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29 Abimelech asked him, “What is the meaning of these seven female lambs you have set apart?”

30 Abraham answered, “Accept these lambs from me so that they may be proof[a] that I dug this well.” 31 This is why that place is called Beersheba,[b] because both of them swore an oath there.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 21:30 Or “a witness.”
  2. Genesis 21:31 Beersheba can mean either “Well of the Seven” or “Well of the Oath.”

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