Genesis 21:29

29 Abimelech asked him, "What is the meaning of these seven female lambs you have set apart?"

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 Abraham took some sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made an agreement.

28 Then Abraham set apart seven female lambs from the flock.

29 Abimelech asked him, "What is the meaning of these seven female lambs you have set apart?"

30 Abraham answered, "Accept these lambs from me so that they may be proof that I dug this well."

31 This is why that place is called Beersheba, because both of them swore an oath there.