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Isaac. AL THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH, for because Abraham obeyed my voice, & kept my precepts and commandements, and obserued ″ my ceremonies and lawes. Therfore Isaac abode in Gerara. Who when he was asked by the men of that place concerning his wife, answered: She is my sister; for he was afraid to confesse that she was married to him, thinking lest paraduenture they would kil him because of her beautie. And when verie manie days were passed, & he abode there, Abimelech the king of the Palestines looking forth through a window, saw him sporting with Rebecca his wife. And calling for him, he said: It is euident that she is thy wife: why didest thou faine her to be thy sister? He answered: I feared lest I should die for her. And Abimelech said: Why hast thou deceaued vs? some man of the people might haue lyen with thy wife, and thou haddest brought vpon vs a great sinne. And he commanded al the people, saying: He that shal touch this mans wife, dying shal dye. And Isaac sowed in that land, and he found that same yeare ″ an hundred fold: and our Lord blessed him. And the man was made rich, and he went prospering and encreasing, til he was made exceeding great: and he had also possessions of sheep and of heards, and a verie great familie. For this the Palestines enuying him, stopped at that time al the wels, that the seruants of his father Abraham had digged, filling them vp with water: in so much that Abimelech himselfe said to Isaac: Depart from vs, because thou art become mightier then we a great deale. And departing, to come to the Torrent of Gerara, and to dwel there, againe he digged other wels, which the seruants of his father Abraham had digged, and which after his death, the Philistines had stopped vp of old: & he called them by the same names which his father before had called them. And they digged in the * Torrent, and found liuing water: but there also the pastors of Gerara made a brawle against the pastors of Isaac, saying: It is our water. For which cause he called the name of the wel, by occasion of that which had hapned, * Calumne. And they digged also an other; and for that they brawled likewise, and he called the name of it, Enmitie. Going foreward from thence he digged an other wel, for which they contended not: therfore he called the name therof, Latitude, saying: Now hath our Lord dilated vs, and made vs to encrease vpon the earth. And he went vp from that place vnto Bersabee, where our Lord appeared to him that same night, saying: I am the God of Abraham thy father, doe not feare, because I am with thee: I wil blesse thee, and multiplie thy seed for my seruant Abrahams sake. Therfore he builded there an altar: and hauing called vpon the name of our Lord, he pitched his tent: & commanded his seruants that they should digge a wel. To the which place when there were come from Gerara Abimelech, and Ocozath his freind, & Phicol chiefe Captaine of his souldiers, Isaac spake to them: Why are ye come to me a Rh