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BrLXXἈπᾴρας δὲ ἐκεῖθεν ὤρυξε φρέαρ ἕτερον· ἐκρίνοντο δὲ καὶ περὶ ἐκείνου· καὶ ἐπωνόμασε τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ, Ἐχθρία. (Aparas de ekeithen ōruxe frear heteron; ekrinonto de kai peri ekeinou; kai epōnomase to onoma autou, Eⱪthria. )
BrTrAnd having departed thence he dug another well, and they strove also for that; and he named the name of it, Enmity.
ULTThen they dug another well, but they quarreled over it too, so he called its name Sitnah.
USTThen Isaac’s servants dug another well, but Gerar’s herdsmen argued with them about that one too, so Isaac named it Sitnah, which means “hostility.”
BSB § Then they dug another well and quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.[fn]
KJB-1611[fn]And they digged another well, and stroue for that also: and hee called the name of it, Sitnah. (And they digged another well, and stroue for that also: and he called the name of it, Sitnah.)
BshpsAnd they digged another well, and stroue for that also: and he called the name of it enmitie.
GnvaAfterwarde they digged another well, and stroue for that also, and he called the name of it Sitnah.
CvdlThen dygged they another well, and stroue for that also: therfore called he it Sytena. (Then dygged they another well, and stroue for that also: therefore called he it Sytena.)
WyclAnd thei diggiden anothir, and thei stryueden also for that, and Ysaac clepide that pit enemytes. (And they diggiden another, and they striveden also for that, and Ysaac called that pit enemytes.)
LuthDa gruben sie einen andern Brunnen, da zankten sie auch über; darum hieß er ihn Sitna. (So gruben they/she/them a change Brunnen, there zankten they/she/them also über; therefore was_called he him/it Sitna.)
ClVgFoderunt autem et alium: et pro illo quoque rixati sunt, appellavitque eum Inimicitias. (Foderunt however and alium: and for illo too rixati are, appellavitque him Inimicitias. )
26:1-35 In this digression from Jacob’s story, Isaac’s prosperity (ch 26) shows that the blessing had passed to him (cp. 25:11) despite his failures of faith.
Be consistent here with how you translated quarreled in the first part of verse 20. Alternate translation: “but once again the herdsmen from Gerar disputed with them about that well too,”
וַיִּקְרָ֥א שְׁמָ֖הּ
and=he/it_called his/its=name
Consider whether or not it is better in your language to begin a new sentence here. Alternate translation: “so he named it” or “So he named the well”
Though the patriarch Isaac moved from place to place several times within southern Canaan, compared to his father Abraham and his son Jacob, Isaac appears to have been a bit of a homebody. In fact, unless Isaac resettled in places not recorded in Scripture, the farthest extent he ever traveled appears to have been only about 90 miles (113 km). Yet, as the child of God’s promise to Abraham to build a great nation from his descendants, Isaac’s relatively simple life served as a critical bridge from Abraham to the beginnings of the twelve tribes of Israel, who were descended from Isaac’s son Jacob. It is likely that Isaac was born at Beersheba (see Genesis 21:1-24), and later Abraham offered him as a sacrifice on Mount Moriah (located at Jerusalem; see 2 Chronicles 3:1). Then Abraham, Isaac, and those with them returned to Beersheba (Genesis 22:1-19). When Isaac reached adulthood, his father sent a servant to bring back a bride for him from Aram-naharaim, far north of Canaan. When his bride, Rebekah, arrived, Isaac had just come from Beer-lahai-roi and settled in the Negev (Genesis 24:62). Later Isaac resettled with Rebekah in Beer-lahai-roi, and this may have been where their twins son Esau and Jacob were born. A famine forced Isaac to go to Gerar (Genesis 26:1-6) in “the land of the Philistines.” The distinct people group known as the Philistines in later books of the Bible did not arrive until the time of the Judges, so the term here must have referred to another people group living in this region, and this is supported by the fact that King Abimelech’s name is Semitic, not Aegean (the likely origin of the later Philistines). While Isaac was there, he repeated his father’s error (Genesis 20) by lying to the king that his wife was only his sister. Isaac also became increasingly prosperous at Gerar, so the Philistines told him to leave their region. Isaac moved away from the town of Gerar and settled further away in the valley of Gerar. There he dug a well, but the Philistines claimed it for themselves, so he called it Esek, meaning “argument.” So Isaac’s men dug another well and called it Sitnah (meaning “hostility”), but it led to more quarreling, so he dug yet another well and called it Rehoboth (meaning “open space”). The locations of these two later wells are not certain, but they may have been located near Ruheibeh as shown on this map. Then Isaac moved to Beersheba and built an altar. He also dug a well there, and King Abimelech of the Philistines came and exchanged oaths of peace with him. It was likely at Beersheba that Isaac blessed his sons Esau and Jacob, and both sons eventually left Canaan (see “Jacob Goes to Paddan-Aram” map). When Jacob later returned, he traveled to Mamre near Hebron and reunited with Isaac. Sometime after this Isaac died, and Jacob and Esau buried him there.
