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Genesis 26:32

English Standard Version 2016

That same day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well that they had dug and said to him, “We have found water.”

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A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.

So he built an altar there and called upon the name of the Lord and pitched his tent there. And there Isaac’s servants dug a well.

In the morning they rose early and exchanged oaths. And Isaac sent them on their way, and they departed from him in peace.

He called it Shibah; therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.