Holy Scripture

Genesis 26:19

A church father on this verse
“For who is able worthily to explain either the mysteries of such great wells or of those things that are related to have been done for the wells, unless we invoke the Father of the living Word and he should deign to put the word in our mouth so that we may be able to draw a little "living water" for you who thirst fro…”
Origen of Alexandria, 3th c. — HOMILIES ON GENESIS 13.1-2

Source: Septuagint

Original

19And the servants of Isaac dug in the Valley of Gerar, and they found there a well of living water.

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17And Isaac departed thence, and rested in the Valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.

18And Isaac dug again the wells of water, which the servants of his father Abraham had dug, and the Philistines had stopped them, after the death of his father Abraham; and he gave them names, according to the names by which his father named them.

— Genesis 26:19 —

20And the shepherds of Gerar strove with the shepherds of Isaac, saying that the water was theirs; and they called the name of the well, Injury, for they injured him.

21And having departed thence he dug another well, and they strove also for that; and he named the name of it, Enmity.

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