31 So that place was called Beersheba,[a](A) because the two men swore an oath(B) there.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 21:31 Beersheba can mean well of seven and well of the oath.

31 Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them.

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32 After the treaty(A) had been made at Beersheba,(B) Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces(C) returned to the land of the Philistines.(D)

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32 Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

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28 They answered, “We saw clearly that the Lord was with you;(A) so we said, ‘There ought to be a sworn agreement between us’—between us and you. Let us make a treaty(B) with you

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28 And they said, We saw certainly that the Lord was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;

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31 Early the next morning the men swore an oath(A) to each other. Then Isaac sent them on their way, and they went away peacefully.

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31 And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

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44 Come now, let’s make a covenant,(A) you and I, and let it serve as a witness between us.”(B)

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44 Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.

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53 May the God of Abraham(A) and the God of Nahor,(B) the God of their father, judge between us.”(C)

So Jacob took an oath(D) in the name of the Fear of his father Isaac.(E)

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53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac.

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