Genesis 21:31-32
31Therefore athat place was called Beersheba, ▼▼ Beersheba means well of seven or well of the oath
because there both of them swore an oath. 32So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army rose up and returned to the land of the Philistines. Genesis 24:3
3that I may make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and God of the earth, that cyou will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell,Genesis 24:41
41Then you will be free from my oath, when you come to my clan. And if they will not give her to you, you will be free from my oath.’Genesis 31:49-53
49 dand Mizpah, ▼▼ Mizpah means watchpost
for he said, “The Lord watch between you and me, when we are out of one another’s sight. 50If you oppress my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no one is with us, see, fGod is witness between you and me.” 51Then Laban said to Jacob, “See this heap and the pillar, which I have set between you and me. 52 gThis heap is a witness, and the pillar is a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, to do harm. 53The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” So Jacob swore by the hFear of his father Isaac,
Hebrews 6:16
16For people swear by something greater than themselves, and in all their disputes ian oath is final for confirmation.
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