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14 He had many sheep, goats and cows. He also had many servants in his house. He had so many servants that the Philistines became jealous of him. 15 So they took dirt from the ground and they filled up Isaac's wells. When Abraham was alive, his servants had dug these wells to get water.

16 Abimelech said to Isaac ‘You have become too powerful for us. Go and live somewhere else.’

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14 He had so many flocks and herds and servants(A) that the Philistines envied him.(B) 15 So all the wells(C) that his father’s servants had dug in the time of his father Abraham, the Philistines stopped up,(D) filling them with earth.

16 Then Abimelek said to Isaac, “Move away from us;(E) you have become too powerful for us.(F)

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