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Isaac and God’s Covenant Reaffirmed
Genesis 26:1-6
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And when a famine came in the land, after that barrenness which had happened in the days of Abraham, Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Palestines, to Gerara.
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And the Lord appeared to him, and said: Go not down into Egypt, but stay in the land that I shall tell thee.
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And sojourn in it, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee: for to thee and to thy seed I will give all these countries, to fulfil the oath which I swore to Abraham thy father.
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And I will multiply thy seed like the stars of heaven: and I will give to thy posterity all these countries: and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.
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Because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my precepts and commandments, and observed my ceremonies and laws.
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So Isaac abode in Gerara.
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