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Covenants: Designed For: Mutual Protection Genesis 26:28, 29

“We can plainly see that the LORD has been with you,” they replied. “We recommend that there should now be an oath between us and you. Let us make a covenant with you / that you will not harm us, just as we have not harmed you but have done only good to you, sending you on your way in peace. And now you are blessed by the LORD.”

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Covenants: Designed For: Mutual Protection Genesis 31:50–52

If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives, although no one is with us, remember that God is a witness between you and me.” / Laban also said to Jacob, “Here is the mound, and here is the pillar I have set up between you and me. / This mound is a witness, and this pillar is a witness, that I will not go past this mound to harm you, and you will not go past this mound and pillar to harm me.

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