17So Isaac departed from there and camped in the valley of Gerar and settled there. 18Isaac dug again the wells of water that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham; for the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham; and he gave them the names that his father had given them. 19But when Isaacs servants dug in the valley and found there a well of spring water, 20the herders of Gerar quarreled with Isaacs herders, saying, The water is ours. So he called the well Esek, because they contended with him. 21Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that one also; so he called it Sitnah. 22He moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it; so he called it Rehoboth, saying, Now the Lord has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.
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