Genesis 31:50 “If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives, although no one is w…”

Genesis 31:50

If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives, although no one is with us, remember that God is a witness between you and me.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.

World English Bible

If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives in addition to my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you.”

American Standard Version

If thou shalt afflict my daughters, and if thou shalt take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.

Geneva Bible 1599

If thou shalt vexe my daughters, or shalt take wiues beside my daughters: there is no man with vs, beholde, God is witnesse betweene me and thee.

Darby Translation

if thou shouldest afflict my daughters, or if thou shouldest take wives besides my daughters, — no man is with us; see, God is witness between me and thee!

Young's Literal Translation

if thou afflict my daughters, or take wives beside my daughters — there is no man with us — see, God [is] witness between me and thee.'

Bible in Basic English

If you are cruel to my daughters, or if you take other wives in addition to my daughters, then though no man is there to see, God will be the witness between us.

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Cross references

“afflict”

Leviticus 18:18 Matthew 19:5 Matthew 19:6

Leviticus 18:18 · BSB

You must not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is still alive.

Matthew 19:5 · BSB

and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’ ?

Matthew 19:6 · BSB

So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”

“God”

Jeremiah 42:5 Jeremiah 29:23 Judges 11:10 Micah 1:2 1 Samuel 12:5 Malachi 2:14

Jeremiah 42:5 · BSB

Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the LORD be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act upon every word that the LORD your God sends you to tell us.

Jeremiah 29:23 · BSB

For they have committed an outrage in Israel by committing adultery with the wives of their neighbors and speaking lies in My name, which I did not command them to do. I am He who knows, and I am a witness, declares the…

Judges 11:10 · BSB

And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “The LORD is our witness if we do not do as you say.”

Micah 1:2 · BSB

Hear, O peoples, all of you; listen, O earth, and everyone in it! May the Lord GOD bear witness against you, the Lord from His holy temple.

1 Samuel 12:5 · BSB

Samuel said to them, “The LORD is a witness against you, and His anointed is a witness today, that you have not found anything in my hand.” “He is a witness,” they replied.

Malachi 2:14 · BSB

Yet you ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have broken faith, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

49It was also called Mizpah, because Laban said, “May the LORD keep watch between you and me when we are absent from each other.

51Laban also said to Jacob, “Here is the mound, and here is the pillar I have set up between you and me.

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