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Genesis 21:22-32

Genesis 21:22-32

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And it cometh to pass at that time that Abimelech speaketh--Phichol also, head of his host--unto Abraham, saying, `God is with thee in all that thou art doing;
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and now, swear to me by God here: thou dost not lie to me, or to my continuator, or to my successor; according to the kindness which I have done with thee thou dost with me, and with the land in which thou hast sojourned.'
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And Abraham saith, `I--I do swear.'
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And Abraham reasoned with Abimelech concerning the matter of a well of water which Abimelech's servants have taken violently away,
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and Abimelech saith, `I have not known who hath done this thing, and even thou didst not declare to me, and I also, I have not heard save to-day.'
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And Abraham taketh sheep and oxen, and giveth to Abimelech, and they make, both of them, a covenant;
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and Abraham setteth seven Lambs of the flock by themselves.
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And Abimelech saith unto Abraham, `What are they--these seven lambs which thou hast set by themselves?'
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And he saith, `For--the seven lambs thou dost accept from my hand, so that it becometh a witness for me that I have digged this well;'
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therefore hath he called that place `Beer-Sheba,' for there have both of them sworn.
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And they make a covenant in Beer-Sheba, and Abimelech riseth--Phichol also, head of his host--and they turn back unto the land of the Philistines;
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