And Abraham said, I will swear (21:24)

And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away (21:25)

And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I [of it], but to day (21:26)

And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant (21:27)

And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves (21:28)

And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What [mean] these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves? (21:29)

And he said, For [these] seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well (21:30)

Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them (21:31)

Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines (21:32)

And [Abraham] planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God (21:33)

And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days (21:34)

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