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.

Therefore we thought that it shall be, when they say this to us or to our generations in time to come, that we shall say, Look at the pattern of the altar of Jehovah which our fathers have made, though not for burnt offerings nor for sacrifices; but it is a witness between you and us.

And the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad called the altar, Witness, For it is a witness between us that Jehovah is God.

Now therefore, come, let us make a covenant, you and me, and let it be a witness between you and me.

And Jacob said to his brethren, Gather stones. And they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there on the heap.

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

If you afflict my daughters, or if you take other wives besides my daughters, although no man is with us; consider that God is witness between you and me.

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.

I call the heavens and the earth to witness against you this day, that you shall quickly die and perish from off the land which you are crossing over the Jordan to possess; you shall not prolong your days in it, but shall be destroyed to annihilation.

I call Heaven and earth to bear witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that both you and your seed may live;

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;

And Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer, saying, Thus far has Jehovah helped us.

Give ear, O Heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

Give heed, O heavens, and hear, O earth! For Jehovah has spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, but they have rebelled against Me.

For the stone shall cry out from the wall, and the beam shall answer it from the timbers.

But He answered and said to them, I tell you that if these should keep silent, the stones would immediately cry out.

For calamity from the Mighty God is a terror to me, and because of His majesty I could not do such things.

lest I be full and deny You and say, Who is Jehovah? Or lest I be poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.

But whoever denies Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father in Heaven.

If we endure, we shall also reign with Him. If we deny Him, He also will deny us.

If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself.

They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and reprobate with regard to every good work.

I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, and no one can shut it; for you have a little strength, have kept My Word, and have not denied My name.