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.”
31. Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because the two of them swore an oath there.
32. Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba. Then Abimelek rose with Phicol, the commander of his army, and they returned to the land of the Philistines.
33. Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God.
34. Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines many days.