Genesis 31:53
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
53 May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor[a] judge between us.” So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac,(A)
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 31.53 Heb mss Gk: MT adds the God of their father
Genesis 31:42
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
42 If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear[a] of Isaac, had not been on my side, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God saw my affliction and the labor of my hands and rebuked you last night.”(A)
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 31.42 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Genesis 16:5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
5 Then Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my slave to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the Lord judge between you and me!”(A)
Read full chapter
Joshua 24:2
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 And Joshua said to all the people, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Long ago your ancestors—Terah and his sons Abraham and Nahor—lived beyond the Euphrates and served other gods.(A)
Read full chapter
Exodus 3:6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
6 He said further, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.(A)
Read full chapter
Genesis 11:24-29
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
24 When Nahor had lived twenty-nine years, he became the father of Terah, 25 and Nahor lived after the birth of Terah one hundred nineteen years and had other sons and daughters.
26 When Terah had lived seventy years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Descendants of Terah
27 Now these are the descendants of Terah. Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran was the father of Lot. 28 Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans. 29 Abram and Nahor took wives; the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah. She was the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah.
Read full chapter
Deuteronomy 6:13
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
13 The Lord your God you shall fear, him you shall serve, and by his name alone you shall swear.(A)
Read full chapter
Genesis 28:13
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
13 And the Lord stood beside him[a] and said, “I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring,(A)
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 28.13 Or stood above it
Genesis 26:28-31
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
28 They said, “We see plainly that the Lord has been with you, so we say, let there be an oath between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you(A) 29 so that you will do us no harm, just as we have not touched you and have done to you nothing but good and have sent you away in peace. You are now the blessed of the Lord.” 30 So he made them a feast, and they ate and drank. 31 In the morning they rose early and exchanged oaths, and Isaac set them on their way, and they departed from him in peace.(B)
Read full chapter
Genesis 24:3-4
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
3 and I will make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live,(A) 4 but will go to my country and to my kindred and get a wife for my son Isaac.”(B)
Read full chapter
Genesis 22:20-24
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
The Children of Nahor
20 Now after these things it was told Abraham, “Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor: 21 Uz the firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram, 22 Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.” 23 Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.(A) 24 Moreover, his concubine, whose name was Reumah, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
Read full chapter
Genesis 17:7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
7 I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.(A)
Read full chapter
Genesis 14:22
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
22 But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have sworn to God[a] Most High,[b] maker of heaven and earth,(A)
Read full chapter
Genesis 11:31
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
31 Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot son of Haran and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there.(A)
Read full chapter
Genesis 21:23-24
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
23 now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my offspring or with my posterity, but as I have dealt loyally with you, you will deal with me and with the land where you have resided as an alien.” 24 And Abraham said, “I swear it.”
Read full chapterNew Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.