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Genesis 21:31
Therefore he called that place Beer-sheba, because there they had sworn, both of them.
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Genesis 21:31 in other translations
Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them.
So that place was called Beersheba, because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.
Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore an oath there.
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In context
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.
33 And [Abraham] planted a tamarisk in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of Jehovah, the Eternal God.
34 And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.
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