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Genesis 21:29
And Abimelech said to Abraham, What [mean] these seven ewe-lambs, these which thou hast set by themselves?
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Genesis 21:29 in other translations
And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?
and Abimelech asked him, “Why have you set apart these seven ewe lambs?”
Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven ewe lambs, which you have set by themselves, mean?”
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In context
26 And Abimelech said, I do not know who has done this, neither hast thou told me [of it], neither have I heard [of it] but to-day.
27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.
28 And Abraham set seven ewe-lambs of the flock by themselves.
29 And Abimelech said to Abraham, What [mean] these seven ewe-lambs, these which thou hast set by themselves?
30 And he said, That thou take the seven ewe-lambs of my hand, that they may be a witness to me that I have dug this well.
31 Therefore he called that place Beer-sheba, because there they had sworn, both of them.
32 And they made a covenant at Beer-sheba. And Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the captain of his host, and returned into the land of the Philistines.
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