Genesis 26:12–22

¹²And Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. The Lord ^jblessed him, ¹³and the man became rich, and gained more and more until he became very wealthy. ¹⁴He had possessions of flocks and herds and many servants, so that the Philistines ^kenvied him. ¹⁵(Now the Philistines had stopped and filled with earth all the wells ^lthat his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father.) ¹⁶And Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.”

¹⁷So Isaac departed from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there. ¹⁸And Isaac dug again the wells of water that had been dug in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines had stopped after the death of Abraham. And ^mhe 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 herdsmen of Gerar ⁿquarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” So he called the name of the well Esek,² because they contended with him. ²¹Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that also, so he called its name Sitnah.^{3 22}And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. So he called its name Rehoboth,⁴ saying, “For now the Lord has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.”