Quotes About Covenant

that you will not harm us, just as we have not harmed you but have done only good to you, sending you on your way in peace. And now you are blessed by the LORD.”

And they got up early the next morning and swore an oath to each other. Then Isaac sent them on their way, and they left him in peace.

So he called it Shibah, and to this day the name of the city is Beersheba.

When Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.

ëBring me some game and prepare me a tasty dish to eat, so that I may bless you in the presence of the LORD before I die.í

So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. “Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” he commanded.

“Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your motherís father Bethuel, and take a wife from among the daughters of Laban, your motherís brother.

And may He give the blessing of Abraham to you and your descendants, so that you may possess the land where you dwell as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.”

Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to take a wife there, commanding him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,”

Esau went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abrahamís son Ishmael, in addition to the wives he already had.

Meanwhile Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran.

And there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you now lie.

And this stone I have set up as a pillar will be Godís house, and of all that You give me I will surely give You a tenth.”

Finally Jacob said to Laban, “Grant me my wife, for my time is complete, and I want to sleep with her.”

And Jacob did just that. He finished the weekís celebration, and Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.

So Rachel gave Jacob her servant Bilhah as a wife, and he slept with her,

and Bilhah conceived and bore him a son.

When Jacob came in from the field that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come with me, for I have hired you with my sonís mandrakes.” So he slept with her that night.

Again Leah conceived and bore a sixth son to Jacob.

“What can I give you?” Laban asked. “You do not need to give me anything,” Jacob replied. “If you do this one thing for me, I will keep on shepherding and keeping your flocks.

“Agreed,” said Laban. “Let it be as you have said.”

Surely all the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So do whatever God has told you.”

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.”

Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between you and me.”