Joshua 2:13

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

that you will spare the lives of my father, mother, brothers, sisters, and all who belong to them, and rescue us from death.”

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  • 14 The men said to her,“If you die, may we die too! If you do not report what we’ve been up to, then, when the LORD hands the land over to us, we will show unswerving allegiance to you.”

  • 12 So now, promise me this with an oath sworn in the LORD’s name. Because I have shown allegiance to you, show allegiance to my family. Give me a solemn pledge

  • Gen 12:12-13
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    12 When the Egyptians see you they will say,‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will keep you alive.

    13 So tell them you are my sister so that it may go well for me because of you and my life will be spared on account of you.”

  • Gen 43:7-8
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    7 They replied,“The man questioned us thoroughly about ourselves and our family, saying,‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ So we answered him in this way. How could we possibly know that he would say,‘Bring your brother down’?”

    8 Then Judah said to his father Israel,“Send the boy with me and we will go immediately. Then we will live and not die– we and you and our little ones.

  • 19 He said,“They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. I swear, as surely as the LORD is alive, if you had let them live, I would not kill you.”

  • Gen 44:29-34
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    29 If you take this one from me too and an accident happens to him, then you will bring down my gray hair in tragedy to the grave.’

    30 “So now, when I return to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us– his very life is bound up in his son’s life.

    31 When he sees the boy is not with us, he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father in sorrow to the grave.

    32 Indeed, your servant pledged security for the boy with my father, saying,‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I will bear the blame before my father all my life.’

    33 “So now, please let your servant remain as my lord’s slave instead of the boy. As for the boy, let him go back with his brothers.

    34 For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn’t bear to see my father’s pain.”

  • Josh 2:16-20
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    16 She told them,“Head to the hill country, so the ones chasing you don’t find you. Hide from them there for three days, long enough for those chasing you to return. Then you can be on your way.”

    17 The men said to her,“We are not bound by this oath you made us swear unless the following conditions are met:

    18 When we invade the land, tie this red rope in the window through which you let us down, and gather together in your house your father, mother, brothers, and all who live in your father’s house.

    19 Anyone who leaves your house will be responsible for his own death– we are innocent in that case! But if anyone with you in the house is harmed, we will be responsible.

    20 If you should report what we’ve been up to, we are not bound by this oath you made us swear.”

  • 7 Now the entire family has risen up against your servant, saying,‘Turn over the one who struck down his brother, so that we can execute him and avenge the death of his brother whom he killed. In so doing we will also destroy the heir.’ They want to extinguish my remaining coal, leaving no one on the face of the earth to carry on the name of my husband.”

  • 11 Rescue me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, as well as the mothers with their children.

  • 22 We said to my lord,‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he leaves his father, his father will die.’

  • 16 Yes! The king may listen and deliver his female servant from the hand of the man who seeks to remove both me and my son from the inheritance God has given us!’

  • 17 my father fought for you; he risked his life and delivered you from Midian’s power.

  • 11 She replied,“In that case, let the king invoke the name of the LORD your God so that the avenger of blood may not add to the killing! Then they will not destroy my son!” He replied,“As surely as the LORD lives, not a single hair of your son’s head will fall to the ground.”

  • 14 May the Sovereign God grant you mercy before the man so that he may release your other brother and Benjamin! As for me, if I lose my children I lose them.”

  • 16 Surely all the wealth that God snatched away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So now do everything God has told you.”

  • 25 They replied,“You have saved our lives! You are showing us favor, and we will be Pharaoh’s slaves.”

  • 20 But you must bring your youngest brother to me. Then your words will be verified and you will not die.” They did as he said.

  • 20 We said to my lord,‘We have an aged father, and there is a young boy who was born when our father was old. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’

  • 13 When God made me wander from my father’s house, I told her,‘This is what you can do to show your loyalty to me: Every place we go, say about me,“He is my brother.”’”

  • 33 “Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us,‘This is how I will find out if you are honest men. Leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for your hungry households and go.

  • 20 We must let them live so we can escape the curse attached to the oath we swore to them.”

  • 19 Your servant has found favor with you, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I am not able to escape to the mountains because this disaster will overtake me and I’ll die.

  • 14 While I am still alive, extend to me the loyalty of the LORD, or else I will die!

  • 41 You will be free from your oath if you go to my relatives and they will not give her to you. Then you will be free from your oath.’

  • 23 Now swear to me right here in God’s name that you will not deceive me, my children, or my descendants. Show me, and the land where you are staying, the same loyalty that I have shown you.”

  • 19 by saving their lives from death and sustaining them during times of famine.

  • Gen 24:37-38
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    37 My master made me swear an oath. He said,‘You must not acquire a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living,

    38 but you must go to the family of my father and to my relatives to find a wife for my son.’

  • 29 so that you will not do us any harm, just as we have not harmed you, but have always treated you well before sending you away in peace. Now you are blessed by the LORD.”

  • 2 He then said,“Look, I hear that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy grain for us so that we may live and not die.”

  • 23 But David said,“No! You shouldn’t do this, my brothers. Look at what the LORD has given us! He has protected us and has delivered into our hands the raiding party that came against us.