50 If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives, though no one is with us, understand that God will be a witness between you and me.”(A) 51 Laban also said to Jacob, “Look at this mound and the marker I have set up between you and me. 52 This mound is a witness and the marker is a witness that I will not pass beyond this mound to you, and you will not pass beyond this mound and this marker to do me harm. 53 The God of Abraham, and the gods(B) of Nahor—the gods of their father[a]—will judge between us.” And Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.

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Footnotes

  1. 31:53 Two Hb mss, LXX omit the gods of their father

50 If you mistreat(A) my daughters or if you take any wives besides my daughters, even though no one is with us, remember that God is a witness(B) between you and me.”(C)

51 Laban also said to Jacob, “Here is this heap,(D) and here is this pillar(E) I have set up between you and me. 52 This heap is a witness, and this pillar is a witness,(F) that I will not go past this heap to your side to harm you and that you will not go past this heap(G) and pillar to my side to harm me.(H) 53 May the God of Abraham(I) and the God of Nahor,(J) the God of their father, judge between us.”(K)

So Jacob took an oath(L) in the name of the Fear of his father Isaac.(M)

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10 The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “The Lord is our witness if we don’t do as you say.”

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10 The elders of Gilead replied, “The Lord is our witness;(A) we will certainly do as you say.”

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He said to them, “The Lord is a witness against you, and his anointed is a witness today that you haven’t found anything(A) in my hand.”(B)

“He is a witness,” they said.

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Samuel said to them, “The Lord is witness(A) against you, and also his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything(B) in my hand.(C)

“He is witness,” they said.

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