Genesis 21:29-30

Gen 21:29 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What [mean] these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves? Gen 21:30 And he said, For [these] seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.

Ver. 29, 30. These seven ewe-lambs. ] Wherewith I will buy my peaceable enjoyment of this well, for the future.

That they may be a witness. ] A means to prevent contention, which is sooner stirred than stinted. And I have not observed, saith one, that many have been healed by going into troubled waters, though moved by the best angels of the Church.