Joshua 2:20

Webster's Bible (1833)

But if you utter this our business, then we shall be guiltless of your oath which you have made us to swear.

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  • Prov 11:13 : 13 One who brings gossip betrays a confidence, But one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.

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    12Now therefore, please swear to me by Yahweh, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal kindly with my father's house, and give me a true token;

    13and that you will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death.

    14The men said to her, Our life for yours, if you don't utter this our business; and it shall be, when Yahweh gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you.

    15Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was on the side of the wall, and she lived on the wall.

    16She said to them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers light on you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may you go your way.

    17The men said to her, We will be guiltless of this your oath which you have made us to swear.

    18Behold, when we come into the land, you shall bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which you did let us down by: and you shall gather to you into the house your father, and your mother, and your brothers, and all your father's household.

    19It shall be, that whoever shall go out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be on his head, and we shall be guiltless: and whoever shall be with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be on him.

  • Josh 2:21
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  • Josh 9:19-20
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    19But all the princes said to all the congregation, We have sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them.

    20This we will do to them, and let them live; lest wrath be on us, because of the oath which we swore to them.

  • Gen 24:41
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  • Neh 5:12
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    12Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do, even as you say. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.

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    8If the woman isn't willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this my oath. Only you shall not bring my son there again."

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    7They said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!

    8Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then should we steal silver or gold out of your lord's house?

    9With whoever of your servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondservants."

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