Catholic Public Domain Version
"For this reason, that place was called Beersheba, because there both of them did swear. "
— Genesis 21:31, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Wherefore he called that place Beer–sheba; because there they sware both of them.”
“Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them. ”
“Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore there.”
“That is why he named that place Beer Sheba, because the two of them swore an oath there.”
“Therefore that place was called Bersabee; because there both of them did swear.”
“So he gave that place the name Beer-sheba, because there the two of them had given their oaths.”
“Wherefore he called that place Beer–sheba; because there they sware both of them.”
And Abraham set aside seven female lambs from the flock.
Abimelech said to him, “What purpose have these seven female lambs, which you have caused to stand separately?”
But he said, “You will receive seven female lambs from my hand, so that they may be a testimony for me, that I dug this well.”
For this reason, that place was called Beersheba, because there both of them did swear.
And they initiated a pact on behalf of the well of oath.
Then Abimelech and Phicol, the leader of his army, rose up, and they returned to the land of the Palestinians. In truth, Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the Lord God Eternal.
And he was a settler in the land of the Palestinians for many days.