Genesis 31:50
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“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.””
A short, plain-language explanation of Genesis 31:50 goes here — the kind of answer a reader (or an AI assistant) can quote in one breath. Original meaning coming soon.
“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 · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“if thou afflict my daughters, or take wives beside my daughters--there is no man with us--see, God <FI>is<Fi> witness between me and thee.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Genesis 31:50 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 18:18You must not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is still alive.
- Judges 11:10And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “The LORD is our witness if we do not do as you say.”
- 1 Samuel 12:5Samuel 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.
- Jeremiah 29:23For 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 LORD.”
- Jeremiah 42:5Then 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.
- Micah 1:2Hear, 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.
- Malachi 2:14Yet 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.
- Malachi 3:5“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
- Matthew 19:5and 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’?
- 1 Thessalonians 2:5As you know, we never used words of flattery or any pretext for greed. God is our witness!
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