◄ Genesis 26:15 ►
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Good News Translation
So they filled in all the wells which the servants of his father Abraham had dug while Abraham was alive.

New Revised Standard Version
(Now the Philistines had stopped up and filled with earth all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.)

Contemporary English Version
and they stopped up the wells that Abraham's servants had dug before his death.

New American Bible
The Philistines had stopped up and filled with dirt all the wells that his father’s servants had dug back in the days of his father Abraham.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Stopped up at that time all the wells, that the servants of his father, Abraham, had digged, filling them up with earth:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Stopped up at that time all the wells, that the servants of his father, Abraham, had digged, filling them up with earth:

his father's.

Genesis 21:30 But he said: Thou shalt take seven ewelambs at my hand: that they may be a testimony for me, that I dug this well.

had stopped.

Context
Isaac's Prosperity
…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:16Insomuch that Abimelech himself said to Isaac: Depart from us, for thou art become much mightier than we.…
Cross References
Genesis 21:25
And he reproved Abimelech for a well of water, which his servants had taken away by force.

Genesis 21:30
But he said: Thou shalt take seven ewelambs at my hand: that they may be a testimony for me, that I dug this well.

Genesis 26:14
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