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Genesis 26:27

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Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?”

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Genesis 26:27 in other translations

And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore are ye come unto me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?

Genesis 26:27 · American Standard Version

Genesis 26:27 in context

  1. 25He built an altar there, and called on Yahweh’s name, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac’s servants dug a well.
  2. 26Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.
  3. 27Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?”
  4. 28They said, “We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. We said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let’s make a covenant with you,
  5. 29that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.’ You are now the blessed of Yahweh.”