¹⁷ So Isaac moved away from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar,^(A) where he settled. ¹⁸ Isaac reopened the wells^(B) that had been dug in the time of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died, and he gave them the same names his father had given them.

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