29 And Abimelech said to Abraham, “Why have you separated these seven ewe lambs?”

30 He replied, “You are to accept the seven ewe lambs from me so that this act[a] will serve as my witness that I dug this well.” 31 Therefore that place was called Beer-sheba[b](A) because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.

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Footnotes

  1. 21:30 Lit that it
  2. 21:31 = Well of the Oath, or Seven Wells

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