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Now Isaac sowed in that land and ^(F1)reaped in the same year a hundred times as much. And ^(C1)the LORD blessed him,

and the man ^(C1)became rich, and continued to grow ^(F1)richer until he became very ^(F1)wealthy;

for ^(C1)he had possessions of flocks ^(F1)and herds, and a great household, so that the Philistines envied him.

Now ^(C1)all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham, the Philistines stopped up ^(F1)by filling them with dirt.

Then Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go away from us, for you are ^(F1)(C1)too powerful for us."

So Isaac departed from there and camped in the Valley of Gerar, and ^(F1)settled there.

Then Isaac dug again the wells of water which ^(F1)had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, for the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham; and he ^(F2)gave them the same names which his father had ^(F3)given them.

But when Isaac's servants dug in the valley and found there a well of ^(F1)flowing water,

the herdsmen of Gerar ^(C1)quarreled with the herdsmen of Isaac, saying, "The water is ours!" So he named the well ^(F1)Esek, because they argued with him.

Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over it too, so he named it ^(F1)Sitnah.

Then he moved away from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it; so he named it ^(F1)Rehoboth, for he said, "^(F2)(C1)At last the LORD has made ^(F3)room for us, and we will be ^(C2)fruitful in the land."

And he went up from there to ^(C1)Beersheba.

And the LORD ^(C1)appeared to him the same night and said, "^(C2)I am the God of your father Abraham; ^(C3)Do not fear, for I am with you. I ^(C4)will bless you and multiply your ^(F1)descendants, For the sake of My servant Abraham."

So he built an ^(C1)altar there and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there; and there Isaac's servants dug a well.