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30 Abraham answered, “When you accept these lambs from me, it will be proof that I dug this well.”

31 So after that, the well was called Beersheba.[a] Abraham gave the well this name because it was the place where they made a promise to each other.

32 So Abraham and Abimelech made an agreement at Beersheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol, his military commander, went back to the country of the Philistines.

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  1. Genesis 21:31 Beersheba This name means “well of the oath.”

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