Genesis 26:15

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and all the wells which his father's servants digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines have stopped them, and fill them with dust.

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  • Gen 21:30 : 30 And he saith, `For -- the seven lambs thou dost accept from my hand, so that it becometh a witness for me that I have digged this well;'
  • Gen 21:25 : 25 And Abraham reasoned with Abimelech concerning the matter of a well of water which Abimelech's servants have taken violently away,

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  • Gen 26:16-22
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    16And Abimelech saith unto Isaac, `Go from us; for thou hast become much mightier than we;'

    17and Isaac goeth from thence, and encampeth in the valley of Gerar, and dwelleth there;

    18and Isaac turneth back, and diggeth the wells of water which they digged in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines do stop after the death of Abraham, and he calleth to them names according to the names which his father called them.

    19And Isaac's servants dig in the valley, and find there a well of living water,

    20and shepherds of Gerar strive with shepherds of Isaac, saying, `The water `is' ours;' and he calleth the name of the well `Strife,' because they have striven habitually with him;

    21and they dig another well, and they strive also for it, and he calleth its name `Hatred.'

    22And he removeth from thence, and diggeth another well, and they have not striven for it, and he calleth its name Enlargements, and saith, `For -- now hath Jehovah given enlargement to us, and we have been fruitful in the land.'

  • Gen 26:12-14
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    12And Isaac soweth in that land, and findeth in that year a hundredfold, and Jehovah blesseth him;

    13and the man is great, and goeth on, going on and becoming great, till that he hath been very great,

    14and he hath possession of a flock, and possession of a herd, and an abundant service; and the Philistines envy him,

  • Gen 26:32-33
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    32And it cometh to pass during that day that Isaac's servants come and declare to him concerning the circumstances of the well which they have digged, and say to him, `We have found water;'

    33and he calleth it Shebah, `oath,' therefore the name of the city `is' Beer-Sheba, `well of the oath,' unto this day.

  • Gen 21:25
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    25And Abraham reasoned with Abimelech concerning the matter of a well of water which Abimelech's servants have taken violently away,

  • Gen 26:1
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    1And there is a famine in the land, besides the first famine which was in the days of Abraham, and Isaac goeth unto Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

  • Gen 26:25-27
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    25and he buildeth there an altar, and preacheth in the name of Jehovah, and stretcheth out there his tent, and there Isaac's servants dig a well.

    26And Abimelech hath gone unto him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phichol head of his host;

    27and Isaac saith unto them, `Wherefore have ye come unto me, and ye have hated me, and ye send me away from you?'

  • Gen 21:30
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    30And he saith, `For -- the seven lambs thou dost accept from my hand, so that it becometh a witness for me that I have digged this well;'

  • Gen 29:2-3
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    2and he looketh, and lo, a well in the field, and lo, there three droves of a flock crouching by it, for from that well they water the droves, and the great stone `is' on the mouth of the well.

    3(When thither have all the droves been gathered, and they have rolled the stone from off the mouth of the well, and have watered the flock, then they have turned back the stone on the mouth of the well to its place.)

  • Gen 21:32
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    32And they make a covenant in Beer-Sheba, and Abimelech riseth -- Phichol also, head of his host -- and they turn back unto the land of the Philistines;

  • Gen 26:6
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    6And Isaac dwelleth in Gerar;

  • Gen 25:5
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    5And Abraham giveth all that he hath to Isaac;

  • Gen 21:34
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    34and Abraham sojourneth in the land of the Philistines many days.

  • Gen 25:11
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    11And it cometh to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blesseth Isaac his son; and Isaac dwelleth by the Well of the Living One, my Beholder.

  • Gen 20:15
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    15and Abimelech saith, `Lo, my land `is' before thee, where it is good in thine eyes, dwell;'

  • Gen 20:18
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    18for Jehovah restraining had restrained every womb of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

  • Gen 26:8
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    8And it cometh to pass, when the days have been prolonged to him there, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looketh through the window, and seeth, and lo, Isaac is playing with Rebekah his wife.

  • 2 Chr 32:4
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    4and much people are gathered, and they stop all the fountains and the brook that is rushing into the midst of the land, saying, `Why do the kings of Asshur come, and have found much water?'

  • Gen 21:22
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    22And it cometh to pass at that time that Abimelech speaketh -- Phichol also, head of his host -- unto Abraham, saying, `God `is' with thee in all that thou art doing;

  • Gen 29:8
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    8And they say, `We are not able, till that all the droves be gathered together, and they have rolled away the stone from the mouth of the well, and we have watered the flock.'