Now therefore come you, let us make a covenant, I and you; and let it be for a witness between me and you. Treasury of Scripture let us. Genesis 15:18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, To your seed have I given this land... Genesis 21:22-32 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spoke to Abraham, saying... Genesis 26:28-31 And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with you: and we said, Let there be now an oath between us, even between us and you... 1 Samuel 20:14-17 And you shall not only while yet I live show me the kindness of the LORD, that I die not... a witness. Genesis 31:48,52 And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and you this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed... Genesis 21:30 And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shall you take of my hand, that they may be a witness to me, that I have dig this well. Deuteronomy 31:19,21,26 Now therefore write you this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths... Joshua 22:27 But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us... Joshua 24:25-27 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem... God can put a bridle into the mouth of wicked man to restrain their malice; and then, though they have no love for his people, they will pretend to it, and try to make a merit of necessity. Scott.
Context Jacob's Covenant with Laban
43And Laban answered and said to Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that you see is mine: and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children which they have born? 44Now therefore come you, let us make a covenant, I and you; and let it be for a witness between me and you. 45And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. 46And Jacob said to his brothers, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there on the heap. 47And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed. 48And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and you this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed; 49And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another. 50If you shall afflict my daughters, or if you shall take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness between me and you. 51And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast between me and you: 52This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you shall 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. And Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac. 54Then Jacob offered sacrifice on the mount, and called his brothers to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount. 55And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned to his place. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
And now come, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Come therefore, let us enter into a league: that it may be for a testimony between me and thee.
Darby Bible Translation
And now, come, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be a witness between me and thee.
King James Bible
Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.
Young's Literal Translation
and now, come, let us make a covenant, I and thou, and it hath been for a witness between me and thee.'
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