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¹⁵(Now the Philistines had stopped up and filled with earth all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.) ¹⁶And Abimelech said to Isaac, ‘Go away from us; you have become too powerful for us.’

17 So 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 Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found there a well of spring water, ²⁰the herders of Gerar quarrelled with Isaac’s herders, saying, ‘The water is ours.’ So he called the well Esek,^* because they contended with him. ²¹Then they dug another well, and they quarrelled over that one also; so he called it Sitnah.^{* 22}He 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.’