Now all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Avraham his father, the Pelishtim had stopped, and filled with earth.
Avraham complained to Avimelekh because of a water well, which Avimelekh's servants had violently taken away.
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.*