King James Version (KJV)
Genesis 21:31
“Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them.”
Verse in context — Genesis 21
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And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What [mean] these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?
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And he said, For [these] seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.
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Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them.
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Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
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And [Abraham] planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.
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