31Therefore that place was called Bersabee: because both of them did swear.


In Context

28 And Abraham set apart seven ewe lambs of the flock.

29 And Abimelech said to him: What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set apart?

30 But he said: Thou shalt take seven ewe lambs at my hand: that they may be a testimony for me, that I dug this well.

31 Therefore that place was called Bersabee: because both of them did swear.

32 And they made a league for the well of oath.

33 And Abimelech, and Phicol the general of his army arose and returned to the land of the Palestines. But Abraham planted a grove in Bersabee, and there called upon the name of the Lord God eternal.

Genesis 21:31 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:31Wherefore he called that place Beer- sheba; because there they sware both of them.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

21:31So that place was called Beersheba, because the two men swore an oath there.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

21:31Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba. Because there they sware both of them.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:31Therefore he called that place Beer-sheba, because there they had sworn, both of them.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

21:31Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:31Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba: because there they swore both of them.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:31Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore there.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

21:31therefore hath he called that place 'Beer-Sheba,' for there have both of them sworn.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:31Why he called that place Beersheba; because there they swore both of them.