Genesis 31:44

World English Bible (2000)

Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be for a witness between me and you."

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  • Gen 15:18 : 18 In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
  • Gen 21:22-32 : 22 It happened at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, "God is with you in all that you do. 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." 24 Abraham said, "I will swear." 25 Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away. 26 Abimelech said, "I don't know who has done this thing. Neither did you tell me, neither did I hear of it, until today." 27 Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant. 28 Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. 29 Abimelech said to Abraham, "What do these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves mean?" 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." 31 Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore there. 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.
  • Gen 26:28-31 : 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 us make a covenant with you, 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." 30 He made them a feast, and they ate and drank. 31 They rose up some time in the morning, and swore one to another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
  • Gen 31:48 : 48 Laban said, "This heap is witness between me and you this day." Therefore it was named Galeed
  • Gen 31:52 : 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.
  • Deut 31:19 : 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.
  • Deut 31:21 : 21 It shall happen, when many evils and troubles are come on them, that this song shall testify before them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they frame this day, before I have brought them into the land which I swore."
  • Deut 31:26 : 26 "Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.
  • Josh 22:27 : 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.'
  • Josh 24:25-27 : 25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. 26 Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of Yahweh. 27 Joshua said to all the people, "Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us; for it has heard all the words of Yahweh which he spoke to us. It shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God."
  • 1 Sam 20:14-17 : 14 You shall not only while yet I live show me the loving kindness of Yahweh, that I not die; 15 but also you shall not cut off your kindness from my house forever; no, not when Yahweh has cut off the enemies of David everyone from the surface of the earth." 16 So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, "Yahweh will require it at the hand of David's enemies." 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.

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  • Gen 31:47-53
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    47Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.

    48Laban said, "This heap is witness between me and you this day." Therefore it was named Galeed

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

    50If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you."

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

    52May 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.

    53The 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.

  • Gen 31:42-43
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    42Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night."

    43Laban answered Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine: and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?

  • Gen 26:28
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    28They 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 us make a covenant with you,

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

  • Gen 29:19
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    19Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me."

  • Gen 30:34
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    34Laban said, "Behold, let it be according to your word."

  • Gen 29:13-15
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    13It happened, when Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister's son, that he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.

    14Laban said to him, "Surely you are my bone and my flesh." He lived with him for a month.

    15Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?"

  • Gen 30:27-31
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    27Laban said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake."

    28He said, "Appoint me your wages, and I will give it."

    29He said to him, "You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.

    30For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?"

    31He said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.

  • Gen 31:12-14
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    12He said, 'Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you.

    13I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth.'"

    14Rachel and Leah answered him, "Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?

  • Gen 31:25-26
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    25Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead.

    26Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?

  • Gen 31:2-4
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    2Jacob saw the expression on Laban's face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.

    3Yahweh said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you."

    4Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,

  • Gen 29:21-22
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    21Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her."

    22Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

  • Gen 31:36-37
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    36Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, "What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued after me?

    37Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between us two.

  • Gen 31:31-32
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    31Jacob answered Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I said, 'Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.'

    32Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it." For Jacob didn't know that Rachel had stolen them.

  • Gen 31:16
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    16For all the riches which God has taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do."

  • Gen 24:41
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    41Then will you be clear from my oath, when you come to my relatives. If they don't give her to you, you shall be clear from my oath.'

  • Deut 29:12
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    12that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you this day;

  • Gen 44:30
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    30Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy's life;