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Genesis 26:16
New English Translation

16 Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Leave us and go elsewhere,[a] for you have become much more powerful[b] than we are.”

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  1. Genesis 26:16 tn Heb “Go away from us.”
  2. Genesis 26:16 sn You have become much more powerful. This explanation for the expulsion of Isaac from Philistine territory foreshadows the words used later by the Egyptians to justify their oppression of Israel (see Exod 1:9).
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