¹²Isaac sowed seed in that land, and that year he harvested a hundred times as much as he had sown, because the Lord blessed him. ¹³He continued to prosper and became a very rich man. ¹⁴Because he had many herds of sheep and cattle and many servants, the Philistines were jealous of him. ¹⁵So they filled in all the wells which the servants of his father Abraham had dug while Abraham was alive.

¹⁶Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Leave our country. You have become more powerful than we are.” ¹⁷So Isaac left and set up his camp in the Valley of Gerar, where he stayed for some time. ¹⁸He dug once again the wells which had been dug during the time of Abraham and which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham’s death. Isaac gave the wells the same names that his father had given them.

¹⁹Isaac’s servants dug a well in the valley and found water. ²⁰The shepherds of Gerar quarrelled with Isaac’s shepherds and said, “This water belongs to us.” So Isaac named the well “Quarrel”.

²¹Isaac’s servants dug another well, and there was a quarrel about that one also, so he named it “Enmity”. ²²He moved away from there and dug another well. There was no dispute about this one, so he named it “Freedom”. He said, “Now the Lord has given us freedom to live in the land, and we will be prosperous here.”

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