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Genesis 26:15

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26:15 So the Philistines took dirt and filled up 1  all the wells that his father’s servants had dug back in the days of his father Abraham.

Genesis 26:25

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26:25 Then Isaac built an altar there and worshiped 2  the Lord. He pitched his tent there, and his servants dug a well. 3 

Genesis 26:32

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26:32 That day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. “We’ve found water,” they reported. 4 

1 tn Heb “and the Philistines stopped them up and filled them with dirt.”

2 tn Heb “called in the name of.” The expression refers to worshiping the Lord through prayer and sacrifice (see Gen 4:26; 12:8; 13:4; 21:33). See G. J. Wenham, Genesis (WBC), 1:116.

3 tn Heb “and they dug there, the servants of Isaac, a well.”

4 tn Heb “and they said to him, ‘We have found water.’” The order of the introductory clause and the direct discourse has been rearranged in the translation for stylistic reasons.



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