Discovery BoxGenesis 21:27 
Context21:27 Abraham took some sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech. The two of them made a treaty. 1
Genesis 21:32
Context21:32 So they made a treaty 2 at Beer Sheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, returned 3 to the land of the Philistines. 4
1 tn Heb “cut a covenant.”
2 tn Heb “cut a covenant.”
3 tn Heb “arose and returned.”
4 sn The Philistines mentioned here may not be ethnically related to those who lived in Palestine in the time of the judges and the united monarchy. See D. M. Howard, “Philistines,” Peoples of the Old Testament World, 238.
