Genesis 26:14
Good News Translation
Because he had many herds of sheep and cattle and many servants, the Philistines were jealous of him.

New Revised Standard Version
He had possessions of flocks and herds, and a great household, so that the Philistines envied him.

Contemporary English Version
In fact, the Philistines were jealous of the large number of sheep, goats, and slaves that Isaac owned,

New American Bible
He acquired flocks and herds, and a great work force, and so the Philistines became envious of him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he had possessions of sheep and of herds, and a very great family. Wherefore the Palestines envying him,

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And he had possessions of sheep and of herds, and a very great family. Wherefore the Palestines envying him,

had possession.

Genesis 12:16 And they used Abram well for her sake. And he had sheep and oxen and he asses, and men servants, and maid servants, and she asses, and camels.

Genesis 13:2 And he was very rich in possession of gold and silver.

Job 1:3 And his possession was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a family exceedingly great: and this man was great among all the people of the east.

Job 42:12 And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. And he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.

Psalm 112:3 Glory and wealth shall be in his house: and his justice remaineth for ever and ever.

Psalm 144:13,14 Their storehouses full, flowing out of this into that. Their sheep fruitful in young, abounding in their goings forth: . . .

Proverbs 10:22 A fool worketh mischief as it were for sport: but wisdom is prudence to a man.

servants.

Genesis 37:11 His brethren therefore envied him: but his father considered the thing with himself.

1 Samuel 18:9 And Saul did not look on David with a good eye from that day and forward.

Job 5:2 Anger indeed killeth the foolish, and envy slayeth the little one.

Psalm 112:10 The wicked shall see, and shall be angry, he shall gnash with his teeth and pine away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.

Proverbs 27:4 Anger hath no mercy: nor fury, when it breaketh forth: and who can bear the violence of one provoked?

Ecclesiastes 4:4 Again I considered all the labours of men, and I remarked that their industries are exposed to the envy of their neighbour: so in this also there is vanity, and fruitless care.

Context
Isaac's Prosperity
13And the man was enriched, and he went on prospering and increasing, till he became exceeding great. 14And he had possessions of sheep and of herds, and a very great family. Wherefore the Palestines envying him,15Stopped up at that time all the wells, that the servants of his father, Abraham, had digged, filling them up with earth:…
Cross References
Genesis 24:35
And the Lord hath blessed my master wonderfully, and he is become great: and he hath given him sheep and oxen, silver and gold, men servants and women servants, camels and asses.

Genesis 25:5
And Abraham gave all his possessions to Isaac:

Genesis 30:43
And the man was enriched exceedingly, and he had many flocks, maid-servants and men-servants, camels and asses.

Genesis 26:13
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