26 Abimelech replied, “I don’t know who did this thing. You didn’t report anything to me, so I hadn’t heard about it until today.”
27 Abraham took sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made a covenant.
28 Abraham separated seven ewe lambs from the flock.
29 And Abimelech said to Abraham, “Why have you separated these seven ewe lambs? ”
30 He replied, “You are to accept the seven ewe lambs from my hand so that this act will serve as my witness that I dug this well.”
31 Therefore that place was called Beer-sheba because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.
32 After they had made a covenant at Beer-sheba, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, left and returned to the land of the Philistines.