NET Bible
"So Isaac left there and settled in the Gerar Valley."
— Genesis 26:17, NET Bible
“And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.”
“And Isaac departed thence, and encamped in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there. ”
“Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.”
“So he departed, and came to the torrent of Gerara, to dwell there:”
“So Isaac went away from there, and put up his tents in the valley of Gerar, making his living-place there.”
“And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.”
He had so many sheep and cattle and such a great household of servants that the Philistines became jealous of him.
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.
Then Abimelech said to Isaac,“Leave us and go elsewhere, for you have become much more powerful than we are.”
So Isaac left there and settled in the Gerar Valley.
Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug back in the days of his father Abraham, for the Philistines had stopped them up after Abraham died. Isaac gave these wells the same names his father had given them.
When Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well with fresh flowing water there,
the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying,“The water belongs to us!” So Isaac named the well Esek because they argued with him about it.