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But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be free from this oath of mine; only you must not take my son back there.”

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17 The men said to her, “We will be released from this oath that you have made us swear to you(A) 18 if we invade the land and you do not tie this crimson cord in the window through which you let us down and you do not gather into your house your father and mother, your brothers, and all your family.(B) 19 If any of you go out of the doors of your house into the street, they shall be responsible for their own death, and we shall be innocent, but if a hand is laid upon any who are with you in the house, we shall bear the responsibility for their death.(C) 20 But if you tell this business of ours, then we shall be released from this oath that you made us swear to you.”

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But if, at the time that her husband hears of it, he overrules her, then he shall nullify the vow by which she was obligated or the thoughtless utterance of her lips by which she bound herself, and the Lord will forgive her.(A)

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But if her father overrules her at the time that he hears of it, no vow of hers and no pledge by which she has bound herself shall stand, and the Lord will forgive her because her father overruled her.(A)

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And Stephen replied:

“Brothers[a] and fathers, listen to me. The God of glory appeared to our ancestor Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 7.2 Gk Men, brothers

32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”(A)

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20 This is what we will do to them: we will let them live, so that wrath may not come upon us, because of the oath that we swore to them.”

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but will go to my country and to my kindred and get a wife for my son Isaac.”(A) The servant said to him, “Perhaps the woman may not be willing to follow me to this land; must I then take your son back to the land from which you came?” Abraham said to him, “See to it that you do not take my son back there.

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