Abarbanel on Torah, Genesis 26:1:8
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Work: Abarbanel on Torah
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Abarbanel on Torah — Sefaria Community Translation
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However to fulfill that which was further said to him (Genesis 26:3), "as I will give to you and your seed, all of these lands," Scripture recounted the matter of the wells, his leaving Gerar, and that which Abimelech came to seek his friendship - as if he was the master of the land. And observe this story, and see how it indicates this concept: For behold, Scripture mentioned [that] the reason of, "And the Philistines stopped up all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham," was in order that Issac's shepherds should not benefit from them, and go away fr…
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- Abarbanel on Torah — Sefaria Community Translation
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- Public domain
- Reading language
- eng
- Source language
- eng
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- PARTIAL: all supplied nonempty community English leaves only; many Hebrew sections have no English counterpart.
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- Unverified edition; not Human Sealed
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