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Genesis - ch 21 v 21 - 34
- And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran. And his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
- And it came to pass at that time that Abimelech, and Phichol the captain of his host, spoke to Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest.
- And now swear to me here by God that thou wilt not deal deceitfully with me, nor with my son, nor with my grandson. According to the kindness that I have done to thee, thou shalt do to me, and to the land in which thou sojournest.
- And Abraham said, I will swear.
- And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water that Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
- And Abimelech said, I do not know who has done this, neither hast thou told me of it, neither have I heard of it but to-day.
- And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.
- And Abraham set seven ewe-lambs of the flock by themselves.
- And Abimelech said to Abraham, What mean these seven ewe-lambs, these which thou hast set by themselves?
- And he said, That thou take the seven ewe-lambs of my hand, that they may be a witness to me that I have dug this well.
- Therefore he called that place Beer-sheba, because there they had sworn, both of them.
- And they made a covenant at Beer-sheba. And Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the captain of his host, and returned into the land of the Philistines.
- And Abraham planted a tamarisk in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of Jehovah, the Eternal ùGod.
- And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.
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