Verse 21
Genesis 26:21
Noah Webster Bible
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And they digged another well, and contended 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 first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Is...
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And the LORD appeared to him, and said, Go not down into Egypt: dwell in the land which I shall tell...
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Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee: for to thee, and to thy seed I w...
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And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give to thy seed all these cou...
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Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
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And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:
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And the men of the place asked him of 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 a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looke...
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And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, surely she is thy wife: and how saidst thou, She is my...
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And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done to us? one of the people might lightly have lain wit...
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And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be...
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Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year a hundred-fold: and the LORD blessed hi...
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And the man became great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:
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For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and very many servants: And the Philistine...
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For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Phil...
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And Abimelech said to Isaac, Go from us: for thou art much mightier than we.
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And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
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And Isaac digged again the wells of water which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; f...
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And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
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And the herdmen of Gerar contended with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called th...
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And they digged another well, and contended for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.
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And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they did not contend: and he calle...
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And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba.
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And the LORD appeared to him the same night, and said, I am the God (Elohim) of Abraham thy father:...
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And he built an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and t...
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Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captai...
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And Isaac said to them, Why come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?
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And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath b...
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That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done to thee nothing but g...
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And he made them a feast, and they ate and drank.
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And they rose betimes in the morning, and swore one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they d...
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And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came and told him concerning the well which...
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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 for a wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and B...
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Who were a grief of mind to Isaac and Rebekah.
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