6. And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:
7. And the men of the place asked him about his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.
8. And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah his wife.
9. And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a truth she is your wife: and how said you, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.
10. And Abimelech said, What is this you have done unto us? one of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guiltiness upon us.
11. And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
12. Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year a hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
13. And the man became great, and advanced, and grew until he became very great:
14. For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and a great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
15. For all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.
16. And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for you are much mightier than we.
17. And Isaac departed from there, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
18. And Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
19. And Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
20. And the herdsmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.
21. And they dug another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.
22. And he removed from there, and dug another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.