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Genesis - ch 26 v 21 - 35
- And they digged also another; and for that they quarreled likewise, and he called the name of it, Enmity.
- Going forward from thence, he digged another well, for which they contended not: therefore he called the name thereof, Latitude, saying: Now hath the Lord given us room, and made us to increase upon the earth.
- And he went up from that place to Bersabee,
- Where the Lord appeared to him that same might, saying: I am the God of Abraham thy father; do not fear, for I am with thee: I will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.
- And he built there an altar: and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent: and commanded his servants to dig a well.
- To which place when Abimelech, and Ochozath his friend, and Phicol chief captain of his soldiers came from Gerara,
- Isaac said to them: Why are ye come to me, a man whom you hate, and have thrust out from you?
- And they answered: We saw that the Lord is with thee, and therefore we said: Let there be an oath between us, and let us make a covenant,
- That thou do us no harm, as we on our part have touched nothing of thine, nor have done any thing to hurt thee: but with peace have sent thee away increased with the blessing of the Lord.
- And he made them a feast, and after they had eaten and drunk:
- Arising in the morning, they swore one to another: and Isaac sent them away peaceably to their own home.
- And behold the same day the servants of Isaac came, telling him of a well which they had digged, and saying: We have found water.
- Whereupon he called it Abundance: and the name of the city was called Bersabee, even to this day.
- And Esau being forty years old, married wives, Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hethite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon of the same place.
- And they both offended the mind of Isaac and Rebecca.
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