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Genesis 21:20-22
New Catholic Bible
Genesis 21:20-22
New Catholic Bible
20 God was with the child, and he grew and lived in the desert and became an archer. 21 He lived in the desert of Paran, and his mother found him a wife in the land of Egypt.
22 First Link with the Promised Land.[a] At that time, Abimelech along with Phicol, the commander of his army, came and said to Abraham, “God is with you in everything that you do.
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- Genesis 21:22 Two popular traditions are fused to explain the name “Beer-sheba”: one explains it as meaning “well of the oath,” the other as “well of the seven,” that is, the seven lambs that the Patriarch gives the master of the territory as a guarantee of the agreement between them.
