29and Abimelech asked Abraham, "What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs you have set apart by themselves?"


In Context

26 But Abimelech said, "I don't know who has done this. You did not tell me, and I heard about it only today."

27 So Abraham brought sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a treaty.

28 Abraham set apart seven ewe lambs from the flock,

29 and Abimelech asked Abraham, "What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs you have set apart by themselves?"

30 He replied, "Accept these seven lambs from my hand as a witness that I dug this well."

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

Genesis 21:29 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:29And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What [mean] these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

21:29And Abimelech said to him: What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set apart?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

21:29And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:29And Abimelech said to Abraham, What mean these seven ewe-lambs, these which thou hast set by themselves?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

21:29And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:29And Abimelech said to Abraham, What mean these seven ewe-lambs, which thou hast set by themselves?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:29Abimelech said to Abraham, |What do these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves mean?|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

21:29And Abimelech saith unto Abraham, 'What are they — these seven lambs which thou hast set by themselves?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:29And Abimelech said to Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves?