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He groweth rich.

And Abimelech called Iaac, and aid, Behold, of a urety he is thy wife: and how aidt thou, She is my iter? And Iaac aid unto him, Becaue I aid, Let I die for her.

And Abimelech aid, What is this thou hat done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou houldet have brought guiltines upon us.

And Abimelech charged all his people, aying, He that toucheth this man or his wife hall urely be put to death.

¶ Then Iaac owed in that land, and † received in the ame year an hundredfold: and the bleed him.

And the man waxed great, and † went forward, and grew until he became very great:

For he had poeion of flocks, and poeion of herds, and great tore ‖ of ervants: and the Philitines envied him.

For all the wells which his father's ervants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philitines had topped them, and filled them with earth.

And Abimelech aid unto Iaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.

And Iaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.

¶ And Iaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philitines had topped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.

And Iaac's ervants digged in the valley, and found there a well of † pringing water.

And the herdmen of Gerar did trive with Iaac's herdmen, aying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well ‖ Eek; becaue they trove with him.

And they digged another well, and trove for that alo: and he called the name of it ‖ Sitnah.

And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they trove not: and he called the name of it ‖ Rehoboth; and he aid, For now the hath made room for us, and we hall be fruitful in the land.

¶ And he went up from thence to Beer-heba.

And the appeared unto him the ame night, and aid, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bles thee, and multiply thy eed for my ervant Abraham's ake.

And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the, and pitched his tent there: and there Iaac's ervants digged a well.

¶ Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.

And Iaac aid unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, eeing ye hate me, and have ent me away from you?

And they aid, † We aw certainly that the was with thee: and we aid, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;

† That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have ent thee away in peace: thou art now the bleed of the.

And he made them a feat, and they did eat and drink.

And they roe up betimes in the morning, and ware one to another: and Iaac ent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

And it came to pas the ame day, that Iaac's ervants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and aid unto him, We have found water.

And he called it ‖ Shebah: therefore the name of the city is ‖ Beer-heba unto this day.

¶ And Eau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bahemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:

Which were † a grief of mind unto Iaac and to Rebekah.

1 Iaac endeth Eau for venion. 6 Rebekah intructeth Jacob to obtain the bleing. 18 Jacob under the peron of Eau obtaineth it. 30 Eau bringeth venion; Iaac is alarmed, but confirmeth the bleing to Jacob. 34 Eau complaineth, and by importunity obtaineth a bleing. 41 He threateneth Jacob's life, 42 whom Rebekah endeth away.

it came to pas, that when Iaac was old, and his eyes were dim, o that he could not ee, he called Eau his eldet on, and aid unto him, My on: and he aid unto him, Behold, here am I.

And he aid, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death:

Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and † take me ome venion;

And make me avoury meat, uch as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my oul may bles thee before I die.