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Genesis 26:19

Genesis 26:19 is verse 19 of Genesis chapter 26, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

Then Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found a well of fresh water there.

Or flowing water or living water

BSB source and public domain terms

King James Version

And Isaac’s servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.

World English Bible

Isaac’s servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of flowing water.

Or, living. Or, fresh.

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Genesis 26:17–21 · Berean Standard Bible

17 So Isaac left that place and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there.

18 Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. And he gave these wells the same names his father had given them.

19 Then Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found a well of fresh water there.

20 But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek, because they contended with him.

21 Then they dug another well and quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Song of Solomon 4:15

You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon.

John 4:10

Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

John 4:11

“Sir,” the woman replied, “You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where then will You get this living water?

John 7:38

Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’”

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