²⁷ And Abraham taketh sheep and oxen, and giveth to Abimelech, and they make, both of them, a covenant;

²² and Abram saith unto the king of Sodom, `I have lifted up my hand unto Jehovah, God Most High, possessing heaven and earth --

²³ from a thread even unto a shoe-latchet I take not of anything which thou hast, that thou say not, I -- I have made Abram rich;

³¹ unintelligent, faithless, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful;

¹³ And he taketh of the seed of the kingdom, And maketh with him a covenant, And bringeth him in to an oath, And the mighty of the land he hath taken,

⁸ And the noble counselled noble things, And he for noble things riseth up.

¹⁴ A gift in secret pacifieth anger, And a bribe in the bosom strong fury.

²⁴ A man with friends `is' to show himself friendly, And there is a lover adhering more than a brother!

¹⁶ The gift of a man maketh room for him, And before the great it leadeth him.

⁸ A stone of grace `is' the bribe in the eyes of its possessors, Whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.

³ And Jonathan maketh -- also David -- a covenant, because he loveth him as his own soul,

⁴⁴ and now, come, let us make a covenant, I and thou, and it hath been for a witness between me and thee.'

²⁸ And they say, `We have certainly seen that Jehovah hath been with thee, and we say, `Let there be, we pray thee, an oath between us, between us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;

²⁹ do not evil with us, as we have not touched thee, and as we have only done good with thee, and send thee away in peace; thou `art' now blessed of Jehovah.'

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

³¹ and rise early in the morning, and swear one to another, and Isaac sendeth them away, and they go from him in peace.

¹⁵ Brethren, as a man I say `it', even of man a confirmed covenant no one doth make void or doth add to,