24 And Abraham saith, `I -- I do swear.`
         
                                
                        25 And Abraham reasoned with Abimelech concerning the matter  of a well of water which Abimelech`s servants have taken  violently away,
         
                                
                        26 and Abimelech saith, `I have not known who hath done this  thing, and even thou didst not declare to me, and I also, I  have not heard save to-day.`
         
                                
                        27 And Abraham taketh sheep and oxen, and giveth to  Abimelech, and they make, both of them, a covenant;
         
                                
                        28 and Abraham setteth seven Lambs of the flock by  themselves.
         
                                
                        29 And Abimelech saith unto Abraham, `What [are] they --  these seven lambs which thou hast set by themselves?`
         
                                
                        30 And he saith, `For -- the seven lambs thou dost accept  from my hand, so that it becometh a witness for me that I have  digged this well;`