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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
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Not a person but a well. Isaac's servants dug it, and Genesis 26:33 says it gave Beersheba its name, the well of the oath, or of seven.
Not a person but a well. Isaac's servants dug it, and Genesis 26:33 says it gave Beersheba its name, the well of the oath, or of seven.
Not a person but the well Isaac's servants dug that gave the city of Beersheba its name, "well of the oath" or "well of seven," according to Genesis 26:33. The chapter presents it as the third in a sequence of wells contested between Isaac's household and the Philistines of Gerar, resolved this time by a covenant oath between Isaac and Abimelech rather than by further conflict.
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- Genesis 26:33
