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Genesis 26:20-26 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

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,

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