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And Abraham said, "I will swear."
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Then Abraham rebuked Abimelech because of a well of water which Abimelech's servants had seized.
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And Abimelech said, "I do not know who has done this thing; you did not tell me, nor had I heard of it until today."
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So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made a covenant.
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And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
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Then Abimelech asked Abraham, "What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves?"
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And he said, "You will take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that they may be my witness that I have dug this well."
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Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because the two of them swore an oath there.
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Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba. So Abimelech rose with Phichol, the commander of his army, and they returned to the land of the Philistines.
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Then Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there called on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God.
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And Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines many days.