31 Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them.

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31 So that place was called Beersheba,[a](A) because the two men swore an oath(B) there.

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Footnotes

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

32 Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

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32 After the treaty(A) had been made at Beersheba,(B) Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces(C) returned to the land of the Philistines.(D)

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