Genesis 21:29

29 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, "What mean these seven ewe lambs, which thou hast set by themselves?"

Genesis 21:29 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 21:29

And Abimelech said unto Abraham
Observing what he had done, and not knowing the design of it: what [mean] these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?
he understood what the sheep and oxen were for, that they were presents to him, at least some of them, and the rest were for the solemnizing and ratifying the covenant between them; but what these were for he could not devise.

Genesis 21:29 In-Context

27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them unto Abimelech, and both of them made a covenant.

28 And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

29 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, "What mean these seven ewe lambs, which thou hast set by themselves?"

30 And he said, "These seven ewe lambs shalt thou take from my hand, that they may be a witness unto me that I have dug this well."

31 Therefore he called that place Beersheba [that is, The well of the oath], because there they swore, both of them.