^{6 (J)} So Isaac settled in Gerar. ^{7 (J)} When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, "She is my sister," for he feared to say, "My wife," thinking, "lest the men of the place should kill me because of Rebekah," because she was attractive in appearance. ^{8 (J)} When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out of a window and saw Isaac laughing with Rebekah his wife. ^{9 (J)} So Abimelech called Isaac and said, "Behold, she is your wife. How then could you say, 'She is my sister'?" Isaac said to him, "Because I thought, 'Lest I die because of her.'" ^{10 (J)} Abimelech 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 upon us." ^{11 (J)} So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, "Whoever touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death."

^{12 (J)} And Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. The Lord blessed him, ^{13 (J)} and the man became rich, and gained more and more until he became very wealthy. ^{14 (J)} He had possessions of flocks and herds and many servants, so that the Philistines envied him. ^{15 (J)} (Now the Philistines had stopped and filled with earth all the wells that his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father.) ^{16 (J)} And Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we."

^{17 (J)} So Isaac departed from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there. ^{18 (J)} And Isaac dug again the wells of water that had been dug in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines had stopped after the death of Abraham. And he gave them the names that his father had given them. ^{19 (J)} But when Isaac's servants dug in the valley and found there a well of spring water, ^{20 (J)} the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." So he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him. ^{21 (J)} Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that also, so he called its name Sitnah. ^{22 (J)} And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. So he called its name Rehoboth, saying, "For now the Lord has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land."