31 Therefore (A)that place was called Beersheba,[a] because there both of them swore an oath.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 21:31 Beersheba means well of seven or well of the oath

33 He called it Shibah;[a] therefore the name of the city is (A)Beersheba to this day.

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  1. Genesis 26:33 Shibah sounds like the Hebrew for oath

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