30. Abraham answered, “The seven ewe lambs you shall accept from me that you may be my witness that I dug this well.”
31. This is why the place is called Beer-sheba; the two of them took an oath there.
32. When they had thus made the covenant in Beer-sheba, Abimelech, along with Phicol, the commander of his army, left to return to the land of the Philistines.
33. Abraham planted a tamarisk at Beer-sheba, and there he invoked by name the Lord, God the Eternal.
34. Abraham resided in the land of the Philistines for a long time.