Isaac’s Prosperity

12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.

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13 And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:

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14 For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.

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15 For all the wells which his father’s servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.

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16 And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.

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17 And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.

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18 And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.

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19 And Isaac’s servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.

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20 And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac’s herdmen, saying, The water [is] ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.

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21 And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.

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22 And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.

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23 And he went up from thence to Beersheba.

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24 And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I [am] the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I [am] with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham’s sake.

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25 And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac’s servants digged a well.

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