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Genesis 21:30

“He replied, “You are to accept the seven ewe lambs from my hand as my witness that I dug this well.””

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²⁸Abraham separated seven ewe lambs from the flock,

²⁹And Abimelech asked him, “Why have you set apart these seven ewe lambs?”

³⁰He replied, “You are to accept the seven ewe lambs from my hand as my witness that I dug this well.”

³¹So that place was called Beersheba, because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.

³²After they had made the covenant at Beersheba, Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army got up and returned to the land of the Philistines.

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