OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 26

Genesis 21:26

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Abimelech said, “I don’t know who has done this thing. You didn’t tell me, and I didn’t hear of it until today.”

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Genesis 21:23–29

23

Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner.”

24

Abraham said, “I will swear.”

25

Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.

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Abimelech said, “I don’t know who has done this thing. You didn’t tell me, and I didn’t hear of it until today.”

27

Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.

28

Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

29

Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven ewe lambs, which you have set by themselves, mean?”

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