24. And Abraham said, "I will swear."
25. And he reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which his servants had taken away by force.
26. And Abimelech responded, "I do not know who did this thing, but you also did not reveal it to me, nor have I heard of it, before today."
27. And so Abraham took sheep and oxen, and he gave them to Abimelech. And both of them struck a pact.
28. And Abraham set aside seven female lambs from the flock.
29. Abimelech said to him, "What purpose have these seven female lambs, which you have caused to stand separately?"
30. But he said, "You will receive seven female lambs from my hand, so that they may be a testimony for me, that I dug this well."
31. For this reason, that place was called Beersheba, because there both of them did swear.
32. And they initiated a pact on behalf of the well of oath.
33. Then Abimelech and Phicol, the leader of his army, rose up, and they returned to the land of the Palestinians. In truth, Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the Lord God Eternal.
34. And he was a settler in the land of the Palestinians for many days.