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29 Abimelek said to Abraham, “Why have you set these seven ewe lambs by themselves?”

30 He said, “You shall accept these seven ewe lambs from my hand as legal testimony that I have dug this well.” 31 Therefore, he called that place Beersheba,[a] because they both took an oath there.

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  1. Genesis 21:31 Beersheba can mean well of the oath or well of seven.