Genesis 21:23-34 ▼

23 Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner.|

24 And Abraham said, |I swear.|

25 Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

26 Abimelech said, |I do not know who has done this thing. Neither did you tell me, neither did I hear of it, until today.|

27 Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made a covenant.

28 Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

29 Abimelech said to Abraham, |What do these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves mean?|

30 He said, |You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well.|

31 Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore there.

32 So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the commander of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

33 And he planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, El Olam.

34 Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.