Laban also said to Jacob, ‘Look at this mound and the marker I have set up between you and me.
Genesis 31:50 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised 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.’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If you should afflict, humiliate, or lower [divorce] my daughters, or if you should take other wives beside my daughters, although no man is with us [to witness], see (remember), God is witness between you and me. American Standard Version (1901) If thou shalt afflict my daughters, and if thou shalt take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee. Common English Bible If you treat my daughters badly and if you marry other women, though we aren’t there, know that God observed our witness.” Catholic Public Domain Version If you afflict my daughters, and if you bring in other wives over them, no one is a witness of our words except God, who understands beforehand." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If thou afflict my daughters, and if thou bring in other wives over them: None is witness of our speech but God, who is present and beholdeth. |
Laban also said to Jacob, ‘Look at this mound and the marker I have set up between you and me.
because they have committed an outrage in Israel by committing adultery with their neighbours’ wives and have spoken in my name a lie, which I did not command them. I am he who knows, and I am a witness.’ This is the Lord’s declaration.
And they said to Jeremiah, ‘May the Lord be a true and faithful witness against us if we don’t act according to every word the Lord your God sends you to tell us.
You are not to marry a woman as a rival to her sister and have sexual intercourse with her during her sister’s lifetime.
Listen, all you peoples; pay attention, earth and everyone in it! The Lord God will be a witness against you, the Lord, from his holy temple.
And you ask, ‘Why? ’ Because even though the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, you have acted treacherously against her. She was your marriage partner and your wife by covenant.
‘I will come to you in judgement, and I will be ready to witness against sorcerers and adulterers; against those who swear falsely; against those who oppress the hired worker, the widow, and the fatherless; and against those who deny justice to the resident foreigner. They do not fear me,’ says the Lord of Armies.
For we never used flattering speech, as you know, or had greedy motives #– #God is our witness #– #
The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, ‘The Lord is our witness if we don’t do as you say.’
He said to them, ‘The Lord is a witness against you, and his anointed is a witness today that you haven’t found anything in my hand.’ ‘He is a witness,’ they said.