Genesis 21:29
“What are these seven female lambs for that you've separated from the flock?” Abimelech asked.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?
In Context
28Abraham also separated out seven female lambs from the flock.
Cross References
Exodus 12:26When your children come and ask you, ‘Why is this ceremony important to you?’
Matthew Henry on Genesis 21:23-33
Abimelech's Covenant with Abraham. ( b. c. 1892.) 22 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest: 23 Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned. 24 And Abraham said, I will swear. 25 And Abraham… Read the whole commentary →