Genesis 21:25-32

21st Century King James Version

²⁵ And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.

²⁶ And Abimelech said, “I know not who hath done this thing; neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it until today.”

²⁷ And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them unto Abimelech, and both of them made a covenant.

²⁸ And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

²⁹ And Abimelech said unto Abraham, “What mean these seven ewe lambs, which thou hast set by themselves?”

³⁰ And he said, “These seven ewe lambs shalt thou take from my hand, that they may be a witness unto me that I have dug this well.”

³¹ Therefore he called that place Beersheba [that is, The well of the oath], because there they swore, both of them.

³² Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba. Then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.