Genesis 21:30

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He replied, 'Accept these seven lambs from my hand as a witness that I dug this well.'

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  • Gen 31:52 : 52 This heap is a witness, and this pillar is a witness, that I will not pass beyond this heap to harm you, and you will not pass beyond this heap and this pillar to harm me.
  • Josh 22:27-28 : 27 but as a witness between us and you and the generations that follow, that we will worship the LORD at His sanctuary with our burnt offerings, sacrifices, and fellowship offerings.’ Then in the future, your descendants will not be able to say to ours, ‘You have no share in the LORD.’ 28 And we said, ‘If they ever say this to us or to our descendants, we will answer: Look at the replica of the altar of the LORD, which our ancestors built—not for burnt offerings or sacrifices, but as a witness between us and you.’
  • Josh 24:27 : 27 And Joshua said to all the people, "See, this stone will serve as a witness against us. It has heard all the words the LORD has spoken to us. It will be a witness against you if you deny your God.
  • Gen 31:44-48 : 44 Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between us.' 45 So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar. 46 He said to his relatives, 'Gather some stones.' So they took stones and piled them in a heap, and they ate there by the heap. 47 Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed. 48 Laban said, 'This heap is a witness between you and me today.' That is why it was called Galeed.

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  • Gen 21:22-29
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    87%

    22At that time, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, said to Abraham, 'God is with you in everything you do.'

    23Now swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me, my children, or my descendants. Show to me and the land where you have lived the same kindness I have shown to you.

    24Abraham said, 'I swear it.'

    25Then Abraham rebuked Abimelech about the well of water that Abimelech’s servants had seized.

    26But Abimelech said, 'I do not know who did this. You did not tell me, and I have only heard about it today.'

    27So Abraham took sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made a covenant.

    28Abraham set apart seven ewe lambs from the flock.

    29Abimelech asked Abraham, 'What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs that you have set apart by themselves?'

  • Gen 21:31-32
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    31That is why the place was called Beersheba, because the two of them swore an oath there.

    32After making the covenant at Beersheba, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, returned to the land of the Philistines.

  • Gen 20:13-15
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    73%

    13And when God caused me to wander from my father’s household, I said to her, “This is the kindness you can show to me: Everywhere we go, say about me, ‘He is my brother.’”

    14Then Abimelech brought sheep, cattle, male and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and he returned Sarah, his wife, to him.

    15And Abimelech said, 'My land is before you; settle wherever you please.'

  • Gen 26:15
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    15The Philistines stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug during the days of Abraham his father, filling them with dirt.

  • Gen 29:2-3
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    2He saw a well in the field, and behold, three flocks of sheep were lying beside it because that well was where the flocks were watered. A large stone was over the mouth of the well.

    3All the flocks would gather there, and the shepherds would roll the stone away from the well’s opening to water the sheep, and then they would put the stone back over the well’s mouth in its place.

  • Gen 20:9-10
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    9Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, 'What have you done to us? How have I wronged you that you have brought such a great sin upon me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that should never be done.'

    10And Abimelech asked Abraham, 'What was your reason for doing this?'

  • Gen 26:18-22
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    72%

    18Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham's death; he gave them the same names his father had given them.

    19Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found a well of flowing water there.

    20But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, "The water is ours!" So he named the well Esek, because they disputed with him.

    21Isaac’s servants then dug another well, but they also quarreled over it. So he named it Sitnah.

    22He moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over this one. So he named it Rehoboth, and he said, "Now the LORD has given us room, and we will flourish in the land."

  • Gen 24:14
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    14May it be that when I say to a young woman, 'Please let down your jar so that I may drink,' and she says, 'Drink, and I'll water your camels too,' let her be the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master."

  • Gen 26:32-33
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    32That same day, Isaac's servants came and told him about the well they had dug, saying, "We have found water!"

    33He called it Shibah. Therefore, the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.

  • Gen 24:9
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    9So the servant placed his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham and swore an oath to him concerning this matter.

  • Gen 31:9
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    9So God has taken away your father’s livestock and given it to me.

  • Gen 26:25
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    25So Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD. He pitched his tent there, and his servants dug a well.

  • Gen 23:8-9
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    8He said to them, “If you are willing to let me bury my dead out of my sight, listen to me and plead with Ephron son of Zohar on my behalf.

    9Ask him to give me the cave of Machpelah, which belongs to him and is at the edge of his field. Let him sell it to me for its full price as a burial site among you.”

  • Gen 24:42-43
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    42So today I came to the spring and prayed, 'Lord, God of my master Abraham, if you are making my journey successful,

    43see, I am standing beside this spring. If a young woman comes out to draw water and I say to her, "Please give me a little water from your jar to drink,"

  • Gen 24:2-3
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    2Abraham said to his servant, the eldest in his household who managed all he owned, "Please, place your hand under my thigh.

    3I want you to swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not choose a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living.

  • Gen 31:52
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    52This heap is a witness, and this pillar is a witness, that I will not pass beyond this heap to harm you, and you will not pass beyond this heap and this pillar to harm me.

  • Gen 31:44
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    44Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between us.'

  • Gen 23:20
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    20So the field and the cave that was in it were officially deeded to Abraham by the Hittites as a burial site.

  • Gen 20:5
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    5'Did he not say to me,

  • Gen 22:19
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    19Then Abraham returned to his young men, and together they set out and went to Beersheba, and Abraham settled in Beersheba.

  • Gen 23:5
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    5The Hittites replied to Abraham,

  • Gen 23:17
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    17So the field of Ephron in Machpelah near Mamre—the field with its cave and all the trees within its borders—was legally transferred.

  • Gen 16:14
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    14Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi; it is located between Kadesh and Bered.