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THE FIRST BOOK OF MOSES CALLED
GENESIS
CHAPTER 21
  31 Wherefore he called that place aBeer-sheba; because there they sware both of them.

Footnotes
31a
IE The well of the oath, or well of seven.
Gen. 21: 14 (14, 32).
  14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and asent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of bBeer-sheba.
Gen. 26: 18, 33.
  18 And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their anames after the names by which his father had called them.
Gen. 46: 1.
  1 And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to aBeer-sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.