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Genèse 21:31

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31 C'est pourquoi on appela ce lieu-là Béer-Shéba (puits du serment); car ils y jurèrent tous deux.

Genèse 21:31 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 21:31

Wherefore he called that place Beersheba
Either Abraham or Abimelech, or both, called it so; or it may be read impersonally, "therefore the place was called Beersheba" F20, for two reasons, one implied, the other expressed; one was, because of the seven lambs before mentioned; so the Targum of Jonathan,

``and therefore he called the well the well of seven lambs;''
"Beer" signifying a well, and "sheba" seven; the other, and which is more certain, being expressed, is as follows; because there they sware both of them;
by the living God, to keep the covenant inviolably they had made between them.
FOOTNOTES:

F20 (arqy) "vocatus", V. L. Calvin, Piscator.
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Genèse 21:31 In-Context

29 Et Abimélec dit à Abraham: Qu'est-ce que ces sept jeunes brebis que tu as mises à part?
30 Et il répondit: C'est que tu accepteras ces sept jeunes brebis de ma main, afin que ce me soit un témoignage que j'ai creusé ce puits.
31 C'est pourquoi on appela ce lieu-là Béer-Shéba (puits du serment); car ils y jurèrent tous deux.
32 Ils traitèrent donc alliance à Béer-Shéba. Puis Abimélec se leva avec Picol, chef de son armée, et ils retournèrent au pays des Philistins.
33 Et Abraham planta un tamarin à Béer-Shéba, et il invoqua là le nom de l'Éternel, le Dieu d'éternité.
The Ostervald translation is in the public domain.

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