1. Then, when a famine arose over the land, after that barrenness which had happened in the days of Abraham, Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Palestinians, in Gerar.
2. And the Lord appeared to him, and he said: "Do not descend into Egypt, but rest in the land that I will tell you,
3. and sojourn in it, and I will be with you, and I will bless you. For to you and to your offspring I will give all these regions, completing the oath that I promised to Abraham your father.
4. And I will multiply your offspring like the stars of heaven. And I will give to your posterity all these regions. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed,
5. because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my precepts and commandments, and observed the ceremonies and the laws."
6. And so Isaac remained in Gerar.