¹⁷ But some shepherds came and drove them away. Moses got up and came to their defense and watered their flock.^(A)

¹⁰ Now when Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his mother’s brother Laban, and the sheep of his mother’s brother Laban, Jacob went up and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth and watered the flock of his mother’s brother Laban.^(A)

²⁵ When Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well of water that Abimelech’s servants had seized,^(A)

¹² He looked this way and that, and seeing no one he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

¹⁵ (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.)^{(A) 16} And Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us; you have become too powerful for us.”

¹⁷ So Isaac departed from there and camped in the Wadi Gerar and settled there. ¹⁸ Isaac dug again the wells of water that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, for the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham, and he gave them the names that his father had given them.^{(B) 19} But when Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found there a well of spring water, ²⁰ the herders of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herders, saying, “The water is ours.” So he called the well Esek,^[a] because they contended with him. ²¹ Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that one also, so he called it Sitnah.^{[b] 22} He moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it, so he called it Rehoboth,^[c] saying, “Now the Lord has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.”^(C)