Genesis 21:27
“And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.”
And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.
And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to day.
And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.
And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?
Counter-Arguments
The strongest case that this verse does not belong in this theme.
Cross-References
“But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.”
“A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.”
“A man’s gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.”
“Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.”
“A gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath.”