Genesis 21
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Genesis 21:31-33

31So that place was called Beersheba, because the two men swore an oath there.

32After the treaty had been made at Beersheba, Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces returned to the land of the Philistines.

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

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