Genesis 21:30

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And he said, Take these seven lambs from me as a witness that I have made this water-hole.

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  • Gen 31:52 : 52 They will be witness that I will not go over these stones to you, and you will not go over these stones or this pillar to me, for any evil purpose.
  • Josh 22:27-28 : 27 But to be a witness between us and you, and between the future generations, that we have the right of worshipping the Lord with our burned offerings and our offerings of beasts and our peace-offerings; so that your children will not be able to say to our children in time to come, You have no part in the Lord. 28 For we said to ourselves, If they say this to us or to future generations, then we will say, See this copy of the Lord's altar which our fathers made, not for burned offerings or offerings of beasts, but for a witness between us and you.
  • Josh 24:27 : 27 And Joshua said to all the people, See now, this stone is to be a witness against us; for all the words of the Lord have been said to us in its hearing: so it will be a witness against you if you are false to the Lord your God.
  • Gen 31:44-48 : 44 Come, let us make an agreement, you and I; and let it be for a witness between us. 45 Then Jacob took a stone and put it up as a pillar. 46 And Jacob said to his people, Get stones together; and they did so; and they had a meal there by the stones. 47 And the name Laban gave it was Jegar-sahadutha: but Jacob gave it the name of Galeed. 48 And Laban said, These stones are a witness between you and me today. For this reason its name was Galeed,

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    22 Now at that time, Abimelech and Phicol, the captain of his army, said to Abraham, I see that God is with you in all you do.

    23 Now, then, give me your oath, in the name of God, that you will not be false to me or to my sons after me, but that as I have been good to you, so you will be to me and to this land where you have been living.

    24 And Abraham said, I will give you my oath.

    25 But Abraham made a protest to Abimelech because of a water-hole which Abimelech's servants had taken by force.

    26 But Abimelech said, I have no idea who has done this thing; you never gave me word of it, and I had no knowledge of it till this day.

    27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made an agreement together.

    28 And Abraham put seven young lambs of the flock on one side by themselves.

    29 Then Abimelech said, What are these seven lambs which you have put on one side?

  • Gen 21:31-32
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    31 So he gave that place the name Beer-sheba, because there the two of them had given their oaths.

    32 So they made an agreement at Beer-sheba, and Abimelech and Phicol, the captain of his army, went back to the land of the Philistines.

  • Gen 20:13-15
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    13 And when God sent me wandering from my father's house, I said to her, Let this be the sign of your love for me; wherever we go, say of me, He is my brother.

    14 Then Abimelech gave to Abraham sheep and oxen and men-servants and women-servants, and gave him back his wife Sarah.

    15 And Abimelech said, See, all my land is before you; take whatever place seems good to you.

  • 15 Now all the water-holes, which his father's servants had made in the days of Abraham, had been stopped up with earth by the Philistines.

  • Gen 29:2-3
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    2 And there he saw a water-hole in a field, and by the side of it three flocks of sheep, for there they got water for the sheep: and on the mouth of the water-hole there was a great stone.

    3 And all the flocks would come together there, and when the stone had been rolled away, they would give the sheep water, and put the stone back again in its place on the mouth of the water-hole.

  • Gen 20:9-10
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    9 Then Abimelech sent for Abraham, and said, What have you done to us? what wrong have I done you that you have put on me and on my kingdom so great a sin? You have done to me things which are not to be done.

    10 And Abimelech said to Abraham, Why did you do this thing?

  • Gen 26:18-22
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    18 And he made again the water-holes which had been made in the days of Abraham his father, and which had been stopped up by the Philistines; and he gave them the names which his father had given them.

    19 Now Isaac's servants made holes in the valley, and came to a spring of flowing water.

    20 But the herdmen of Gerar had a fight with Isaac's herdmen, for they said, The spring is ours: so he gave the spring the name of Esek, because there was a fight about it.

    21 Then they made another water-hole, and there was a fight about that, so he gave it the name of Sitnah.

    22 Then he went away from there, and made another water-hole, about which there was no fighting: so he gave it the name of Rehoboth, for he said, Now the Lord has made room for us, and we will have fruit in this land.

  • 14 Now, may the girl to whom I say, Let down your vessel and give me a drink, and who says in answer, Here is a drink for you and let me give water to your camels: may she be the one marked out by you for your servant Isaac: so may I be certain that you have been good to my master Abraham.

  • Gen 26:32-33
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    32 And that day Isaac's servants came to him and gave him word of the water-hole which they had made, and said to him, We have come to water.

    33 And he gave it the name of Shibah: so the name of that town is Beer-sheba to this day.

  • 9 And the servant put his hand under Abraham's leg, and gave him his oath about this thing.

  • 9 So God has taken away your father's cattle and has given them to me.

  • 25 Then he made an altar there, and gave worship to the name of the Lord, and he put up his tents there, and there his servants made a water-hole.

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    8 And he said to them, If you will let me put my dead to rest here, make a request for me to Ephron, the son of Zohar,

    9 That he will give me the hollow in the rock named Machpelah, which is his property at the end of his field; let him give it to me for its full price as a resting-place for my dead among you.

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    42 And I came today to the water-spring, and I said, O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, if it is your purpose to give a good outcome to my journey,

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    2 And Abraham said to his chief servant, the manager of all his property, Come now, put your hand under my leg:

    3 And take an oath by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not get a wife for my son Isaac from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living;

  • 52 They will be witness that I will not go over these stones to you, and you will not go over these stones or this pillar to me, for any evil purpose.

  • 44 Come, let us make an agreement, you and I; and let it be for a witness between us.

  • 20 And the field and the hollow rock were handed over to Abraham as his property by the children of Heth.

  • 5 Did he not say to me himself, She is my sister? and she herself said, He is my brother: with an upright heart and clean hands have I done this.

  • 19 Then Abraham went back to his young men and they went together to Beer-sheba, the place where Abraham was living.

  • 5 And in answer the children of Heth said to Abraham,

  • 17 So Ephron's field at Machpelah near Mamre, with the hollow in the rock and all the trees in the field and round it,

  • 14 So that fountain was named, Fountain of Life and Vision: it is between Kadesh and Bered.