15. Stopped up at that time all the wells, that the servants of his father Abraham had digged, filling them up with earth:
16. Insomuch that Abimelech himself said to Isaac: Depart from us, for thou art become much mightier than we.
17. So he departed and came to the torrent of Gerara, to dwell there:
18. And he digged again other wells, which the servants of his father Abraham had digged, and which, after his death, the Palestines had of old stopped up: and he called them by the same names by which his father before had called them.
19. And they digged in the torrent, and found living water.
20. But there also the herdsmen of Gerara strove against the herdsmen of Isaac, saying: It is our water. Wherefore he called the name of the well, on occasion of that which had happened, Calumny.
21. And they digged also another; and for that they quarreled likewise, and he called the name of it, Enmity.
22. 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.
23. And he went up from that place to Bersabee,
24. 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.
25. 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.
26. To which place when Abimelech, and Ochozath his friend, and Phicol chief captain of his soldiers came from Gerara,
27. Isaac said to them: Why are ye come to me, a man whom you hate, and have thrust out from you?