6. So Isaac stayed in Gerar.
7. Isaac’s wife Rebekah was very beautiful. The men of that place asked Isaac about her. Isaac said, “She is my sister.” He was afraid to tell them she was his wife. He thought they might kill him so they could have her.
8. Isaac lived there a long time. One day as Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out his window, he saw Isaac. Isaac was holding his wife Rebekah tenderly.
9. Abimelech called for Isaac and said, “This woman is your wife. Why did you say she was your sister?”Isaac said to him, “I was afraid you would kill me so you could have her.”
10. Abimelech said, “What have you done to us? One of our men might have had physical relations with your wife. Then we would have been guilty of a great sin.”
11. So Abimelech warned everyone. He said, “Anyone who touches this man or his wife will be put to death.”
12. Isaac planted seed in that land. And that year he gathered a great harvest. The Lord blessed him very much.
13. Isaac became rich. He gathered more wealth until he became a very rich man.
14. He had many slaves and many flocks and herds. The Philistines envied him.
15. So they stopped up all the wells the servants of Isaac’s father Abraham had dug. (They had dug them when Abraham was alive.) The Philistines filled those wells with dirt.
16. And Abimelech said to Isaac, “Leave our country. You have become much more powerful than we are.”
17. So Isaac left that place. He camped in the Valley of Gerar and lived there.
18. Long before this time Abraham had dug many wells. After Abraham died, the Philistines filled them with dirt. So Isaac dug those wells again. He gave them the same names his father had given them.
19. Isaac’s servants dug a well in the valley. From it a spring of water flowed.
20. But the men who herded sheep in Gerar argued with Isaac’s servants. They said, “This water is ours.” So Isaac named that well Argue because they argued with him.