30. And he said, “You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand so that they may be a witness that I have dug this well.”
31. Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because the two of them swore an oath there.
32. Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba. Then Abimelek rose with Phicol, the commander of his army, and they returned to the land of the Philistines.
33. Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God.
34. Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines many days.