Good News Bible Anglicised

Genesis 26:10-16 Good News Bible Anglicised (GNBDC)

10. “What have you done to us?” Abimelech said. “One of my men might easily have slept with your wife, and you would have been responsible for our guilt.”

11. Abimelech warned all the people: “Anyone who ill-treats this man or his wife will be put to death.”

12. Isaac sowed seed in that land, and that year he harvested a hundred times as much as he had sown, because the Lord blessed him.

13. He continued to prosper and became a very rich man.

14. Because he had many herds of sheep and cattle and many servants, the Philistines were jealous of him.

15. So they filled in all the wells which the servants of his father Abraham had dug while Abraham was alive.

16. Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Leave our country. You have become more powerful than we are.”