Genesis 21:24-34
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Chapter 21
24And Abraham said, "I will swear."
25When Abraham reproved Abimelech about a well of water that Abimelech 's servants had seized,
26Abimelech said, "I do not know who has done this thing; you did not tell me, and I have not heard of it until today."
27So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a covenant.
28Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock apart.
29And Abimelech said to Abraham, "What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs that you have set apart?"
30He said, "These seven ewe lambs you will take from my hand, that this may be a witness for me that I dug this well."
31Therefore that place was called Beersheba, because there both of them swore an oath.
32So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army rose up and returned to the land of the Philistines.
33Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba and called there on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God.
34And Abraham sojourned many days in the land of the Philistines.
