Genesis 26:19
And they digged in the torrent, and found living water.
Challoner: TorrentThat is, a channel where sometimes a torrent or violent stream had run.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Foderuntque in torrente, et repererunt aquam vivam.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὤρυξαν δὲ οἱ παῖδες Ἰσαὰκ ἐν τῇ φάραγγι Γεράρων, καὶ εὗρον ἐκεῖ φρέαρ ὕδατος ζῶντος.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיַּחְפְּר֥וּ עַבְדֵֽי יִצְחָ֖ק בַּנָּ֑חַל וַיִּ֨מְצְאוּ שָׁ֔ם בְּאֵ֖ר מַ֥יִם חַיִּֽים
Haydock's commentary
Torrent. That is, a channel where sometimes a torrent, or violent stream, had run. (Challoner)
In this vale of Gerara, a never-failing spring was found. (Haydock)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.