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He answered: I feared lest I should die for her sake.", "citation": "Genesis 26:9 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 10, "text": "And Abimelech said: Why hast thou deceived us? Some man of the people might have lain with thy wife, and thou hadst brought upon us a great sin. And he commanded all the people, saying:", "citation": "Genesis 26:10 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 11, "text": "He that shall touch this man's wife, shall surely be put to death.", "citation": "Genesis 26:11 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 12, "text": "And Isaac sowed in that land, and he found that same year a hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him.", "citation": "Genesis 26:12 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 13, "text": "And the man was enriched, and he went on prospering and increasing, till he became exceeding great.", "citation": "Genesis 26:13 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 14, "text": "And he had possessions of sheep and of herds, and a very great family. Wherefore the Palestines envying him,", "citation": "Genesis 26:14 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 15, "text": "Stopped up at that time all the wells, that the servants of his father, Abraham, had digged, filling them up with earth:", "citation": "Genesis 26:15 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 16, "text": "Insomuch that Abimelech himself said to Isaac: Depart from us, for thou art become much mightier than we.", "citation": "Genesis 26:16 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 17, "text": "So he departed, and came to the torrent of Gerara, to dwell there:", "citation": "Genesis 26:17 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 18, "text": "And he digged again other wells, which the servants of his father, Abraham, had digged, and which, after his death, the Philistines had of old stopped up: and he called them by the same names, by which his father before had called them.", "citation": "Genesis 26:18 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 19, "text": "And they digged in the torrent, and found living water:", "citation": "Genesis 26:19 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 20, "text": "But there also the herdsmen of Gerara strove against the herdsmen of Isaac, saying: It is our water. Wherefore he called the name of the well, on occasion of that which had happened, Calumny.", "citation": "Genesis 26:20 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 21, "text": "And they digged also another; and for that they quarrelled likewise, and he called the name of it, Enmity.", "citation": "Genesis 26:21 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 22, "text": "Going forward from thence, he digged another well, for which they contended not; therefore he called the name thereof, Latitude, saying: Now hath the Lord given us room, and made us to increase upon the earth.", "citation": "Genesis 26:22 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 23, "text": "And he went up from that place to Bersabee,", "citation": "Genesis 26:23 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 24, "text": "Where the Lord appeared to him that same night, saying: I am the God of Abraham thy father, do not fear, for I am with thee: I will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.", "citation": "Genesis 26:24 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 25, "text": "And he built there an altar: and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent; and commanded his servants to dig a well.", "citation": "Genesis 26:25 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 26, "text": "To which place when Abimelech, and Ochozath his friend, and Phicol chief captain of his soldiers, came from Gerara,", "citation": "Genesis 26:26 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 27, "text": "Isaac said to them: Why are ye come to me, a man whom you hate, and have thrust out from you?", "citation": "Genesis 26:27 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 28, "text": "And they answered: We saw that the Lord is with thee, and therefore we said: Let there be an oath between us, and let us make a covenant,", "citation": "Genesis 26:28 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 29, "text": "That thou do us no harm, as we on our part have touched nothing of thine, nor have done any thing to hurt thee; but with peace have sent thee away, increased with the blessing of the Lord.", "citation": "Genesis 26:29 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 30, "text": "And he made them a feast, and after they had eaten and drunk:", "citation": "Genesis 26:30 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 31, "text": "Arising in the morning, they swore one to another: and Isaac sent them away peaceably to their own home.", "citation": "Genesis 26:31 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 32, "text": "And behold, the same day the servants of Isaac came, telling him of a well which they had digged, and saying: We have found water.", "citation": "Genesis 26:32 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 33, "text": "Whereupon he called it Abundance: and the name of the city was called Bersabee, even to this day.", "citation": "Genesis 26:33 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 34, "text": "And Esau being forty years old, married wives, Judith, the daughter of Beeri, the Hethite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon, of the same place.", "citation": "Genesis 26:34 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 35, "text": "And they both offended the mind of Isaac and Rebecca.", "citation": "Genesis 26:35 (Douay-Rheims)" } ] }