6. So Isaac settled in Gerar.
7. When the men of the place asked concerning his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “my wife,” thinking “the men of the place will kill me on account of Rebekah, for she was beautiful.”
8. And it happened that, when he had been there a long time, Abimelech the king of the Philistines looked through the window, and saw—behold—Isaac was fondling Rebekah his wife.
9. And Abimelech called Isaac and said, “Surely she is your wife. Now why did you say ‘She is my sister’?” And Isaac said to him, “Because I thought I would die on account of her.”
10. And Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have slept with your wife! Then you would have brought guilt upon us!”
11. Then Abimelech instructed all the people, saying, “The one who touches this man or his wife shall certainly die.”
12. And Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in that same year a hundredfold, and Yahweh blessed him.
13. And the man became wealthier and wealthier until he was exceedingly wealthy.
14. And he possessed sheep and cattle and many servants, so that the Philistines envied him.
15. And the Philistines stopped up all the wells that the servants of his father had dug in the days of Abraham his father. They filled them with earth.
16. And Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you have become much too powerful for us.”
17. So Isaac departed from there and camped in the valley of Gerar, and settled there.
18. And Isaac dug again the wells of water which they had dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after the death of Abraham. And he gave to them the same names which his father had given them.
19. And when the servants of Isaac dug in the valley, they found a well of fresh water there.
20. Then the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with the herdsmen of Isaac, saying, “The water is ours.” And he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.
21. And they dug another well, and they quarreled over it also. And he called its name Sitnah.