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Conflict Over Wells
Genesis 26:18-23
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And he digged again other wells, which the servants of his father, Abraham, had digged, and which, after his death, the Philistines had of old stopped up: and he called them by the same names, by which his father before had called them.
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And they digged in the torrent, and found living water:
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But there also the herdsmen of Gerara strove against the herdsmen of Isaac, saying: It is our water. Wherefore he called the name of the well, on occasion of that which had happened, Calumny.
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And they digged also another; and for that they quarrelled likewise, and he called the name of it, Enmity.
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Going forward from thence, he digged another well, for which they contended not; therefore he called the name thereof, Latitude, saying: Now hath the Lord given us room, and made us to increase upon the earth.
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And he went up from that place to Bersabee,
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