World English Bible
Genesis 26:27
“Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?”
Verse in context — Genesis 26
He built an altar there, and called on the name of Yahweh, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac's servants dug a well.
Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.
Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?
They 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 us make a covenant with you,
that 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.
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The book of beginnings, describing creation, humanity’s fall, God’s promises, and the patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph).
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