Torrey's Topical Textbook
Genesis 24:2,9And Abraham said to his oldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray you, your hand under my thigh:
Torrey's Topical TextbookGenesis 47:29
And the time drew near that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, If now I have found grace in your sight, put, I pray you, your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray you, in Egypt:
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The Iranian Conquest
... Achaemenids worshipped Ahura-mazda alone, "placing the other ... offer us sacrifices
with a hand filled with ... and perfumes, but these were often accompanied, as in ...
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The Last Days of the Old Eastern World
... wanted, and on the strength of their oaths she at ... he returned to Susa in the autumn,
accompanied by the ... were restored to order, and, as was often customary in ...
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The Medes and the Second Chaldaean Empire
... years, allowed their critical faculties, and often their imagination ... of them furnish
us at first-hand with the ... place in the same region, under Tiglath-pileser ...
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Resources
What does the Bible say about keeping your vows / oaths? | GotQuestions.orgWhy did oaths involve putting a hand under someone's thigh (Genesis 24:9)? | GotQuestions.orgWhat does it mean to let your yes be yes and your no be no? | GotQuestions.orgOaths: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.comBible Concordance •
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