18. Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him by the hand, for I will make a great nation of him."
19. Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water; and she went and filled the skin with water and gave the lad a drink.
20. God was with the lad, and he grew; and he lived in the wilderness and became an archer.
21. He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
22. Now it came about at that time that Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, spoke to Abraham, saying, "God is with you in all that you do;
23. now therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my offspring or with my posterity, but according to the kindness that I have shown to you, you shall show to me and to the land in which you have sojourned."
24. Abraham said, "I swear it."
25. But Abraham complained to Abimelech because of the well of water which the servants of Abimelech had seized.
26. And Abimelech said, "I do not know who has done this thing; you did not tell me, nor did I hear of it until today."
27. Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made a covenant.
28. Then Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
29. Abimelech said to Abraham, "What do these seven ewe lambs mean, which you have set by themselves?"