Verse 30
Genesis 21:30
Literal Standard Version
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And he says, “For—the seven lambs you accept from my hand, so that it becomes a witness for me that I have dug this well”;
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּ֕אמֶר כִּ֚י אֶת שֶׁ֣בַע כְּבָשֹׂ֔ת תִּקַּ֖ח מִ/יָּדִ֑/י בַּ/עֲבוּר֙ תִּֽהְיֶה לִּ֣/י לְ/עֵדָ֔ה כִּ֥י חָפַ֖רְתִּי אֶת הַ/בְּאֵ֥ר הַ/זֹּֽאת
English Translation
And he said, "For you shall take seven lambs from my hand; it shall be a witness to me because I have dug this well."
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Chapter 21 Context
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And YHWH has looked after Sarah as He has said, and YHWH does to Sarah as He has spoken;
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and Sarah conceives, and bears a son to Abraham, to his old age, at the appointed time that God (Elo...
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and Abraham calls the name of his son who is born to him, whom Sarah has borne to him—Isaac;
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and Abraham circumcises his son Isaac, being a son of eight days, as God (Elohim) has commanded him.
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And Abraham is a son of one hundred years in his son Isaac being born to him,
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and Sarah says, “God (Elohim) has made laughter for me; everyone who is hearing laughs for me.”
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She also says, “Who has said to Abraham, Sarah has suckled sons, that I have born a son for his old...
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And the boy grows, and is weaned, and Abraham makes a great banquet in the day of Isaac’s being wean...
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and Sarah sees the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she has borne to Abraham, mocking,
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and she says to Abraham, “Cast out this handmaid and her son; for the son of this handmaid has no po...
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And the thing is very wrong in the eyes of Abraham, for his son’s sake;
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and God (Elohim) says to Abraham, “Let it not be wrong in your eyes because of the youth, and becaus...
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As for the son of the handmaid also, for a nation I set him, because he is your seed.”
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And Abraham rises early in the morning, and takes bread, and a bottle of water, and gives to Hagar (...
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and the water is consumed from the bottle, and she places the boy under one of the shrubs.
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And she goes and sits by herself opposite him, far off, about a bow-shot, for she said, “Do not let...
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And God (Elohim) hears the voice of the youth; and the messenger of God (Elohim) calls to Hagar from...
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rise, lift up the youth, and lay hold on him with your hand, for I set him for a great nation.”
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And God (Elohim) opens her eyes, and she sees a well of water, and she goes and fills the bottle wit...
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and God (Elohim) is with the youth, and he grows, and dwells in the wilderness, and is an archer;
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and he dwells in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother takes for him a wife from the land of Egypt...
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And it comes to pass at that time that Abimelech speaks—Phichol also, head of his host—to Abraham, s...
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and now, swear to me by God (Elohim) here: you do not lie to me, or to my continuator, or to my succ...
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And Abraham says, “I swear.”
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And Abraham reasoned with Abimelech concerning the matter of a well of water which Abimelech’s serva...
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and Abimelech says, “I have not known who has done this thing, and even you did not declare to me, a...
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And Abraham takes sheep and oxen, and gives to Abimelech, and they make, both of them, a covenant;
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and Abraham sets seven lambs of the flock by themselves.
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And Abimelech says to Abraham, “What are they—these seven lambs which you have set by themselves?”
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And he says, “For—the seven lambs you accept from my hand, so that it becomes a witness for me that...
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therefore he has called that place “Beer-Sheba,” for both of them have sworn there.
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And they make a covenant in Beer-Sheba, and Abimelech rises—Phichol also, head of his host—and they...
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and Abraham plants a tamarisk in Beer-Sheba, and preaches there in the Name of YHWH, the perpetual G...
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and Abraham sojourns in the land of the Philistines many days.
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