[The Pentateuch]

And it chanced the same season / that Abimelech and Phicoll his chief captain spake unto Abraham saying: God is with the in all that thou doest. Now therefore swear unto me even here by God / that thou wilt not hurt me nor my children / nor my children's children. ⟨image 36⟩But that thou shalt deal with me and the country where thou art a stranger / according unto the kindness that I have showed thee. Then said Abraham: I will swear.

And it chaunced the same season / that Abimelech and Phicoll his chefe captayne spake vnto Abraham saynge: God is wyth the in all that thou doist. Now therfore swere vnto me even here by God / that thou wylt not hurt me nor my childern / nor my childerns childern. ⟨image 36⟩But that thou shalt deale with me and the contre where thou art a straunger / acordynge vnto the kyndnesse that I haue shewed the. Then sayde Abraham: I wyll swere.

And Abraham rebuked Abimelech for a well of water / which Abimelech servants had taken away. And Abimelech answered I wist not who did it: Also thou toldest me not / nether heard I of it / but this day.

And Abraham rebuked Abimelech for a well of water / which Abimelech servaun•es had taken awaye. And Abimelech answered I wyst not who dyd it: Also thou toldest me not / nether herde I of it / but this daye.

And Abraham toke sheep and oxen and gave t••• unto Abimelech. And they made both of them a bond together. And Abraham se vij. lambs by them selves. And Abimelech said unto Abraham: what mean these .vij. lambs which thou hast set by them selves. And he answered: vij. lambs shalt thou take of my hand / that it may be a witness unto me / that I have digged this well: Wherefore the place is called Beersheba / because they sware both of them. Thus made they a bond together at Beersheba.