Abraão pôs à parte sete jovens ovelhas do rebanho.
Gênesis 21:28
Comentário de Adam Clarke
Sete cordeiros de ovelha – ou eram dados de presente ou tinham como objetivo o preço do poço; e sendo aceitos por Abimeleque, serviram como testemunha de que ele havia reconhecido o direito de Abraão ao poço em questão.
Comentário de John Calvin
28. And Abraham set seven ewe-lambs of the flock by themselves . Moses recites another chief point of the covenant; namely, that Abraham made express provision for himself respecting the well, that he should have free use of its water. And he placed in the midst seven lambs, that the king being presented with the honorary gift, might approve and ratify the digging of the well. For the inhabitants might provoke a controversy, on the ground that it was not lawful for a private man, and a stranger, to dig a well; but now, when the public authority of the king intervened, Abraham’s peace was consulted, that no one might disturb him. Many understand lambs here to mean pieces of money coined in the form of lambs, but since mention has previously been made of sheep and oxen, and Moses now immediately subjoins that seven lambs are placed apart, it is absurd, in this connection, to speak of money.
