14. For he had possessions of flocks and herds and a great number of servants so that the Philistines envied him.
15. For the Philistines had stopped up all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father by filling them with dirt.
16. Abimelek said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much more powerful than we are.”
17. So Isaac departed from there and pitched his tent in the Valley of Gerar and settled there.
18. Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father, for the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names his father had called them.