¹⁷ And the men said to her, We will only be responsible for this oath which you have made us take,

³ And take an oath by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not get a wife for my son Isaac from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living;

⁴ But that you will go into my country and to my relations and get a wife there for my son Isaac.

⁵ And the servant said, If by chance the woman will not come with me into this land, am I to take your son back again to the land from which you came?

⁶ And Abraham said, Take care that you do not let my son go back to that land.

⁷ The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my birth, and made an oath to me, saying, To your seed I will give this land: he will send his angel before you and give you a wife for my son in that land.

⁸ And if the woman will not come with you, then you are free from this oath; only do not take my son back there.

⁷ You are not to make use of the name of the Lord your God for an evil purpose; whoever takes the Lord's name on his lips for an evil purpose will be judged a sinner by the Lord

¹¹ Do not take anyone's property or be false in act or word to another.

¹² And do not take an oath in my name falsely, putting shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord.

² And Moses said to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, This is the order of the Lord.

²⁰ But if you say anything about our business here, then we will be free from the oath you have made us take.

¹ In the days of David they were short of food for three years, year after year; and David went before the Lord for directions. And the Lord said, On Saul and on his family there is blood, because he put the Gibeonites to death.

² Then the king sent for the Gibeonites; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but were the last of the Amorites, to whom the children of Israel had given an oath; but Saul, in his passion for the children of Israel and Judah, had made an attempt on their lives:)

⁷ But the king did not give up Mephibosheth, the son of Saul's son Jonathan, because of the Lord's oath made between David and Jonathan, the son of Saul.