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Genesis 26:16-21 New Century Version (NCV)

16. And Abimelech said to Isaac, “Leave our country because you have become much more powerful than we are.”

17. So Isaac left that place and camped in the Valley of Gerar and lived there.

18. Long before this time Abraham had dug many wells, but after he died, the Philistines filled them with dirt. So Isaac dug those wells again and gave them the same names his father had given them.

19. Isaac’s servants dug a well in the valley, from which a spring of water flowed.

20. But the herdsmen of Gerar argued with them and said, “This water is ours.” So Isaac named that well Argue because they argued with him.

21. Then his servants dug another well. When the people also argued about it, Isaac named that well Fight.

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