Genesis 21:27-34 ▼

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”;

31 therefore he has called that place “Beer-Sheba,” for both of them have sworn there.

32 And they make a covenant in Beer-Sheba, and Abimelech rises—Phichol also, head of his host—and they return to the land of the Philistines;

33 and [Abraham] plants a tamarisk in Beer-Sheba, and preaches there in the Name of YHWH, the perpetual God;

34 and Abraham sojourns in the land of the Philistines many days.