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Genesis - ch 26 v 21 - 35
- and they dig another well, and they strive also for it, and he calleth its name `Hatred.'
- And he removeth from thence, and diggeth another well, and they have not striven for it, and he calleth its name Enlargements, and saith, `For -- now hath Jehovah given enlargement to us, and we have been fruitful in the land.'
- And he goeth up from thence `to' Beer-Sheba,
- and Jehovah appeareth unto him during that night, and saith, `I `am' the God of Abraham thy father, fear not, for I `am' with thee, and have blessed thee, and have multiplied thy seed, because of Abraham My servant;'
- and he buildeth there an altar, and preacheth in the name of Jehovah, and stretcheth out there his tent, and there Isaac's servants dig a well.
- And Abimelech hath gone unto him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phichol head of his host;
- and Isaac saith unto them, `Wherefore have ye come unto me, and ye have hated me, and ye send me away from you?'
- And they say, `We have certainly seen that Jehovah hath been with thee, and we say, `Let there be, we pray thee, an oath between us, between us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;
- do not evil with us, as we have not touched thee, and as we have only done good with thee, and send thee away in peace; thou `art' now blessed of Jehovah.'
- And he maketh for them a banquet, and they eat and drink,
- and rise early in the morning, and swear one to another, and Isaac sendeth them away, and they go from him in peace.
- And it cometh to pass during that day that Isaac's servants come and declare to him concerning the circumstances of the well which they have digged, and say to him, `We have found water;'
- and he calleth it Shebah, `oath,' therefore the name of the city `is' Beer-Sheba, `well of the oath,' unto this day.
- And Esau is a son of forty years, and he taketh a wife, Judith, daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath, daughter of Elon the Hittite,
- and they are a bitterness of spirit to Isaac and to Rebekah.
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