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Genesis 21:29-33

Genesis 21:29

Then Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven ewe lambs mean, which you have set by themselves?”

Genesis 21:30

He said, “You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand so that it may be a witness for me, that I dug this well.”

Genesis 21:31

Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because there the two of them took an oath.

Genesis 21:32

So they made a covenant at Beersheba; and Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, got up and returned to the land of the Philistines.

Genesis 21:33

Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God.