²⁵ And Abraham reasoned with Abimelech concerning the matter of a well of water which Abimelech's servants have taken violently away,

¹⁵ and all the wells which his father's servants digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines have stopped them, and fill them with dust.

¹⁶ And Abimelech saith unto Isaac, `Go from us; for thou hast become much mightier than we;'

¹⁷ and Isaac goeth from thence, and encampeth in the valley of Gerar, and dwelleth there;

¹⁸ and Isaac turneth back, and diggeth the wells of water which they digged in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines do stop after the death of Abraham, and he calleth to them names according to the names which his father called them.

¹⁹ And Isaac's servants dig in the valley, and find there a well of living water,

²⁰ and shepherds of Gerar strive with shepherds of Isaac, saying, `The water `is' ours;' and he calleth the name of the well `Strife,' because they have striven habitually with him;

²¹ and they dig another well, and they strive also for it, and he calleth its name `Hatred.'

²² And he removeth from thence, and diggeth another well, and they have not striven for it, and he calleth its name Enlargements, and saith, `For -- now hath Jehovah given enlargement to us, and we have been fruitful in the land.'

⁷ and there is a strife between those feeding Abram's cattle and those feeding Lot's cattle; and the Canaanite and the Perizzite `are' then dwelling in the land.

⁸ And they say, `We are not able, till that all the droves be gathered together, and they have rolled away the stone from the mouth of the well, and we have watered the flock.'

¹⁵ And Pharaoh heareth of this thing, and seeketh to slay Moses, and Moses fleeth from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelleth in the land of Midian, and dwelleth by the well.

¹⁶ And to a priest of Midian `are' seven daughters, and they come and draw, and fill the troughs, to water the flock of their father,

¹⁷ and the shepherds come and drive them away, and Moses ariseth, and saveth them, and watereth their flock.

¹⁵ And she saith to him, `Give to me a blessing; when the south land thou hast given me -- then thou hast given to me springs of water; and Caleb giveth to her the upper springs and the lower springs.

¹⁰ Rebuke cometh down on the intelligent More than a hundred stripes on a fool.

⁹ Thy cause plead with thy neighbour, And the secret counsel of another reveal not,

⁵ Better `is' open reproof than hidden love.

¹⁵ `And if thy brother may sin against thee, go and show him his fault between thee and him alone, if he may hear thee, thou didst gain thy brother;