--- title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition) description: Genesis from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition. authors: - Smith, Joseph, Jr. collections: - joseph-smith tags: - translation published: "1867" publisher: RLDS Publication Board publisher_place: Plano, Illinois publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867." edition: First edition (Plano, 1867) language: en type: book chapter: 26 verse_count: 35 reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Genesis, chap. 26, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft." source: url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md." rights: status: public-domain basis: 1867 US publication source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft publication_year: 1867 --- # Genesis 26 *Isaac goeth to Gerar God blesseth him He denieth his wife Esau marrietk.* **1** And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar. **2** And the Lord appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall toll thee of. **3** Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father; **4** And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; **5** Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws. **6** And Isaac dwelt in Gerar. **7** And the men of the place asked him concerning his wife; and he said, She is my sister; for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, the men of the place should kill him for to get Rebekah because she was fair to look upon. **8** And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife. **9** And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety Rebekah is thy wife; and how saidst thou she is thy sister? And Isaac said unto him, I said it because I feared lest I die for her. **10** And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lain with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us. **11** And Abimelech charged all his people, saying. He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death. **12** Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year a hundred-fold and the Lord blessed him. **13** And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great; **14** For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants; and the Philistines envied him. **15** For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth. **16** And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we. **17** And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there. **18** And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham; and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them. **19** And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water. **20** And the herdman of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen saying, The water is ours; and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him. **21** And they digged another well, and strove for that also; and he called the name of it Sitnah. **22** Rehoboth; and he said, For now the Lord hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land. **23** And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba. **24** And the Lord appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father; fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake. **25** And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent there; and there Isaac's servants digged a well. **26** Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army. **27** And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you? **28** And they said, We saw certainly that the Lord was with thee; and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee; **29** That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace; thou art now the blessed of the Lord. **30** And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink. **31** And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another; and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace. **32** And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water. **33** And he called it Sheba; therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day. **34** And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite; **35** Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.