And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.

He replied, “You are to accept the seven ewe lambs from my hand as my witness that I dug this well.”

For all the wells which his father’s servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.

So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.

And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.

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.

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

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

And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.

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

And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.

He moved on from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. He named it Rehoboth and said, “At last the LORD has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”

And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac’s servants digged a well.

So Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD, and he pitched his tent there. His servants also dug a well there.

And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.

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

O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.

May I never enter their council; may I never join their assembly. For they kill men in their anger, and hamstring oxen on a whim.

My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.

my father made me swear an oath when he said, ‘I am about to die. You must bury me in the tomb that I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.’ Now let me go and bury my father, and then return.”

And all the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river.

So all the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, because they could not drink the water from the river.

The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:

The princes dug the well; the nobles of the people hollowed it out with their scepters and with their staffs.” From the wilderness the Israelites went on to Mattanah,

And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;

with houses full of every good thing with which you did not fill them, with wells that you did not dig, and with vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant—and when you eat and are satisfied,

I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.

I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”

Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.

Since he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hill country and in the fertile fields.

And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.

They captured fortified cities and fertile land and took houses full of all goods, wells already dug, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled; they grew fat and delighted in Your great goodness.

He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.

He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.

For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.

For without cause they laid their net for me; without reason they dug a pit for my soul.

They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.

They spread a net for my feet; my soul was despondent. They dug a pit before me, but they themselves have fallen into it! Selah

That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.

to grant him relief from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked.