KJV King James Version
If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take [other] wives beside my daughters, no man [is] with us; see, God [is] witness betwixt me and thee.
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Genesis 31:50
If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take [other] wives beside my daughters, no man [is] with us; see, God [is] witness betwixt me and thee.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
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.”
WEB World English Bible
If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you.”
ASV American Standard Version
If thou shalt afflict my daughters, and if thou shalt take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
if thou afflict my daughters, or take wives beside my daughters—there is no man with us—see, God is witness between me and thee.’
Surrounding context — Genesis 31
47 And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.
48 And Laban said, This heap [is] a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
49 And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.
50 If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take [other] wives beside my daughters, no man [is] with us; see, God [is] witness betwixt me and thee.
51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold [this] pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee;
52 This heap [be] witness, and [this] pillar [be] witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.
53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
אִם־H518 · imifתְּעַנֶּ֣הH6031 · a.nahbe occupiedאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]בְּנֹתַ֗יH1323 · batdaughterוְאִם־H518 · imifתִּקַּ֤חH3947 · la.qachto take: takeנָשִׁים֙H802 · ish.shahwomanעַל־H5921 · aluponבְּנֹתַ֔יH1323 · batdaughterאֵ֥יןH369 · a.yinnothingאִ֖ישׁH376 · ishmanעִמָּ֑נוּH5973 · imwithרְאֵ֕הH7200 · ra.ahto see: seeאֱלֹהִ֥יםH430 · e.lo.himGodעֵ֖דH5707 · edwitnessבֵּינִ֥יH996 · ba.yinbetweenוּבֵינֶֽךָ׃H996 · ba.yinbetween
Cross-references
Jeremiah 42:5Then they said to Jeremiah, The LORD be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not even according to all things for the which the LORD thy God shall send thee to us.Jeremiah 29:23Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours’ wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and [am] a witness, saith the LORD.Micah 1:2Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.Judges 11:10And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, The LORD be witness between us, if we do not so according to thy words.Malachi 3:5And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in [his] wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger [from his right], and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.1 Samuel 12:5And he said unto them, The LORD [is] witness against you, and his anointed [is] witness this day, that ye have not found ought in my hand. And they answered, [He is] witness.Malachi 2:14Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet [is] she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.Leviticus 18:18Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex [her], to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life [time].1 Thessalonians 2:5For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God [is] witness:Matthew 19:5-6And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
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