Genesis 21:31 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

³¹ 1 Therefore that place was called Bersabee: because both of them did swear.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³¹ Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³¹ Therefore that place was called Beersheba [well of the oath], because there both parties swore an oath.

American Standard Version (1901)

³¹ Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them.

Common English Bible

³¹ Therefore, the name of that place is Beer-sheba because there they gave each other their word.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³¹ For this reason, that place was called Beersheba, because there both of them did swear.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³¹ Therefore that place was called Bersabee: because there both of them did swear.

Genesis 21:31 Cross References

Genesis 21:14

4 So Abraham rose up in the morning, and taking bread and a bottle of water, put it upon her shoulder, and delivered the boy, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Bersabee.

Genesis 21:32

2 And they made a league for the well of oath.

Genesis 26:23

3 And he went up from that place to Bersabee,

Genesis 26:31

1 Arising in the morning, they swore one to another: and Isaac sent them away peaceably to their own home.

Genesis 26:33

3 Whereupon he called it Abundance: and the name of the city was called Bersabee, even to this day.

Genesis 46:1

He heard him by a vision in the night calling him, and saying to him: Jacob, Jacob. And he answered him: Lo, here I am.

2 Samuel 17:11

6 Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying: Tarry not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but without delay pass over: lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that is with him.

2 Samuel 24:7

2 Go, and say to David: Thus saith the Lord: I give thee thy choice of three things, choose one of them which thou wilt, that I may do it to thee.

1 Kings 19:3

And he arose, and ate, and drank, and walked in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights, unto the mount of God, Horeb.

1 Kings 4:25

0 And the wisdom of Solomon surpassed the wisdom of all the Orientals, and of the Egyptians,

Nehemiah 11:27

2 At Anathoth, Nob, Anania,

Amos 5:5

3 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence at that time, for it is an evil time.

Joshua 15:28

3 But in the plains: Estaol and Sarea and Asena,

Judges 20:1

And I took her and cut her in pieces, and sent the, parts into all the borders of your possession: because there never was so heinous a crime, and so great an abomination committed in Israel.