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Genesis - ch 21 v 21 - 34
- He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.
- It happened at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, "God is with you in all that you do.
- Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner."
- Abraham said, "I will swear."
- Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
- Abimelech said, "I don't know who has done this thing. Neither did you tell me, neither did I hear of it, until today."
- Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.
- Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
- Abimelech said to Abraham, "What do these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves mean?"
- He said, "You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well."
- Therefore he called that place Beersheba,1 because they both swore there.
- So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
- Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.
- Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.
- Beersheba can mean "well of the oath" or "well of seven."
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