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2 The LORD appeared to him, and said, "Don't go down into Mitzrayim. Dwell in the land which I will tell you of.
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The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land where I tell you to live.
3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Avraham your father.
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Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham.
4 I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the eretz be blessed,
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I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed,
5 because Avraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my mitzvot, my statutes, and my laws."
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because Abraham obeyed me and did everything I required of him, keeping my commands, my decrees and my instructions.”
6 Yitzchak lived in Gerar.
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So Isaac stayed in Gerar.
7 The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "My wife," lest, he thought, the men of the place might kill me for Rivka, because she was beautiful to look on.
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When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” because he was afraid to say, “She is my wife.” He thought, “The men of this place might kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is beautiful.”
8 It happened, when he had been there a long time, that Avimelekh king of the Pelishtim looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Yitzchak was caressing Rivka, his wife.
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When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelek king of the Philistines looked down from a window and saw Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.
9 Avimelekh called Yitzchak, and said, "Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, 'She is my sister?'" Yitzchak said to him, "Because I said, 'Lest I die because of her.'"
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So Abimelek summoned Isaac and said, “She is really your wife! Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac answered him, “Because I thought I might lose my life on account of her.”
10 Avimelekh said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!"
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Then Abimelek said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the men might well have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”
11 Avimelekh charged all the people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."
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So Abimelek gave orders to all the people: “Anyone who harms this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.”
12 Yitzchak sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. The LORD blessed him.
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Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a hundredfold, because the LORD blessed him.
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