The Scriptures 1998

Genesis 26:12-25 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

12. And Yitsḥaq sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year a hundredfold, and יהוה blessed him.

13. And the man grew great and went forward until he became very great.

14. And he came to have possessions of flocks and possessions of herds and a great body of servants, and the Philistines envied him.

15. And the Philistines had stopped up all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Aḇraham his father, and filled them with dirt.

16. And Aḇimeleḵ said to Yitsḥaq, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.”

17. So Yitsḥaq went from there and pitched his tent in the wadi Gerar, and dwelt there.

18. And Yitsḥaq dug again the wells of water which they had dug in the days of Aḇraham his father, for the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Aḇraham. And he called them by the names which his father had called them.

19. But when Yitsḥaq’s servants dug in the wadi and found a well of running water there,

20. the herdsmen of Gerar strove with Yitsḥaq’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” And he called the name of the well Ěseq, because they strove with him.

21. And they dug another well, and they strove over that one too, and he called its name Sitnah.

22. And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not strive over it. And he called its name Reḥoḇoth, and said, “For now יהוה has made room for us, and we shall bear fruit in the land.”

23. And from there he went up to Be’ĕrsheḇa.

24. And יהוה appeared to him the same night and said, “I am the Elohim of your father Aḇraham. Do not fear, for I am with you, and shall bless you and increase your seed for My servant Aḇraham’s sake.”

25. And he built an altar there, and called on the Name of יהוה, and he pitched his tent there, and the servants of Yitsḥaq dug a well there.