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Lexicon :: Strong's H1285 - bᵊrîṯ

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בְּרִית
Transliteration
bᵊrîṯ
Pronunciation
ber-eeth'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From בָּרָה (H1262) (in the sense of cutting [like בָּרָא (H1254)])
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TWOT Reference: 282a

Strong’s Definitions

בְּרִית bᵉrîyth, ber-eeth'; from H1262 (in the sense of cutting [like H1254]); a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh):—confederacy, (con-) feder(-ate), covenant, league.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 284x

The KJV translates Strong's H1285 in the following manner: covenant (264x), league (17x), confederacy (1x), confederate (1x), confederate (with H1167) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 284x
The KJV translates Strong's H1285 in the following manner: covenant (264x), league (17x), confederacy (1x), confederate (1x), confederate (with H1167) (1x).

  1. covenant, alliance, pledge

    1. between men

      1. treaty, alliance, league (man to man)

      2. constitution, ordinance (monarch to subjects)

      3. agreement, pledge (man to man)

      4. alliance (of friendship)

      5. alliance (of marriage)

    2. between God and man

      1. alliance (of friendship)

      2. covenant (divine ordinance with signs or pledges)

  2. (phrases)

    1. covenant making

    2. covenant keeping

    3. covenant violation

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
בְּרִית bᵉrîyth, ber-eeth'; from H1262 (in the sense of cutting [like H1254]); a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh):—confederacy, (con-) feder(-ate), covenant, league.
STRONGS H1285: Abbreviations
בְּרִית 285 noun feminine covenant (|| Aramaic קְיָם, διαθήκη; constitutio) — ב׳ Genesis 9:13 + 199 times; suffix בְּרִיתִי Genesis 6:18 + 50 times; בְּרִיתְךָ Deuteronomy 33:9; בְּרִיתֶ֑ךָ Psalm 44:18 + 11 times; בְּרִיתְכֶם Isaiah 28:18; בְּרִיתֵךְ Ezekiel 16:61; בְּרִיתוֺ Exodus 2:24 + 18 times; — pact, compact, covenant.
I. between men.
1. trety, alliance, league: Abraham and Amorites Genesis 14:13; Edom and its allies Obadiah 7; with Philistines Genesis 21:27, 32 (E) Genesis 26:28 (J); Jacob and Laban Genesis 31:44 (J); Joshua and Gibeonites Joshua 9:6, 7, 11, 15, 16 (J); Israel and Canaanites Exodus 23:32; Exodus 34:12, 15 (JE) Deuteronomy 7:2; Judges 2:2; Ammonites and Jabesh 1 Samuel 11:1; Solomon and Hiram 1 Kings 5:26; Ahab and Benhadad 1 Kings 20:34; Syria and Israel 1 Kings 15:19 2 Chronicles 16:3; Nebuchadnezzar and Zedekiah Ezekiel 17:13-19; nations against Israel Psalm 83:6; nations with Egypt Ezekiel 30:5; Ephraim and Assyria Hosea 12:2; Judah and Israel Ezekiel 16:61; Judah and Tyre Amos 1:9; Assyria and Judah Isaiah 33:8; נגיד ברית a prince in league (with him) Daniel 11:22 (so He Ew; Hi Meinh Bev reference to high priest Onias III, & translate prince of covenant, compare AV RV); figurative, with death Isaiah 28:15, 18; with stones of the field Job 5:23.
2. constitution, ordinance, between monarch and subjects: David and Abner 2 Samuel 3:12, 13, 21; David and the elders of Israel 2 Samuel 5:3 = 1 Chronicles 11:3; Zedekiah and his people Jeremiah 34:8-18; hostile prince and Israelites Daniel 9:27.
3. agreement, pledge: Jehoiada and captains 2 Kings 11:4 2 Chronicles 23:1; with onself Job 31:1; with Leviathan to be a servant Job 40:28; between man and man Hosea 10:4 compare בעל ברית Judges 8:33; Judges 9:4 = אל ברית [H1286 Judges 9:46].
4. alliance of friendship between David and Jonathan 1 Samuel 18:3; 1 Samuel 20:8; 1 Samuel 23:18 compare Psalm 55:21.
5. alliance of marriage Proverbs 2:17; Malachi 2:14. — In all cases כרת ברית is the technical phrase for making covenant except Jeremiah 34:10 באו בברית; Daniel 9:27 הגביר ברית לְ. Various prepositions are used, most often לְ Exodus 23:32 +, but also עִם Genesis 26:28 +, אֵת 2 Samuel 3:12 +, בֵּין 2 Chronicles 16:3.
II. between God and man.
1. alliance of friendship (|| H5475 סוֺד) Psalm 25:14.
2. covenant, as a divine constitution or ordinance with signs or pledges (see H226 אוֺת).
a. with Noah Genesis 9:9-17 (P) Isaiah 54:10; Jeremiah 33:20, 25; a divine promise that there would be no other deluge.
b. with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob Genesis 15:18 (J) Genesis 17:2-21 Exodus 2:24; Exodus 6:4, 5; Leviticus 26:42 (P) 2 Kings 13:23; 1 Chronicles 16:15 = Psalm 105:8; Psalm 105:10; Nehemiah 9:8; Jeremiah 34:18; a promise to multiply their seed, give them the land of Canaan, and make them a blessing to the nations.
c. with Israel at Sinai = Horeb, with a covenant sacrifice Exodus 19:5; Exodus 24:7, 8 (E) Exodus 34:10, 27, 28 (J) Exodus 31:16; Leviticus 2:13 (P) Leviticus 24:8; Leviticus 26:9, 15, 25, 44, 45 (H) Deuteronomy 4:13; renewed in plains of Moab Deuteronomy 28:69 [Deuteronomy 29:1]; with blessings and curses Deuteronomy 29:20; frequently referred to in other books 2 Chronicles 34:32; Psalm 25:10; Psalm 44:18; Psalm 50:5; Psalm 50:16; Psalm 74:20; Psalm 78:10; Psalm 78:37; Psalm 103:18; Psalm 106:45; Psalm 111:5; Psalm 111:9; Isaiah 56:4, 6; Jeremiah 1:2, 3, 6, 8, 10; Jeremiah 14:21; Jeremiah 22:9; Jeremiah 31:32; Ezekiel 16:8, 59, 60; Ezekiel 44:7; Daniel 9:4; Daniel 11:28, 30, 32; Hosea 6:7; Hosea 8:1; Zechariah 9:11; Zechariah 11:10; a divine constitution given to Israel with promises on condition of obedience and penalties for disobendience, in the form of tables of the covenant Deuteronomy 9:9, 11, 15, inscribed with the ten words, placed in (ׅי׳) ׅברית ׅארון the ark of the covenant Numbers 10:33 + 40 times (see H727 ארון; in 1 Samuel 4:3, 4 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 4:5 omits ברית after ארון Greek Version of the LXX We Dr); set forth in דברי הברית words of the covenant Exodus 34:28 (J) Deuteronomy 28:69; Deuteronomy 29:8; 2 Kings 23:3 (= 2 Chronicles 34:31) Jeremiah 11:2-8; written in ספר הברית the book of the covenant Exodus 24:7 (E compare Exodus 34:27 J) 2 Kings 23:2, 21 (compare 2 Chronicles 34:30).
d. with Phinehas Numbers 25:12, 13 (P), a constitution, establishing an everlasting priesthood in his line; compare ברית הכהנים Nehemiah 13:29 & ברית הלוי Malachi 2:4, 8.
e. with Joshua and Israel Joshua 24:25 (E), an ordinance or constitutional agreement to serve Yahweh only.
f. with David Psalm 89:4; Psalm 89:29; Psalm 89:34; Psalm 89:39; Psalm 132:12; Jeremiah 33:21 (compare 2 Samuel 7 = 1 Chronicles 17); a divine promise to the seed of David of an everlasting kingdom, the relation of sonship, and the superintendence of the temple (compare Psalms 2).
g. Jehoiada and the people 2 Kings 11:17 2 Chronicles 23:3, a constitutional agreement to be the people of Yahweh.
h. Hezekiah and the people 2 Chronicles 29:10, a constitutional agreement to reform the worship.
i. Josiah and the people 2 Kings 23:3, a constitutional agreement to obey the book of the covenant.
j. Ezra and the people Ezra 10:3, a constitutional agreement to put away foreign wives and observe the Law.
k. the prophetic covenant, a divine promise through a series of prophets to establish a new constitution ברית חדשׁה Jeremiah 31:31, with new institutions and precepts Isaiah 42:6; Isaiah 49:8; Isaiah 55:3; Isaiah 59:21; Isaiah 61:8; Jeremiah 31:31, 33; Jeremiah 32:40; Jeremiah 50:5; Ezekiel 16:60, 62; Ezekiel 20:37; Ezekiel 34:25; Ezekiel 37:26; Hosea 2:20. In Isa2 the Messianic servant is ברית עם Isaiah 42:6; Isaiah 49:8, compare מלאך הברית Malachi 3:1.
III. Phrases.
1. covenant making: כרת ברית Genesis 15:18; Exodus 34:10, 27 (J) Joshua 24:25 (E) Deuteronomy 5:2, 3; Deuteronomy 28:69; Deuteronomy 29:13; Deuteronomy 29:24; 1 Kings 5:26; 2 Kings 11:17; 2 Kings 17:35, 38; 2 Kings 23:3; 2 Chronicles 21:7; 23:3, 16; 29:10; 34:30; Ezra 10:3; Nehemiah 9:8; Psalm 50:5; Psalm 89:4; Isaiah 55:3; Isaiah 61:8; Jeremiah 11:10; Jeremiah 31:31, 32, 33; Jeremiah 32:40; Jeremiah 34:13; Ezekiel 34:25; Ezekiel 37:26; Hosea 2:20; הקים ברית establish a covenant Genesis 6:18; Genesis 9:9, 11, 17; Genesis 17:7, 19, 21; Exodus 6:4 (P) Ezekiel 16:60, 62, but confirm covenant Leviticus 26:9 (?; H) Deuteronomy 8:18; נתן ברית Genesis 17:2; Numbers 25:12 (P); שׂם ברית 2 Samuel 23:5 (poetry); עבר בברית Deuteronomy 29:11; בא בברית 2 Chronicles 15:12; Ezekiel 16:8; צוה ברית Psalm 111:9; נשׂא ברית על פי Psalm 50:16. (compare further on these DrJ Ph xi. 1882, 210 ff.)
2. covenant keeping: on the part of man שׁמר ברית 1 Kings 11:11; Nehemiah 1:5; Nehemiah 9:32; Psalm 78:10; Psalm 103:18; Psalm 132:12; Daniel 9:4, נצר ברית Deuteronomy 33:9; Psalm 25:10, מחזיקים בברית Isaiah 56:4, 6; on the part of God זכר ברית Genesis 9:15, 16; Exodus 2:24; Exodus 6:5 (all P), Leviticus 26:42 (3 times in verse) (H; on suffix compare Di Ges§ 128, 1 R b) Leviticus 26:45 (H) Psalm 105:8; Psalm 106:45; Psalm 111:5; 1 Chronicles 16:15; Ezekiel 16:15, 60. Thus we have נאמנת Psalm 89:29; ברית עולם Genesis 9:16; Genesis 17:7, 13, 18, 19; Exodus 31:16; Leviticus 24:8; Numbers 18:19; Numbers 25:13 (P) 2 Samuel 23:5 (poetry) 1 Chronicles 16:17 (= Psalm 105:10) Isaiah 24:5; Isaiah 55:3; Isaiah 61:8; Jeremiah 32:40; Jeremiah 50:5; Ezekiel 16:60; Ezekiel 37:26; ברית מלח Leviticus 2:13; 2 Chronicles 13:5; 21:7 (a covenant with sacrificial meal and salt; on covenant with salt in Arabia compare WeSkizzen iii. 124); ברית שׁלום Numbers 25:12 (P) Isaiah 54:10; Ezekiel 34:25; Ezekiel 37:26; הברית והחסד Deuteronomy 7:9, 12; 1 Kings 8:23 (= 2 Chronicles 6:14) Nehemiah 1:5; Nehemiah 9:32; Daniel 9:4; ברית קדשׁ Daniel 11:28, 30; מסרת הברית Ezekiel 20:37.
3. covenant violation: עבר ברית Deuteronomy 17:2; Joshua 7:11, 15; Joshua 23:16 (D) Judges 2:20; 2 Kings 18:12; Hosea 6:7; Hosea 8:1; הפר ברית Genesis 17:14; Leviticus 26:15, 44 (H) Deuteronomy 31:16, 20 (J) Judges 2:1; Isaiah 24:5 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 11:10; Jeremiah 14:21; Jeremiah 31:32; Jeremiah 33:20, 21; Ezekiel 16:59; Ezekiel 17:18, 19; Ezekiel 44:7; Zechariah 11:10; עזב ברית 1 Kings 19:10, 14; Jeremiah 22:9; Daniel 11:30; מאס ברית 2 Kings 17:15; נאר ברית Psalm 89:39; חלל ברית Psalm 89:34; Malachi 2:10; שׁקר בברית Psalm 44:18; שׁכח ברית Deuteronomy 4:23, 31; Jeremiah 50:5.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

6:18; 6:18; 9:9; 9:9; 9:10; 9:11; 9:11; 9:12; 9:13; 9:13; 9:14; 9:15; 9:15; 9:16; 9:16; 9:16; 9:17; 9:17; 14:13; 15:18; 15:18; 17:2; 17:2; 17:3; 17:4; 17:5; 17:6; 17:7; 17:7; 17:7; 17:8; 17:9; 17:10; 17:11; 17:12; 17:13; 17:13; 17:14; 17:14; 17:15; 17:16; 17:17; 17:18; 17:18; 17:19; 17:19; 17:19; 17:20; 17:21; 17:21; 21:27; 21:32; 26:28; 26:28; 31:44

Exodus

2:24; 2:24; 2:24; 6:4; 6:4; 6:5; 6:5; 19:5; 23:32; 23:32; 24:7; 24:7; 24:8; 31:16; 31:16; 34:10; 34:10; 34:12; 34:15; 34:27; 34:27; 34:27; 34:28; 34:28

Leviticus

2:13; 2:13; 24:8; 24:8; 26:9; 26:9; 26:15; 26:15; 26:25; 26:42; 26:42; 26:44; 26:44; 26:45; 26:45

Numbers

10:33; 18:19; 25:12; 25:12; 25:12; 25:13; 25:13

Deuteronomy

4:13; 4:23; 4:31; 5:2; 5:3; 7:2; 7:9; 7:12; 8:18; 9:9; 9:11; 9:15; 17:2; 29:1; 29:8; 29:11; 29:13; 29:20; 29:24; 31:16; 31:20; 33:9; 33:9

Joshua

7:11; 7:15; 9:6; 9:7; 9:11; 9:15; 9:16; 23:16; 24:25; 24:25

Judges

2:1; 2:2; 2:20; 8:33; 9:4

1 Samuel

4:3; 4:4; 4:5; 11:1; 18:3; 20:8; 23:18

2 Samuel

3:12; 3:12; 3:13; 3:21; 5:3; 7; 23:5; 23:5

1 Kings

8:23; 11:11; 15:19; 19:10; 19:14; 20:34

2 Kings

11:4; 11:17; 11:17; 13:23; 17:15; 17:35; 17:38; 18:12; 23:2; 23:3; 23:3; 23:3; 23:21

1 Chronicles

11:3; 16:15; 16:15; 16:17; 17

2 Chronicles

6:14; 13:5; 15:12; 16:3; 16:3; 21:7; 21:7; 23:1; 23:3; 23:3; 23:16; 29:10; 29:10; 34:30; 34:30; 34:31; 34:32

Ezra

10:3; 10:3

Nehemiah

1:5; 1:5; 9:8; 9:8; 9:32; 9:32; 13:29

Job

5:23; 31:1

Psalms

2; 25:10; 25:10; 25:14; 44:18; 44:18; 44:18; 50:5; 50:5; 50:16; 50:16; 55:21; 74:20; 78:10; 78:10; 78:37; 83:6; 89:4; 89:4; 89:29; 89:29; 89:34; 89:34; 89:39; 89:39; 103:18; 103:18; 105:8; 105:8; 105:10; 105:10; 106:45; 106:45; 111:5; 111:5; 111:9; 111:9; 132:12; 132:12

Proverbs

2:17

Isaiah

24:5; 24:5; 28:15; 28:18; 28:18; 33:8; 42:6; 42:6; 49:8; 49:8; 54:10; 54:10; 55:3; 55:3; 55:3; 56:4; 56:4; 56:6; 56:6; 59:21; 61:8; 61:8; 61:8

Jeremiah

1:2; 1:3; 1:6; 1:8; 1:10; 11:2; 11:3; 11:4; 11:5; 11:6; 11:7; 11:8; 11:10; 11:10; 14:21; 14:21; 22:9; 22:9; 31:31; 31:31; 31:31; 31:32; 31:32; 31:32; 31:33; 31:33; 32:40; 32:40; 32:40; 33:20; 33:20; 33:21; 33:21; 33:25; 34:8; 34:9; 34:10; 34:10; 34:11; 34:12; 34:13; 34:13; 34:14; 34:15; 34:16; 34:17; 34:18; 34:18; 50:5; 50:5; 50:5

Ezekiel

16:8; 16:8; 16:15; 16:59; 16:59; 16:60; 16:60; 16:60; 16:60; 16:60; 16:61; 16:61; 16:62; 16:62; 17:13; 17:14; 17:15; 17:16; 17:17; 17:18; 17:18; 17:19; 17:19; 20:37; 20:37; 30:5; 34:25; 34:25; 34:25; 37:26; 37:26; 37:26; 37:26; 44:7; 44:7

Daniel

9:4; 9:4; 9:4; 9:27; 9:27; 11:22; 11:28; 11:28; 11:30; 11:30; 11:30; 11:32

Hosea

2:20; 2:20; 6:7; 6:7; 8:1; 8:1; 10:4; 12:2

Amos

1:9

Obadiah

1:7

Zechariah

9:11; 11:10; 11:10

Malachi

2:4; 2:8; 2:10; 2:14; 3:1

H1285

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Strong's Number H1285 matches the Hebrew בְּרִית (bᵊrîṯ),
which occurs 27 times in 24 verses in 'Gen' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:18 - But I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:9 - "Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your descendants after you,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:11 - I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:12 - And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations:

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:13 - I set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:15 - I will remember my covenant which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:16 - When the bow is in the clouds, I will look upon it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:17 - God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:13 - Then one who had escaped came, and told Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and of Aner; these were allies of Abram.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:18 - On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphra'tes,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:2 - And I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:4 - "Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:7 - And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:9 - And God said to Abraham, "As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:10 - This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your descendants after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:11 - You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:13 - both he that is born in your house and he that is bought with your money, shall be circumcised. So shall my covenant be in your flesh an everlasting covenant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:14 - Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:19 - God said, "No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:21 - But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this season next year."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:27 - So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abim'elech, and the two men made a covenant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:32 - So they made a covenant at Beer-sheba. Then Abim'elech and Phicol the commander of his army rose up and returned to the land of the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:28 - They said, "We see plainly that the LORD is with you; so we say, let there be an oath between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:44

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:44 - Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be a witness between you and me."
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