Verse 21
Genesis 26:21
Darby Translation
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And they dug another well, and they strove for that also; and he called the name of it Sitnah.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַֽ/יַּחְפְּרוּ֙ בְּאֵ֣ר אַחֶ֔רֶת וַ/יָּרִ֖יבוּ גַּם עָלֶ֑י/הָ וַ/יִּקְרָ֥א שְׁמָ֖/הּ שִׂטְנָֽה
English Translation
And they dug another well and they quarreled over it also, and he called its name Sitnah.
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Chapter 26 Context
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And there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine which had been in the days of Abraham....
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And Jehovah appeared to him and said, Go not down to Egypt: dwell in the land that I shall tell thee...
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Sojourn in this land; and I will be with thee and bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I wi...
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And I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and unto thy seed will I give all these countri...
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because that Abraham hearkened to my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my...
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And Isaac dwelt at Gerar.
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And the men of the place asked about his wife. And he said, She is my sister; for he feared to say,...
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And it came to pass when he had been there some time, that Abimelech the king of the Philistines loo...
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Then Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, she is certainly thy wife; and how saidst thou, She i...
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And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done to us? But a little and one of the people might have...
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And Abimelech charged all the people, saying, He that touches this man or his wife shall certainly b...
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And Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year a hundredfold; and Jehovah blessed him.
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And the man became great, and he became continually greater, until he was very great.
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And he had possessions of flocks, and possessions of herds, and a great number of servants; and the...
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And all the wells that his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philisti...
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And Abimelech said to Isaac, Go from us; for thou art become much mightier than we.
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And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his camp in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
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And Isaac dug again the wells of water that they had dug in the days of Abraham his father, and that...
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And Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
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But the shepherds of Gerar strove with Isaac's shepherds, saying, The water is ours. And he called t...
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And they dug another well, and they strove for that also; and he called the name of it Sitnah.
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And he removed thence and dug another well; and they did not strive for that. And he called the name...
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And he went up thence to Beer-sheba.
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And Jehovah appeared to him the same night, and said, I am the God (Elohim) of Abraham thy father: f...
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And he built an altar there, and called upon the name of Jehovah. And he pitched his tent there; and...
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And Abimelech, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phichol the captain of his host, went to him from Gerar.
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And Isaac said to them, Why are ye come to me, seeing ye hate me, and have driven me away from you?
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And they said, We saw certainly that Jehovah is with thee; and we said, Let there be then an oath be...
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that thou wilt do us no wrong, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done to thee nothing but...
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And he made them a feast, and they ate and drank.
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And they rose early in the morning, and swore one to another; and Isaac sent them away, and they dep...
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And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well that...
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And he called it Shebah; therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba to this day.
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And Esau was forty years old, when he took as wives Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Ba...
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And they were a grief of mind to Isaac and to Rebecca.
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