And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?

And Abimelech said to him: What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set apart?

And Abimelech saith unto Abraham, 'What are they, these seven lambs which thou hast set by themselves?'

Then Abimelech said, What are these seven lambs which you have put on one side?

Abimelech said to him, "What purpose have these seven female lambs, which you have caused to stand separately?"

Et dixit Abimelech ad Abraham, Quid sunt septem agnae istae, quos statuisti seorsum?

And Abimelech said unto Abraham,.... Observing what he had done, and not knowing the design of it:
what mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves? he understood what the sheep and oxen were for, that they were presents to him, at least some of them, and the rest were for the solemnizing and ratifying the covenant between them; but what these were for he could not devise.