30 He replied, “Accept these seven lambs from my hand as a witness(A) that I dug this well.(B)

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30 And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.

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30 And he said, “You will take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that (A)they may be my witness that I have dug this well.”

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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.

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

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31 Therefore he (A)called that place [a]Beersheba, because the two of them swore an oath there.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 21:31 Lit. Well of the Oath or Well of the Seven