Abraham's time. Then said Abimelech
unto Isaac: get thee from me, for thou art mightier than we a
great deal. Then Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in
the valley Gerar and dwelt there.
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