◄ Genesis 21:30 ►
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Good News Translation
Abraham answered, "Accept these seven lambs. By doing this, you admit that I am the one who dug this well."

New Revised Standard Version
He said, “These seven ewe lambs you shall accept from my hand, in order that you may be a witness for me that I dug this well.”

Contemporary English Version
Abraham replied, "I want you to accept these seven lambs as proof that I dug this well."

New American Bible
Abraham answered, “The seven ewe lambs you shall accept from me that you may be my witness that I dug this well.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
But he said: Thou shalt take seven ewelambs at my hand: that they may be a testimony for me, that I dug this well.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But he said: Thou shalt take seven ewelambs at my hand: that they may be a testimony for me, that I dug this well.

a witness.

Genesis 31:44-48,52 Come, therefore, let us enter into a league; that it may be for a testimony between me and thee. . . .

Joshua 22:27,28 But for a testimony between us and you, and our posterity and yours, that we may serve the Lord, and that we may have a right to offer both holocausts, and victims and sacrifices of peace offerings: and that your children to morrow may not say to our children: You have no part in the Lord. . . .

Joshua 24:27 And he said to all the people: Behold this stone shall be a testimony unto you, that it hath heard all the words of the Lord, which he hath spoken to you: lest perhaps hereafter you will deny it, and lie to the Lord your God.

Context
The Covenant at Beersheba
…29And Abimelech said to him: What mean these seven ewelambs which thou hast set apart? 30But he said: Thou shalt take seven ewelambs at my hand: that they may be a testimony for me, that I dug this well.31Therefore that place was called Bersabee; because there both of them did swear.…
Cross References
Genesis 21:28
And Abraham set apart seven ewelambs of the flock.

Genesis 21:29
And Abimelech said to him: What mean these seven ewelambs which thou hast set apart?

Genesis 26:15
Stopped up at that time all the wells, that the servants of his father, Abraham, had digged, filling them up with earth:

Genesis 31:48
And Laban said: This heap shall be a witness between me and thee this day, and therefore the name thereof was called Galaad, that is, The witness heap.

Genesis 21:29
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