Genesis 21:22-34

22Now at that time Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, said to Abraham, “God is with you in everything you do;

23so now, swear to me here by God that you will not deal unfairly with me [by breaking any agreements we have] or with my son or with my descendants, but as I have treated you with kindness, you shall do the same to me and to the land in which you have sojourned (temporarily lived).”

24And Abraham said, “I will swear.”

25Then Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well of water which the servants of Abimelech had [violently] seized [from him],

26Abimelech said, “I do not know who did this thing. Indeed, you did not tell me, and I did not hear of it until today.”

27So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a covenant (binding agreement).

28Then Abraham set apart seven ewe lambs of the flock,

29and Abimelech said to Abraham, “What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs which you have set apart?”

30Abraham said, “You are to accept these seven ewe lambs from me as a witness for me, that I dug this well.”

31Therefore that place was called Beersheba (Well of the Oath or Well of the Seven), because there the two of them swore an oath.

32So they made a covenant at Beersheba; then Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, got up and returned to the land of the Philistines.

33Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the Lord [in prayer], the Eternal God.

34And Abraham lived [as a resident alien] in the land of the Philistines for many days.