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Genesis 21:30-32
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Genesis 21:30-32
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
30 He said, “These seven ewe lambs you shall accept from my hand in order that you may be a witness for me that I dug this well.”(A) 31 Therefore that place was called Beer-sheba,[a] because there both of them swore an oath.(B) 32 When they had made a covenant at Beer-sheba, Abimelech, with Phicol the commander of his army, left and returned to the land of the Philistines.
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- 21.31 That is, well of seven or well of the oath
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