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Genesis 21:27

The English Standar Version

So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a covenant.

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Then one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the oaks[1] of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and of Aner. These were allies of Abram.

Abimelech said, "I do not know who has done this thing; you did not tell me, and I have not heard of it until today."

Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock apart.

Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I. And let it be a witness between you and me."

A bribe is like a magic stone in the eyes of the one who gives it; wherever he turns he prospers.

A man's gift makes room for him and brings him before the great.

A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

A gift in secret averts anger, and a concealed bribe,[3] strong wrath.

But he who is noble plans noble things, and on noble things he stands.

And he took one of the royal offspring[2] and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath (the chief men of the land he had taken away),

foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.

To give a human example, brothers:[5] even with a man-made covenant, no one annuls it or adds to it once it has been ratified.

Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own soul.




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