² And Abraham said to his chief servant, the manager of all his property, Come now, put your hand under my leg:

²⁹ And the time of his death came near, and he sent for his son Joseph and said to him, If now I am dear to you, put your hand under my leg and take an oath that you will not put me to rest in Egypt;

⁴ And having a high opinion of Joseph as his servant, he made him the overseer of his house and gave him control over all he had.

⁵ And from the time when he made him overseer and gave him control of all his property, the blessing of the Lord was with the Egyptian, because of Joseph; the blessing of the Lord was on all he had, in the house and in the field.

⁶ And he gave Joseph control of all his property, keeping no account of anything, but only the food which was put before him. Now Joseph was very beautiful in form and face.

² And Abram said, What will you give me? for I have no child and this Eliezer of Damascus will have all my wealth after me.

⁹ And the servant put his hand under Abraham's leg, and gave him his oath about this thing.

¹⁰ And the servant took ten of his master's camels, and all sorts of good things of his master's, and went to Mesopotamia, to the town of Nahor.

⁸ But he would not, and said to her, You see that my master keeps no account of what I do in his house, and has put all his property in my control;

⁹ So that no one has more authority in this house than I have; he has kept nothing back from me but you, because you are his wife; how then may I do this great wrong, sinning against God?

¹ Then he gave orders to the servant who was over his house, saying, Put as much food into the men's bags as will go into them, and put every man's money in the mouth of his bag;

²⁴ And all the chiefs and the men of war and all the sons of King David put themselves under the authority of Solomon the king.

¹⁷ Let rulers whose rule is good be honoured twice over, specially those whose work is preaching and teaching.