Genesis 21
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Genesis 21:31-33

31Therefore that place was called Beersheba, because there both of them swore an oath.

32So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army rose up and returned to the land of the Philistines.

33Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba and called there on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God.

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