²⁵ Then Abraham rebuked Abimelech because of a well of water which Abimelech’s servants ^(A)had seized.

¹⁵ Now the Philistines had stopped up all the wells ^(A)which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, and they had filled them with earth. ¹⁶ And Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for ^(B)you are much mightier than we.”

¹⁷ Then Isaac departed from there and ^[a]pitched his tent in the Valley of Gerar, and dwelt there. ¹⁸ And 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. ^(C)He called them by the names which his father had called them.

¹⁹ Also Isaac’s servants dug in the valley, and found a well of running water there. ²⁰ But the herdsmen of Gerar ^(D)quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” So he called the name of the well ^[b]Esek, because they quarreled with him. ²¹ Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that one also. So he called its name ^[c]Sitnah. ²² And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. So he called its name ^[d]Rehoboth, because he said, “For now the Lord has made room for us, and we shall ^(E)be fruitful in the land.”

Dealing with a Sinning Brother

¹⁵ “Moreover ^(A)if your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, ^(B)you have gained your brother.

¹⁵ So she said to him, ^(A)“Give me a blessing; since you have given me land in the South, give me also springs of water.”

And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

¹⁵ When Pharaoh heard of this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But ^(A)Moses fled from ^[a]the face of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of ^(B)Midian; and he sat down by ^(C)a well.

^16 (D)Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. ^(E)And they came and drew water, and they filled the ^(F)troughs to water their father’s flock. ¹⁷ Then the ^(G)shepherds came and ^(H)drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and ^(I)watered their flock.

⁸ But they said, “We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together, and they have rolled the stone from the well’s mouth; then we water the sheep.”