covenants
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35And I will not profane my covenant, and I will not make void that which proceeds from my lips.
8He has remembered his covenant for all ages: the word that he entrusted to a thousand generations, 9which he assigned to Abraham, and his oath to Isaac. 10And he stationed the same for Jacob with a precept, and for Israel with an eternal testament, 11saying: To you, I will give the land of Canaan, the allotment of your inheritance.
10For the mountains will be moved, and the hills will tremble. But my mercy will not depart from you, and the covenant of my peace will not be shaken, said the Lord, who has compassion on you.
59For thus says the Lord God: “I will act toward you, just as you have despised the oath, so that you would make void the covenant.
3Then David and Jonathan formed a pact. For he loved him like his own soul.
15Brothers (I speak according to man), if a man’s testament has been confirmed, no one would reject it or add to it.
17In this matter, God, wanting to reveal more thoroughly the immutability of his counsel to the heirs of the promise, interposed an oath,
4And you will know that I sent you this commandment, so that my covenant might be with Levi, says the Lord of hosts.
1Then the Lord said to Abram: “Depart from your land, and from your kindred, and from your father’s house, and come into the land that I will show you. 2And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and magnify your name, and you will be blessed. 3I will bless those who bless you, and curse those who curse you, and in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”
20Then Noah built an altar to the Lord. And, taking from each of the cattle and birds that were clean, he offered holocausts upon the altar. 21And the Lord smelled the sweet odor and said: “I will no longer curse the earth because of man. For the feelings and thoughts of the heart of man are prone to evil from his youth. Therefore, I will no longer pierce every living soul as I have done. 22All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, will not cease.”
20You will give the truth to Jacob, mercy to Abraham, which you swore to our fathers from the ancient days.