Genesis 21:30-32

Revised Geneva Translation

³⁰ And he answered, “Because you shall receive these seven lambs from my hand as a witness that I have dug this well.”

³¹ Therefore the place is called Beersheba, because there they both swore.

³² Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba. Afterward, Abimelech and Phichol, the chief captain, rose up and turned again to the land of the Philistines.