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Genesis 21:29
And Abimelech said to Abraham, What [mean] these seven ewe-lambs, 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 know not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet 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, which thou hast set by themselves?
30 And he said, For [these] seven ewe-lambs shalt thou take from my hand, that they may be a witness to me, that I have digged this well.
31 Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba: because there they swore both of them.
32 Thus they made a covenant at Beer-sheba: Then Abimelech arose, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
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