Genesis 21:25–34

²⁵And Abraham reasoned with Abimelech concerning the matter of a well of water which Abimelech’s servants have taken violently away, ²⁶and 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.’ ²⁷And Abraham taketh sheep and oxen, and giveth to Abimelech, and they make, both of them, a covenant; ²⁸and Abraham setteth seven Lambs of the flock by themselves. ²⁹And Abimelech saith unto Abraham, ‘What are they—these seven lambs which thou hast set by themselves?’ ³⁰And 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;’ ³¹therefore hath he called that place ‘Beer-Sheba,’ for there have both of them sworn. ³²And 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.

³³And Abraham planteth a tamarisk in Beer-Sheba, and preacheth there in the name of Jehovah, God age-during; ³⁴and Abraham sojourneth in the land of the Philistines many days.

Chapter 22