Genesis 21:30
Good News Translation
Abraham answered, "Accept these seven lambs. By doing this, you admit that I am the one who dug this well."

Contemporary English Version
Abraham replied, "I want you to accept these seven lambs as proof that I dug this well."

Douay-Rheims Bible
But he said: Thou shalt take seven ewelambs at my hand: that they may be a testimony for me, that I dug this well.

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But he said: Thou shalt take seven ewelambs at my hand: that they may be a testimony for me, that I dug this well.

a witness.

Genesis 31:44-48,52 Come, therefore, let us enter into a league; that it may be for a testimony between me and thee. . . .

Joshua 22:27,28 But for a testimony between us and you, and our posterity and yours, that we may serve the Lord, and that we may have a right to offer both holocausts, and victims and sacrifices of peace offerings: and that your children to morrow may not say to our children: You have no part in the Lord. . . .

Joshua 24:27 And he said to all the people: Behold this stone shall be a testimony unto you, that it hath heard all the words of the Lord, which he hath spoken to you: lest perhaps hereafter you will deny it, and lie to the Lord your God.

Context
The Covenant at Beersheba
29And Abimelech said to him: What mean these seven ewelambs which thou hast set apart? 30But he said: Thou shalt take seven ewelambs at my hand: that they may be a testimony for me, that I dug this well.31Therefore that place was called Bersabee; because there both of them did swear.…
Cross References
Genesis 21:28
And Abraham set apart seven ewelambs of the flock.

Genesis 21:29
And Abimelech said to him: What mean these seven ewelambs which thou hast set apart?

Genesis 26:15
Stopped up at that time all the wells, that the servants of his father, Abraham, had digged, filling them up with earth:

Genesis 31:48
And Laban said: This heap shall be a witness between me and thee this day, and therefore the name thereof was called Galaad, that is, The witness heap.

Additional Translations
He replied, “You are to accept the seven ewe lambs from my hand as my witness that I dug this well.”And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shall you take of my hand, that they may be a witness to me, that I have dig this well.

And he said, These seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that it may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.

And Abraam said, Thou shalt receive the seven ewe-lambs of me, that they may be for me as a witness, that I dug this well.

And he said, That thou take the seven ewe-lambs of my hand, that they may be a witness to me that I have dug this well.

And he said, These seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that it may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.

And he said, For these seven ewe-lambs shalt thou take from my hand, that they may be a witness to me, that I have digged this well.

He said, "You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well."

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;'
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