Genesis 26
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Genesis 26:12-24

12Then Isaac sowed in that land and in that year reaped a hundredfold. Adonai blessed him

13and the man became great and continued to become greater until he became very great.

14He acquired livestock of sheep and livestock of cattle, and numerous servants. Then the Philistines envied him.

15All the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham the Philistines stopped up and filled with dirt.

16So Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much more powerful than us.”

17So Isaac departed from there, camped in the Valley of Gerar and dwelled there.

18Then Isaac dug again the wells of water that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham—the Philistines had stopped them up after Abraham’s death. He gave them the same names that his father had given them.

19Then Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found a well of living water there.

20But the shepherds of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s shepherds saying, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Quarrel, because they quarreled with him.

21Then he dug another well and they quarreled over it too, so he named it Accusation.

22Then he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. So he named it Wide Spaces and said, “Because now Adonai has created wide spaces for us and we will be fruitful in the land.”

23He went up from there to Beer-sheba.

24Adonai appeared to him that night and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you, and I will bless you and multiply your seed for the sake of Abraham my servant.”

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