And Abimelech said, I know not who has done this thing: neither did you tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but today.
And there was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanites and the Perizzites dwelled then in the land.
And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.