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AL THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH, ⁵for because Abraham obeyed my voice, & kept my precepts and commandements, and obserued ″ my ceremonies and lawes. ⁶Therfore Isaac abode in Gerara. ⁷Who when he was asked by the men of that place concerning his wife, answered: She is ^[1] my sister; for he was afraid to confesse that she was married to him, thinking lest paraduenture they would kil him because of her beautie. ⁸And when verie manie days were passed, & he abode there, Abimelech the king of the Palestines looking forth through a window, saw him sporting with Rebecca his wife. ⁹And calling for him, he said: It is euident that she is thy wife: why didest thou faine her to be thy sister? He answered: I feared lest I should die for her. ¹⁰And Abimelech said: Why hast thou deceaued vs? some man of the people might haue lyen with thy wife, and thou haddest brought vpon vs ^[2] a great sinne. And he commanded al the people, saying: ¹¹He that shal touch this mans wife, dying shal dye. ¹²And Isaac sowed in that land, and he found that same yeare ″ an hundred fold: and our Lord blessed him. ¹³And the man was made rich, and he went prospering and encreasing, til he was made exceeding great: ¹⁴and he had also possessions of sheep and of heards, and a verie great familie. For this the Palestines enuying him, ¹⁵stopped at that time al the wels, that the seruants of his father Abraham had digged, filling them vp with water: ¹⁶in so much that Abimelech himselfe said to Isaac: Depart from vs, because thou art become mightier then we a great deale. ¹⁷And departing, to come to the Torrent of Gerara, and to dwel there, ¹⁸againe he digged other wels, which the seruants of his father Abraham had digged, and which after his death, the Philistines had stopped vp of old: & he called them by the same names which his father before had called them. ¹⁹And they digged in the * The chanel where sometimes a vehement streame runneth, sometimes none at al.* Torrent, and found liuing water: ²⁰but there also the pastors of Gerara made a brawle against the pastors of Isaac, saying: It is our water. For which cause he called the name of the wel, by occasion of that which had hapned, Wrangling* Calumne. ²¹And they digged also an other; and for that they brawled likewise, and he called the name of it, Enmitie. ²²Going foreward from thence he digged an other wel, for which they contended not: therfore he called the name therof, Latitude, saying: Now hath our Lord dilated vs, and made vs to encrease vpon the earth. ²³And he went vp from that place vnto Bersabee, ²⁴where our Lord appeared to him that same night, saying: I am the God of Abraham thy father, doe not feare, because I am with thee: I wil blesse thee, and multiplie thy seed for my seruant Abrahams sake. Therfore he builded there an altar: and hauing called vpon the name of our Lord, he pitched his tent: & commanded his seruants that they should digge a wel. ²⁶To the which place when there were come from Gerara Abimelech, and Ocozath his freind, & Phicol chiefe Captaine of his souldiers, ²⁷Isaac spake to them: Why are ye come to me a

1. See pag. 50.
2. Adulterie a great sinne also among Paynims.