1 There was another famine in the land besides the earlier one during the time of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar.
2 The Lord had appeared to Isaac and had said, “Do not go to Egypt; stay in this land, where I tell you to stay.
3 Live here, and I will be with you and bless you. I am going to give all this territory to you and to your descendants. I will keep the promise I made to your father Abraham.
4 I will give you as many descendants as there are stars in the sky, and I will give them all this territory. All the nations will ask me to bless them as I have blessed your descendants.
5 I will bless you, because Abraham obeyed me and kept all my laws and commands.”