For all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.
And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shall you take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have dug this well.