Catholic Public Domain Version
"so, at that time, they obstructed all the wells that the servants of his father Abraham had dug, filling them with soil. "
— Genesis 26:15, Catholic Public Domain Version
“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.”
“Now all the wells which his father’s servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth. ”
“Now all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.”
“So the Philistines took dirt and filled up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug back in the days of his father Abraham.”
“Stopped up at that time all the wells, that the servants of his father, Abraham, had digged, filling them up with earth:”
“Now all the water-holes, which his father's servants had made in the days of Abraham, had been stopped up with earth by the Philistines.”
“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.”
Then Isaac sowed in that land, and he found, in that same year, one hundredfold. And the Lord blessed him.
And the man was enriched, and he continued prospering as well as increasing, until he became very great.
Likewise, he had possessions of sheep and of herds, and a very large family. Because of this, the Palestinians envied him,
so, at that time, they obstructed all the wells that the servants of his father Abraham had dug, filling them with soil.
It reached a point where Abimelech himself said to Isaac, “Move away from us, for you have become very much more powerful than we.”
And departing, he then went toward the torrent of Gerar, and he dwelt there.
Again, he dug up other wells, which the servants of his father Abraham had dug, and which, after his death, the Philistines had formerly obstructed. And he called them by the same names that his father had called them before.