18. Arise, pick up the boy and hold him in your hands, for I will make him a great nation.”
19. Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. And she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.
20. God was with the boy; and he grew and lived in the wilderness and became an archer.
21. He lived in the Wilderness of Paran, and his mother found a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.
22. Now it came to pass at that time that Abimelek and Phicol, the commander of his army, spoke to Abraham, saying, “God is with you in all that you do.
23. Now therefore, swear to me by God that you will not deal deceitfully with me, or with my children, or with my descendants. Instead, according to the kindness that I have shown to you, you will show to me and to the land where you have lived.”
24. Abraham said, “I will swear.”
25. Then Abraham complained to Abimelek about a well of water that Abimelek’s servants had violently seized.
26. And Abimelek said, “I do not know who has done this. You did not tell me, and I have not heard of it until today.”
27. So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelek, and the two of them made a covenant.
28. Then Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
29. And Abimelek said to Abraham, “What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs that you have set by themselves?”
30. And he said, “You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand so that they may be a witness that I have dug this well.”