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And in those days, after the death of Avraham, in that year Yahuah brought a heavy famine in the land, and while the famine was raging in the land of Kena’an, Yitschaq rose up to go down to Mitsrayim on account of the famine, as his father Avraham had done.
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And Yahuah appeared that night to Yitschaq and he said to him, Do not go down to Mitsrayim but rise and go to Gerar, to Avimelekh king of the Pelishtiym, and remain there till the famine shall cease.
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And Yitschaq rose up and went to Gerar, as Yahuah commanded him, and he remained there a full year.
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And when Yitschaq came to Gerar, the people of the land saw that Rivqah his wife was of a beautiful appearance, and the people of Gerar asked Yitschaq concerning his wife, and he said, She is my sister, for he was afraid to say she was his wife lest the people of the land should slay him on account of her.
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And the princes of Avimelekh went and praised the woman to the king, but he answered them not, neither did he attend to their words.
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But he heard them say that Yitschaq declared her to be his sister, so the king reserved this within himself.
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And when Yitschaq had remained three months in the land, Avimelekh looked out at the window, and he saw, and behold Yitschaq was sporting with Rivqah his wife, for Yitschaq lived in the outer house belonging to the king, so that the house of Yitschaq was opposite the house of the king.
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And the king said to Yitschaq, What is this you have done to us in saying of your wife, She is my sister? how easily might one of the great men of the people have lain with her, and you would then have brought guilt upon us.
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And Yitschaq said to Avimelekh, Because I was afraid lest I die on account of my wife, therefore I said, She is my sister.
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At that time Avimelekh gave orders to all his princes and great men, and they took Yitschaq and Rivqah his wife and brought them before the king.
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And the king commanded that they should dress them in princely garments, and make them ride through the streets of the city, and proclaim before them throughout the land, saying, This is the man and this is his wife; whoever touches this man or his wife shall surely die. And Yitschaq returned with his wife to the king's house, and Yahuah was with Yitschaq and he continued to wax great and lacked nothing.
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And Yahuah caused Yitschaq to find favor in the sight of Avimelekh, and in the sight of all his subjects, and Avimelekh acted well with Yitschaq, for Avimelekh remembered the oath and the covenant that existed between his father and Avraham.
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And Avimelekh said to Yitschaq, Behold the whole earth is before you; dwell wherever it may seem good in your sight until you shall return to your land; and Avimelekh gave Yitschaq fields and vineyards and the best part of the land of Gerar, to sow and reap and eat the fruits of the ground until the days of the famine should have passed by.
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And Yitschaq sowed in that land, and received a hundred-fold in the same year, and Yahuah blessed him.
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And the man grew great, and he had possession of flocks and possession of herds and great store of servants.
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And when the days of the famine had passed away Yahuah appeared to Yitschaq and said to him, Rise up, go forth from this place and return to your land, to the land of Kena’an; and Yitschaq rose up and returned to Chevron which is in the land of Kena’an, he and all belonging to him as Yahuah commanded him.
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And after this Shelach the son at Arpakhshad died in that year, which is the eighteenth year of the lives of Ya’aqov and Esav; and all the days that Shelach lived were four hundred and thirty-three years and he died.
18
At that time Yitschaq sent his younger son Ya’aqov to the house of Shem and Eber, and he learned the instructions of Yahuah, and Ya’aqov remained in the house of Shem and Eber for thirty-two years, and Esav his brother did not go, for he was not willing to go, and he remained in his father's house in the land of Kena’an.
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And Esav was continually hunting in the fields to bring home what he could get, so did Esav all the days.
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And Esav was a designing and deceitful man, one who hunted after the hearts of men and inveigled them, and Esav was a valiant man in the field, and in the course of time went as usual to hunt; and he came as far as the field of Seir, the same is Edom.
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And he remained in the land of Seir hunting in the field a year and four months.
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And Esav there saw in the land of Seir the daughter of a man of Kena’an, and her name was Yehudiyt, the daughter of Beeri, son of Epher, from the families of Heth the son of Kena’an.
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And Esav took her for a wife, and he came to her; forty years old was Esav when he took her, and he brought her to Chevron, the land of his father's dwelling place, and he lived there.
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And it came to pass in those days, in the hundred and tenth year of the life of Yitschaq, that is in the fiftieth year of the life of Ya’aqov, in that year died Shem the son of Noach; Shem was six hundred years old at his death.
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And when Shem died Ya’aqov returned to his father to Chevron which is in the land of Kena’an.
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And in the fifty-sixth year of the life of Ya’aqov, people came from Charan, and Rivqah was told concerning her brother Lavan the son of Bethuel.
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For the wife of Lavan was barren in those days, and bore no children, and also all his handmaids bore none to him.
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And Yahuah afterward remembered Adinah the wife of Lavan, and she conceived and bore twin daughters, and Lavan called the names of his daughters, the name of the elder Le’ah, and the name of the younger Rachel.
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And those people came and told these things to Rivqah, and Rivqah rejoiced greatly that Yahuah had visited her brother and that he had got children.