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Genesis 21:24-34 English Revised Version (ERV)

24. And Abraham said, I will swear.

25. And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of the well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

26. And Abimelech said, I know not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but today.

27. And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and they two made a covenant.

28. And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

29. And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?

30. And he said, These seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that it may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.

31. Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them.

32. So they made a covenant at Beer-sheba: and Abimelech rose up, and Phicol the captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

33. And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.

34. And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.

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