Genesis 24:8
clear.Nu 30:5,8; Jos 2:17-20; 9:20; Joh 8:32only.4,5,6; Ac 7:2Deuteronomy 29:12
thou shouldest.5:2,3; Ex 19:5,6; Jos 24:25; 2Ki 11:17; 2Ch 15:12-15enter. Heb. pass.This is an allusion to the solemn ceremony used by several ancient nations, when they entered into a covenant with each other. The victims, slain as a sacrifice on this occasion, were divided, and and parts laid asunder: the contracting parties then passed between them, imprecating, as a curse on those who violated the sacred compact, that they might in like manner be cut asunder. (Ge 15:10.) St. Cyril, in his work against Julian, shows that passing between the divided parts of a victim was used also among the Chaldeans and other people. into his oath.14; 2Ch 15:12-15; Ne 10:28,29
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