Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
If thou shalt afflict my daughters, and if thou shalt take wives to my daughters, no man is with us, seeing God a witness between me and between thee.
New American Standard Bible
If you mistreat my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no man is with us, see,
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.
Holman Bible
If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives, though no one is with us, understand that God will be a witness between you and me.”
International Standard Version
If you mistreat my daughters or if you take other wives besides them, though no one is watching us, keep in mind that God stands as a witness between you and me."
A Conservative Version
if thou will afflict my daughters, and if thou will take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us, see, God is witness between me and thee.
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.
Amplified
If you should mistreat (humiliate, oppress) my daughters, or if you should take other wives besides my daughters, although no one is with us [as a witness], see and remember, God is witness between you and me.”
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.
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!
King James 2000
If you shall afflict my daughters, or if you shall take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness between me and you.
Lexham Expanded Bible
If you mistreat my daughters, and if you take wives besides my daughters, [when] there is no man with us, see--God [is] a witness between me and you."
Modern King James verseion
If you shall not afflict my daughters, or if you shall take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us. See! God is witness between you and me.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
that thou shalt not vex my daughters neither shalt take other wives unto them. Here is no man with us: behold, God is witness betwixt thee and me."
NET Bible
If you mistreat my daughters or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no one else is with us, realize that God is witness to your actions."
New Heart English Bible
If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you."
The Emphasized Bible
If thou oppress my daughters, or if thou take wives besides my daughters, - there may be no man with us - see! God, be witness betwixt me, and thee!
Webster
If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives besides 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 besides my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you."
Youngs 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.'
Themes
Contracts » By erecting a heap of stones
Covenant » Of men with men » Ratified » By a monument
Covenant » Instances of » Jacob and laban
Covenants » Designed for » Mutual protection
Covenants » God often called to witness
Laban » Pursues jacob, overtakes him at mount gilead, and covenants with him
Topics
Interlinear
`anah
Bath
בּת
Bath
daughter, town, village, owl , first, apple, branches, children, company, daughter +, eye, old
Usage: 587
Laqach
Ra'ah
'elohiym
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 31:50
Verse Info
Context Readings
Jacob Flees From Laban
49 And watchtower: for he said Jehovah will watch between me and between thee when we shall be concealed a man from his Mend. 50 If thou shalt afflict my daughters, and if thou shalt take wives to my daughters, no man is with us, seeing God a witness between me and between thee. 51 And Laban will say to Jacob, Behold this heap; and behold the pillar which I cast between me and between thee.
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 42:5
And they said to Jeremiah, Jehovah will be with us for a witness of truth and faithful, if not according to all the words which Jehovah thy God will send thee to us, thus will we do.
Jeremiah 29:23
Because they did folly in Israel, and they will commit adultery with their neighbors' wives, and they will speak the word of a lie in my name, which I commanded them not; and I know, and a witness, says Jehovah.
Judges 11:10
And the old men of Gilead will say to Jephthah, Jehovah shall be hearing between us, if we did not thus to thee according to thy word.
1 Samuel 12:5
And he will say to them, Jehovah the witness against you, and his Messiah the witness this day that ye found nothing in my hand. And he will say, A witness.
Micah 1:2
Hear, all ye peoples; attend, O earth, and its fulness, and the Lord Jehovah shall be among you for a witness, Jehovah from his holy temple.
Leviticus 18:18
And a wife to her sister thou shalt not take to press to uncover her nakedness with her, in her living.
Malachi 2:14
And ye said, For what? For that Jehovah testified between thee and between the wife of thy youth, which thou didst deal faithlessly against her, and she thy companion and the wife of thy covenant
Malachi 3:5
And I came near to you for judgment: and I was a swift witness against those practicing magic, and against those committing adultery, and against those swearing to falsehood, and against those oppressing the hire of the hireling, the widow and the orphan, and those turning aside the stranger, and they feared not me, said Jehovah of armies.
Matthew 19:5-6
And said, For this shall a man leave father and mother, and be joined to his wife: and they two shall be one flesh?
1 Thessalonians 2:5
For neither once in word were we flatterers, as ye know, neither in a pretext of covetousness; God the witness: