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Genesis 21:31

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

33And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the LORD, the Eternal God.

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