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Genesis 26:16-23 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

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,

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