7. And when the men of the place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister.” For he was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” thinking, “lest the men of the place should kill me for Riḇqah, because she is good-looking.”
8. And it came to be, when he had been there a long time, that Aḇimeleḵ sovereign of the Philistines looked through a window, and he watched and saw Yitsḥaq playing with Riḇqah his wife.
9. So Aḇimeleḵ called Yitsḥaq and said, “See, truly she is your wife! So how could you say, ‘She is my sister’?” And Yitsḥaq said to him, “Because I said, ‘Lest I die on account of her.’ ”
10. And Aḇimeleḵ said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people had almost lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us.”
11. And Aḇimeleḵ commanded all his people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife shall certainly be put to death.”
12. And Yitsḥaq sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year a hundredfold, and יהוה blessed him.
13. And the man grew great and went forward until he became very great.
14. And he came to have possessions of flocks and possessions of herds and a great body of servants, and the Philistines envied him.
15. And the Philistines had stopped up all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Aḇraham his father, and filled them with dirt.
16. And Aḇimeleḵ said to Yitsḥaq, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.”
17. So Yitsḥaq went from there and pitched his tent in the wadi Gerar, and dwelt there.
18. And Yitsḥaq dug again the wells of water which they had dug in the days of Aḇraham his father, for the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Aḇraham. And he called them by the names which his father had called them.
19. But when Yitsḥaq’s servants dug in the wadi and found a well of running water there,
20. the herdsmen of Gerar strove with Yitsḥaq’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” And he called the name of the well Ěseq, because they strove with him.