11 So Abimelech charged all his people, saying, “He who
touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.”
12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same
year a hundredfold; and the Lord blessed him.
13 The man began to prosper, and continued
prospering until he became very prosperous;
14 For he had possessions of flocks and possessions of herds
and great number of servants. So the
Philistines envied him.
15 Now the Philistines had stopped up all the wells which
his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, and they had
filled them with earth.
16 And Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you
are much mightier than we.”
17 Then Isaac departed from there and pitched his tent in
the Valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
18 And Isaac dug again the wells of water which they had dug
in the days of Abraham his father, for the Philistines had stopped them up
after the death of Abraham. He called
them by the names which his father had called them.
19 Also Isaac’s servants dug in the valley, and found a well
of running water there.
20 But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s
herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.”
So he called the name of the well Esek, because they quarreled with him.
21 Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that
one also. So he called its name Sitnah.
22 And he moved from there and dug another well, and they
did not quarrel over it. So he called
its name Rehoboth, because he said, “For now the Lord has made room for us, and
we shall be fruitful in the land.”
23 Then he went up from there to Beersheba.
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