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Genesis - ch 21 v 21 - 34
- and he dwelleth in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother taketh for him a wife from the land of Egypt.
- And it cometh to pass at that time that Abimelech speaketh -- Phichol also, head of his host -- unto Abraham, saying, `God `is' with thee in all that thou art doing;
- and now, swear to me by God here: thou dost not lie to me, or to my continuator, or to my successor; according to the kindness which I have done with thee thou dost with me, and with the land in which thou hast sojourned.'
- And Abraham saith, `I -- I do swear.'
- And Abraham reasoned with Abimelech concerning the matter of a well of water which Abimelech's servants have taken violently away,
- and Abimelech saith, `I have not known who hath done this thing, and even thou didst not declare to me, and I also, I have not heard save to-day.'
- And Abraham taketh sheep and oxen, and giveth to Abimelech, and they make, both of them, a covenant;
- and Abraham setteth seven Lambs of the flock by themselves.
- And Abimelech saith unto Abraham, `What `are' they -- these seven lambs which thou hast set by themselves?'
- And he saith, `For -- the seven lambs thou dost accept from my hand, so that it becometh a witness for me that I have digged this well;'
- therefore hath he called that place `Beer-Sheba,' for there have both of them sworn.
- And they make a covenant in Beer-Sheba, and Abimelech riseth -- Phichol also, head of his host -- and they turn back unto the land of the Philistines;
- and `Abraham' planteth a tamarask in Beer-Sheba, and preacheth there in the name of Jehovah, God age-during;
- and Abraham sojourneth in the land of the Philistines many days.
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