16 It reached a point where Abimelech himself said to Isaac, 'Move away from us, for you have become very much more powerful than we.'
17 And departing, he then went toward the torrent of Gerar, and he dwelt there.
18 Again, he dug up other wells, which the servants of his father Abraham had dug, and which, after his death, the Philistines had formerly obstructed. And he called them by the same names that his father had called them before.
19 And they dug in the torrent, and they found living water.
20 But in that place also the shepherds of Gerar argued against the shepherds of Isaac, by saying, 'It is our water.' For this reason, he called the name of the well, because of what had happened, 'Calumny.'
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