Genesis 21:25-30 ▼

25 And Abraham reasoned with Abimelech concerning the matter of a well of water which Abimelech’s servants have violently taken away,

26 and Abimelech says, “I have not known who has done this thing, and even you did not declare to me, and I also, I have not heard except today.”

27 And Abraham takes sheep and oxen, and gives to Abimelech, and they make, both of them, a covenant;

28 and Abraham sets seven lambs of the flock by themselves.

29 And Abimelech says to Abraham, “What [are] they—these seven lambs which you have set by themselves?”

30 And he says, “For—the seven lambs you accept from my hand, so that it becomes a witness for me that I have dug this well”;