³ Live for a time in this land and ^(A)I will be with you and ^(B)bless you, for ^(C)to you and to your ^[a]descendants I will give all these lands, and I will establish ^(D)the oath which I swore to your father Abraham.

³¹ In the morning they got up early and ^[a](A)exchanged oaths; then Isaac sent them away, and they left him in peace.

¹⁵ And ^(A)Joshua made peace with them and made a covenant with them, to let them live; and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.

²⁰ This we will do to them, even let them live, so that wrath will not be on us because of the oath which we swore to them.”

^16 (A)For people swear an oath by ^[a]one greater than themselves, and with them ^(B)an oath serving as confirmation is an end of every dispute.

^17 [a]In the same way God, desiring even more to demonstrate to ^(A)the heirs of the promise ^[b](B)the fact that His purpose is unchangeable, ^[c]confirmed it with an oath,