Genesis 21:22-34
The Covenant at Beersheba

22 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God [is] with thee in all that thou doest:

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23 Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son: [but] according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.

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24 And Abraham said, I will swear.

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

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26 And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I [of it], but to day.

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

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

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

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30 And he said, For [these] seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.

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31 Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them.

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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.

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33 And [Abraham] planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.

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34 And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines’ land many days.

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