SinaiGenesis 21:31
American Standard Version
Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them.
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Genesis 21:31 in other translations
Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore an oath there.
Genesis 21:31 in context
- 29And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?
- 30And he said, These seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that it may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.
- 31Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them.
- 32So they made a covenant at Beer-sheba: and Abimelech rose up, and Phicol the captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
- 33And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of Jehovah, the Everlasting God.