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Isaac’s Prosperity

Genesis 26:15

In 11 translations

BSB
So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.
KJV
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.
WEB
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.
ASV
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.
LSV
and all the wells which his father’s servants dug in the days of his father Abraham, the Philistines have stopped them, and fill them with dust.
YLT
and all the wells which his father's servants digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines have stopped them, and fill them with dust.
DBY
And all the wells that his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines stopped them and filled them with earth.
DRC
Stopped up at that time all the wells, that the servants of his father Abraham had digged, filling them up with earth:
GNV
In so much that the Philistims stopped and filled vp with earth all the welles, which his fathers seruantes digged in his father Abrahams time.
JPS
Now 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.
LXXE
And all the wells which the servants of his father had dug in the time of his father, the Phylistines stopped them, and filled them with earth.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וְכָל־הַבְּאֵרֹ֗ת אֲשֶׁ֤ר חָֽפְרוּ֙ עַבְדֵ֣י אָבִ֔יו בִּימֵ֖י אַבְרָהָ֣ם אָבִ֑יו סִתְּמ֣וּם פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים וַיְמַלְא֖וּם עָפָֽר׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ πάντα τὰ φρέατα, ἃ ὤρυξαν οἱ παῖδες τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ χρόνῳ τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ, ἐνέφραξαν αὐτὰ οἱ Φυλιστιεὶμ, καὶ ἔπλησαν αὐτὰ γῆς.

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  • Genesis 21:30He replied, “You are to accept the seven ewe lambs from my hand as my witness that I dug this well.”
  • Genesis 21:25But when Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized,

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