On that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying: To your seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates;

And it came to pass at that time that Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, spoke to Abraham, saying, God is with you in all that you do.

And Abraham said, I will swear.

And Abimelech said, I do not know who has done this thing; you did not tell me, nor had I heard of it until today.

And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

And he said, You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that they may be my witness that I have dug this well.

Thus they made a covenant at Beer-sheba. So Abimelech rose with Phicol, the commander of his army, and they returned to the land of the Philistines.

And they said, We have certainly seen that Jehovah is with you. So we said, Let there now be an oath between us, between you and us; and let us make a covenant with you,

And he made them a feast, and they ate and drank.

And you shall not only show me the kindness of Jehovah while I still live, that I not die;

So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, Let Jehovah require it at the hand of David's enemies.

And Laban said, This heap is a witness between you and me this day. Therefore its name was called Galeed;

This heap is a witness, and this pillar is a testimony, that I will not pass beyond this heap to you, and you will not pass beyond this heap and this pillar to me, for evil.

And he said, You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that they may be my witness that I have dug this well.

Now therefore, write down this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel; put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for Me against the children of Israel.

And it shall be, when many evils and troubles find them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it will not be forgotten in the mouths of their seed, for I know the imagination of their works even today, even before I bring them into the land of which I have sworn to give to them.

Take this Book of the Law, and put it inside the ark of the covenant of Jehovah your God, to be there as a witness against you;

but that it may be a witness between you and us and our generations after us, that we may perform the service of Jehovah before Him with our burnt offerings, with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your sons may not say to our sons in time to come, You have no portion in Jehovah.

So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and established for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

And Joshua said to all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness to us, for it has heard all the words of Jehovah which He has spoken to us. It shall therefore be a witness to you, lest you deny your God.