27. Then Abraham took a flock of sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made a covenant.
28. Abraham set seven young ewe-lambs apart from the flock of sheep by themselves.
29. Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven ewe-lambs that you’ve set by themselves mean?”
30. He said, “You are to accept the seven ewe-lambs from my hand, so that they may be a witness for me that I dug this well.”
31. That is why that place is named Beer-sheba, because there both of them made a pledge,
32. and they made a covenant in Beer-sheba. Then Abimelech got up, with Phicol the commander of his army, and they returned to the land of the Philistines.
33. Then he planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba and called there on the Name of Adonai, the Everlasting God.
34. He lived as an outsider in the land of the Philistines for many days.