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Genesis 31:44
Now come, let’s make a covenant, you and I. Let it be for a witness between me and you.”

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Genesis 31:44
Now come, let’s make a covenant, you and I. Let it be for a witness between me and you.”

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Genesis 31:43
Laban answered Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine! What can I do today to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?

Genesis 31:44
Now come, let’s make a covenant, you and I. Let it be for a witness between me and you.”

Genesis 31:45
Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.

Genesis 31:46
Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.

Genesis 31:47
Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.

Genesis 31:48
Laban said, “This heap is witness between me and you today.” Therefore it was named Galeed

Genesis 31:49
and Mizpah, for he said, “Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.

Genesis 31:50
If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives in addition to my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you.”

Genesis 31:51
Laban said to Jacob, “See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you.

Genesis 31:52
May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.

Joshua 24:27
Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has heard all Yahweh’s words which he spoke to us. It shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God.”

Joshua 22:27
but it will be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we may perform the service of Yahweh before him with our burnt offerings, with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings;’ that your children may not tell our children in time to come, ‘You have no portion in Yahweh.’

Joshua 22:28
“Therefore we said, ‘It shall be, when they tell us or our generations this in time to come, that we shall say, “Behold the pattern of Yahweh’s altar, which our fathers made, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice; but it is a witness between us and you.” ’

Deuteronomy 31:19
“Now therefore write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.

Deuteronomy 31:21
It will happen, when many evils and troubles have come on them, that this song will testify before them as a witness; for it will not be forgotten out of the mouths of their descendants; for I know their ways and what they are doing today, before I have brought them into the land which I promised them.”

Deuteronomy 31:26
“Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of Yahweh your God’s covenant, that it may be there for a witness against you.

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Genesis 26:28
They said, “We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. We said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let’s make a covenant with you,

Genesis 26:29
that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.’ You are now the blessed of Yahweh.”

Genesis 26:30
He made them a feast, and they ate and drank.

Genesis 26:31
They rose up some time in the morning, and swore an oath to one another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

Genesis 21:23
Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner.”

Genesis 21:30
He said, “You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well.”

Genesis 21:31
Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore an oath there.

Genesis 21:32
So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

1 Samuel 20:16
So Jonathan made a covenant with David’s house, saying, “Yahweh will require it at the hand of David’s enemies.”

1 Samuel 20:17
Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had to him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

Genesis 14:22
Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,

Genesis 15:18
In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

Genesis 21:27
Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.

Genesis 31:53
The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” Then Jacob swore by the fear of his father, Isaac.

1 Samuel 30:15
David said to him, “Will you bring me down to this troop?” He said, “Swear to me by God that you will not kill me and not deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this troop.”

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Genesis 31:54
Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night in the mountain.

Hebrews 6:16
For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation.


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