Genesis 26:31

and rise early in the morning, and swear to one another, and Isaac sends them away, and they go from him in peace.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

In Context

30And he makes a banquet for them, and they eat and drink,

32And it comes to pass during that day that Isaac’s servants come and declare to him concerning the circumstances of the well which they have dug, and say to him, “We have found water”;

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Cross References

Genesis 14:22and Abram says to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to YHWH, God Most High, possessing the heavens and earth—

Genesis 21:14And Abraham rises early in the morning, and takes bread, and a bottle of water, and gives to Hagar (placing [it] on her shoulder), also the boy, and sends her out; and she goes on, and goes astray in the wilderness of Beer-Sheba;

Genesis 21:27And Abraham takes sheep and oxen, and gives to Abimelech, and they make, both of them, a covenant;

Genesis 22:3And Abraham rises early in the morning, and saddles his donkey, and takes two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac, and he cleaves the wood of the burnt-offering, and rises and goes to the place of which God has spoken to him.

Genesis 31:44And now, come, let us make a covenant, I and you, and it has been for a witness between me and you.”

1 Samuel 14:24And the men of Israel have been distressed on that day, and Saul adjures the people, saying, “Cursed [is] the man who eats food until the evening, and I have been avenged of my enemies”; and none of the people have tasted food.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 26:27-34

Isaac's Covenant with Abimelech. ( b. c. 1760.) 26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army. 27 And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you? 28 And they said, We saw certainly that the Lord was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee; 29 That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as… Read the whole commentary →

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