Then Abimelek said to Isaac: move away from us; you have become too powerful for us. The request to leave is the formal expulsion of the covenant person from the place of his blessing. The same dynamic will characterize Israel's relationship with Pharaoh in Exodus: the blessing that initially produces welcome eventually produces expulsion when it becomes threatening. The application: the covenant person's increasing power in a place not their own eventually generates the pressure to leave. This is not failure — it is the beginning of the movement toward a place of their own.

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