Genesis 26:33
“And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the citie is Beer-sheba vnto this day.”
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Genesis 26:33 Context
31And they rose vp 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 passe the same day, that Isaacs seruants came, and tolde him concerning the well which they had digged, and said vnto him, we haue found water. 33And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the citie is Beer-sheba vnto this day. 34¶ And Esau was forty yeeres old, when he tooke to wife Iudith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite: 35Which were a griefe of minde vnto Isaac and to Rebekah.
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And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city [is] Beersheba unto this day.
- King James Version
So he called it Shibah; therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.
- New American Standard Version (1995)