Genesis 26
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Genesis 26:19-25

19But when Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found there a well of 1flowing water, 20the herdsmen of Gerar 2quarreled with the herdsmen of Isaac, saying, “The water is ours!” So he named the well 3Esek, because they contended with him. 21Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over it too, so he named it 4Sitnah. 22He moved away from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it; so he named it 5Rehoboth, for he said, “67At last the Lord has made 8room for us, and we will be 9fruitful in the land.”

23Then he went up from there to 10Beersheba. 24The Lord 11appeared to him the same night and said, “12I am the God of your father Abraham; 13Do not fear, for I am with you. I 14will bless you, and multiply your 15descendants, For the sake of My servant Abraham.” 25So he built an 16altar there and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent there; and there Isaac’s servants dug a well.

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Notes

  1. 1. Genesis 26:19 Lit living ↩
  2. 2. Genesis 26:20 Gen 21:25 ↩
  3. 3. Genesis 26:20 I.e. contention ↩
  4. 4. Genesis 26:21 I.e. enmity ↩
  5. 5. Genesis 26:22 I.e. broad places ↩
  6. 6. Genesis 26:22 Lit Truly now ↩
  7. 7. Genesis 26:22 Ps 4:1; Is 54:2, 3 ↩
  8. 8. Genesis 26:22 Or broad ↩
  9. 9. Genesis 26:22 Gen 17:6; Ex 1:7 ↩
  10. 10. Genesis 26:23 Gen 22:19 ↩
  11. 11. Genesis 26:24 Gen 26:2 ↩
  12. 12. Genesis 26:24 Gen 17:7, 8; 24:12; Ex 3:6; Acts 7:32 ↩
  13. 13. Genesis 26:24 Gen 15:1 ↩
  14. 14. Genesis 26:24 Gen 22:17; 26:3, 4 ↩
  15. 15. Genesis 26:24 Lit seed ↩
  16. 16. Genesis 26:25 Gen 12:7, 8; 13:4, 18; Ps 116:17 ↩

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