Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven ewe lambs, which you have set by themselves, mean?”
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Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven ewe lambs, which you have set by themselves, mean?”
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And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?
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And Abimelech said unto Abraham: 'What mean these seven ewe-lambs which thou hast set by themselves?'
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Passages linked to Genesis 21:29 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 33:8 Esau said, “What do you mean by all this company which I met?” Jacob said, “To find favor in the sight of my lord.”
- Exodus 12:26 It will happen, when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’
- 1 Samuel 15:14 Samuel said, “Then what does this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the cattle which I hear mean?”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 21:29 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What [mean]…
Gen 21:29 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What [mean] these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?
Gen 21:30 And he said, For [these] seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.
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Ver. 29, 30. These seven ewe-lambs.] Wherewith I will buy my peaceable enjoyment of this well, for the future.
That they may be a witness.] A means to prevent contention, which is sooner stirred than stinted. And I have not observed, saith one, that many have been healed by going into troubled waters, though moved by the best angels of the Church.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba,.... Which took…
Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba,.... Which took its name from the oath annexed to the covenant there made; and which is observed for the sake of what follows, to show that when they finished their agreement, and the ceremony of it:
then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol, the chief captain of his host; from the place where they had been conversing and covenanting with Abraham:
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and they returned into the land of the Philistines; from Beersheba, which was in the extreme border of it, unto Gerar, which lay in the midst of it, and was the capital city in it; otherwise both places were in Palestine, or the land of the Philistines, a people that came out of Egypt originally, and settled here: in Jerom's (u) time Beersheba was a large village, twenty miles from Hebron to the south.
(u) De loc. Heb. fol. 89. F.
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