◄ Genesis 26:19 ►
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Good News Translation
Isaac's servants dug a well in the valley and found water.

New Revised Standard Version
But when Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found there a well of spring water,

Contemporary English Version
While his servants were digging in the valley, they found a spring-fed well.

New American Bible
But when Isaac’s servants dug in the wadi and reached spring water in their well,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they digged in the torrent, and found living water:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they digged in the torrent, and found living water:

springing water.

Songs 4:15 The fountain of gardens: the well of living waters, which run with a strong stream from Libanus.

John 4:10,11 Jesus answered and said to her: If thou didst know the gift of God and who he is that saith to thee: Give me to drink; thou perhaps wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. . . .

John 7:38 He that believeth in me, as the scripture saith: Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

Context
Isaac's Prosperity
…18And he digged again other wells, which the servants of his father, Abraham, had digged, and which, after his death, the Philistines had of old stopped up: and he called them by the same names, by which his father before had called them. 19And they digged in the torrent, and found living water:20But there also the herdsmen of Gerara strove against the herdsmen of Isaac, saying: It is our water. Wherefore he called the name of the well, on occasion of that which had happened, Calumny.…
Cross References
Genesis 26:18
And he digged again other wells, which the servants of his father, Abraham, had digged, and which, after his death, the Philistines had of old stopped up: and he called them by the same names, by which his father before had called them.

Genesis 26:20
But there also the herdsmen of Gerara strove against the herdsmen of Isaac, saying: It is our water. Wherefore he called the name of the well, on occasion of that which had happened, Calumny.

Genesis 26:18
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