Genesis 26:12–22

¹²And Isaac sowed in that land and ¹reaped in the same year one hundredfold. And ^aYahweh blessed him,

¹³and the man ^abecame great and continued to grow greater until he became very great;

¹⁴and ^ahe had possessions of flocks and possessions of herds and many servants, so that the Philistines were jealous of him.

¹⁵Now ^aall the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines stopped up ¹by filling them with earth.

¹⁶Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are ^1atoo mighty for us.”

¹⁷And Isaac departed from there and camped in the valley of Gerar and ¹settled there.

The Quarrel over the Wells

¹⁸Then Isaac dug again the wells of water which ¹had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, but the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham; and he ²called them by the same names by which his father had called them.

¹⁹Then Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found there a well of ¹flowing water.

²⁰And the herdsmen of Gerar ^acontended with the herdsmen of Isaac, saying, “The water is ours!” So he named the well ¹Esek, because they quarreled with him.

²¹Then they dug another well, and they contended over it also, so he called it ¹Sitnah.

²²Then he moved away from there and dug another well, and they did not contend over it; so he named it ¹Rehoboth, and he said, “^2aAt last Yahweh has made ³room for us, and we will be ^bfruitful in the land.”