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.