Genesis 26:16

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

Genesis 26:16

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Berean Standard Bible

Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Depart from us, for you are much too powerful for us.”

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KJV

King James Version

And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.

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WEB

World English Bible

Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.”

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ASV

American Standard Version

And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.

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Genesis 26

¹⁴ He owned so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him.

¹⁵ So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.

¹⁶ Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Depart from us, for you are much too powerful for us.”

¹⁷ So Isaac left that place and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there.

¹⁸ Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. And he gave these wells the same names his father had given them.

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