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Genesis 26:33

And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day.
Genesis 26:33 · King James Version

In other versions

  • And he called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day.

    ASV

  • And he gave it the name of Shibah: so the name of that town is Beer-sheba to this day.

    BBE

  • And he called it Shebah; therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba to this day.

    DBY

  • He called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.

    WEB

  • and he calleth it Shebah, `oath,' therefore the name of the city `is' Beer-Sheba, `well of the oath,' unto this day.

    YLT

  • And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day.

    ENG

  • And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba to this day.

    WBT

  • So he called it Shibah, and to this day the name of the city is Beersheba.

    BSB

In context

31And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

32And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.

33And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day.

34And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:

35Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.

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