Genesis 26:20 - English Standard Version 2016

²⁰ the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” So he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water is our's: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ And the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, The water is ours. And he named the well Esek [contention] because they quarreled with him.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ And the herdsmen of Gerar strove with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Isaac’s shepherds argued with Gerar’s shepherds, each claiming, “This is our water.” So Isaac named the well Esek because they quarreled with him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ But in that place also the shepherds of Gerar argued against the shepherds of Isaac, by saying, "It is our water." For this reason, he called the name of the well, because of what had happened, 'Calumny.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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 26:20 Marejeleo ya Msalaba

Genesis 13:7

and there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were dwelling in the land.

Genesis 21:25

When Abraham reproved Abimelech about a well of water that Abimelech’s servants had seized,

Genesis 26:19

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

Genesis 26:21

Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that also, so he called its name Sitnah.

Genesis 46:34

you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,’ in order that you may dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.”