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Genesis 26:20-35 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,

27. Isaac said to them: Why are ye come to me, a man whom you hate, and have thrust out from you?

28. 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,

29. 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.

30. And he made them a feast, and after they had eaten and drunk:

31. Arising in the morning, they swore one to another: and Isaac sent them away peaceably to their own home.

32. 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.

33. Whereupon he called it Abundance: and the name of the city was called Bersabee, even to this day.

34. 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.

35. And they both offended the mind of Isaac and Rebecca.

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