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• Genesis 21:25

  Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.

• Genesis 21:26

  Abimelech said, “I don’t know who has done this thing. You didn’t tell me, and I didn’t hear of it until today.”

• Genesis 21:27

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

• Genesis 21:28

  Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

• Genesis 21:29

  Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves mean?”

• 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 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.

• Genesis 23:18

  to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.

• Genesis 26:3

  Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

• Genesis 26:15

  Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.

• Genesis 26:31

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

• Genesis 29:15

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

• Genesis 29:16

  Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

• Genesis 29:17

  Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.

• Genesis 29:18

  Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”

• Genesis 29:19

  Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.”

• Genesis 29:20

  Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

• Genesis 29:23

  In the evening, he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her.

• Genesis 29:24

  Laban gave Zilpah his servant to his daughter Leah for a servant.

• Genesis 29:25

  In the morning, behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Didn’t I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?”

• Genesis 29:26

  Laban said, “It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.

• Genesis 29:27

  Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years.”

• Genesis 29:28

  Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.

• Genesis 29:29

  Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his servant, to be her servant.

• Genesis 29:30

  He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

• Genesis 30:27

  Laban 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.”

• Genesis 30:28

  He said, “Appoint me your wages, and I will give it.”

• Genesis 30:29

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

• Genesis 30:30

  For 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?”

• Genesis 30:31

  He 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.

• Genesis 30:32

  I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. This will be my hire.

• Genesis 30:33

  So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that might be with me, will be considered stolen.”

• Genesis 30:34

  Laban said, “Behold, let it be according to your word.”

• Genesis 30:37

  Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.

• Genesis 30:38

  He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink.

• Genesis 30:39

  The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks produced streaked, speckled, and spotted.

• Genesis 30:40

  Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and didn’t put them into Laban’s flock.

• Genesis 30:41

  Whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, Jacob laid the rods in front of the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods;

• Genesis 30:42

  but when the flock were feeble, he didn’t put them in. So the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.

• Genesis 30:43

  The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

• Genesis 31:7

  Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.

• Genesis 31:44

  Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and 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 besides 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Exodus 4:18

  Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, “Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive.” Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”

• Exodus 21:2

  “If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.

• Exodus 21:3

  If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.

• Exodus 21:4

  If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.

• Exodus 21:5

  But if the servant shall plainly say, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;’

• Exodus 21:6

  then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.

• Leviticus 6:1

  Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

• Leviticus 6:2

  “If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against Yahweh, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor,

• Leviticus 6:4

  then it shall be, if he has sinned, and is guilty, he shall restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he has gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found,

• Leviticus 6:5

  or any thing about which he has sworn falsely; he shall restore it even in full, and shall add a fifth part more to it. To him to whom it belongs he shall give it, in the day of his being found guilty.

• Leviticus 6:6

  He shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh, a ram without defect from the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest.

• Leviticus 6:7

  The priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh, and he will be forgiven concerning whatever he does to become guilty.”

• Numbers 18:19

  All the wave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer to Yahweh, I have given you, and your sons and your daughters with you, as a portion forever. It is a covenant of salt forever before Yahweh to you and to your offspring with you.”

• Joshua 9:3

  But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,

• Joshua 9:4

  they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and old, torn-up and bound up wine skins,

• Joshua 9:5

  and old and patched shoes on their feet, and wore old garments. All the bread of their food supply was dry and moldy.

• Joshua 9:6

  They went to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Israel, “We have come from a far country. Now therefore make a covenant with us.”

• Joshua 9:7

  The men of Israel said to the Hivites, “What if you live among us. How could we make a covenant with you?”

• Joshua 9:8

  They said to Joshua, “We are your servants.” Joshua said to them, “Who are you? Where do you come from?”

• Joshua 9:9

  They said to him, “Your servants have come from a very far country because of the name of Yahweh your God; for we have heard of his fame, all that he did in Egypt,

• Joshua 9:15

  Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live. The princes of the congregation swore to them.

• Joshua 9:16

  At the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they lived among them.

• Joshua 9:18

  The children of Israel didn’t strike them, because the princes of the congregation had sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel. All the congregation murmured against the princes.

• Joshua 9:19

  But 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.

• Joshua 9:20

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

• Joshua 9:21

  The princes said to them, “Let them live, so they became wood cutters and drawers of water for all the congregation, as the princes had spoken to them.”

• Joshua 9:22

  Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them, saying, “Why have you deceived us, saying, ‘We are very far from you,’ when you live among us?

• Joshua 9:23

  Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you will never fail to be slaves, both wood cutters and drawers of water for the house of my God.”

• Joshua 9:24

  They answered Joshua, and said, “Because your servants were certainly told how Yahweh your God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you. Therefore we were very afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.

• Joshua 9:25

  Now, behold, we are in your hand. Do to us as it seems good and right to you to do.”

• Joshua 9:26

  He did so to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, so that they didn’t kill them.

• Joshua 9:27

  That day Joshua made them wood cutters and drawers of water for the congregation and for Yahweh’s altar to this day, in the place which he should choose.

• Ruth 4:1

  Now Boaz went up to the gate, and sat down there. Behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by. He said to him, “Come over here, friend, and sit down!” He turned aside, and sat down.

• Ruth 4:2

  He took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, “Sit down here,” and they sat down.

• Ruth 4:6

  The near kinsman said, “I can’t redeem it for myself, lest I endanger my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption for yourself; for I can’t redeem it.”

• Ruth 4:7

  Now this was the custom in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning exchanging, to confirm all things: a man took off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbor; and this was the way of legalizing transactions in Israel.

• Ruth 4:8

  So the near kinsman said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself,” then he took off his shoe.

• 1 Samuel 18:4

  Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him, and gave it to David, and his clothing, even including his sword, his bow, and his sash.

• 1 Kings 5:9

  My servants will bring them down from Lebanon to the sea. I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that you specify to me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and you will receive them. You will accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.”

• 1 Kings 5:10

  So Hiram gave Solomon cedar timber and cypress timber according to all his desire.

• 1 Kings 5:11

  Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand cors of wheat for food to his household, and twenty cors of pure oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year.

• 1 Kings 9:11

  (now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and cypress trees, and with gold, according to all his desire), King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

• 1 Chronicles 16:16

  the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac.

• Proverbs 6:1

  My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger;

• Proverbs 11:21

  Most certainly, the evil man will not be unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered.

• Proverbs 17:18

  A man void of understanding strikes hands, and becomes collateral in the presence of his neighbor.

• Proverbs 22:26

  Don’t you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts.

• Jeremiah 32:10

  I signed the deed, sealed it, called witnesses, and weighed the money in the balances to him.

• Jeremiah 32:11

  So I took the deed of the purchase, both that which was sealed, containing the terms and conditions, and that which was open;

• Jeremiah 32:12

  and I delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my uncle’s son, and in the presence of the witnesses who subscribed the deed of the purchase, before all the Jews who sat in the court of the guard.

• Jeremiah 32:13

  “I commanded Baruch before them, saying,

• Jeremiah 32:14

  Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: ‘Take these deeds, this deed of the purchase which is sealed, and this deed which is open, and put them in an earthen vessel; that they may continue many days.’

• Jeremiah 32:15

  For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: ‘Houses and fields and vineyards shall yet again be bought in this land.’

• Ezekiel 17:18

  For he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant; and behold, he had given his hand, and yet has done all these things. He won’t escape.

• Matthew 20:1

  “For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

• Matthew 20:2

  When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

• Matthew 20:3

  He went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace.

• Matthew 20:4

  He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went their way.

• Matthew 20:5

  Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did likewise.

• Matthew 20:6

  About the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’

• Matthew 20:7

  “They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ “He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.’

• Matthew 20:8

  When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.’

• Matthew 20:9

  “When those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius.

• Matthew 20:10

  When the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise each received a denarius.

• Matthew 20:11

  When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household,

• Matthew 20:12

  saying, ‘These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!’

• Matthew 20:13

  “But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Didn’t you agree with me for a denarius?

• Matthew 20:14

  Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you.

• Matthew 20:15

  Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’

• Matthew 20:16

  So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.”

• Galatians 3:15

  Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man’s covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds to it.

• Colossians 2:14

  wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;

• Hebrews 6:16

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

• Hebrews 6:17

  In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;