4. I will give you as many descendants as there are stars in the sky, and I will give your descendants all this land. They will be a blessing to every nation on earth,
5. because Abraham did everything I told him to do.
6. Isaac moved to Gerar
7. with his beautiful wife Rebekah. He was afraid that someone might kill him to get her, and so he told everyone that Rebekah was his sister.
8. After Isaac had been there a long time, King Abimelech looked out of a window and saw Isaac hugging and kissing Rebekah.
9. Abimelech called him in and said, “Rebekah must be your wife! Why did you say she is your sister?”“Because I thought someone would kill me,” Isaac answered.
10. “Don't you know what you've done?” Abimelech exclaimed. “If someone had slept with her, you would have made our whole nation guilty!”
11. Then Abimelech warned his people that anyone who even touched Isaac or Rebekah would be put to death.
12. Isaac planted grain and had a good harvest that same year. The Lord blessed him,
13. and Isaac was so successful that he became very rich.
14. In fact, the Philistines were jealous of the large number of sheep, goats, and slaves that Isaac owned,
15. and they stopped up the wells that Abraham's servants had dug before his death.
16. Finally, Abimelech said, “Isaac, I want you to leave our country. You have become too powerful to stay here.”
17. Isaac left and settled in Gerar Valley,