I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you.

Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and the other half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

‘If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their forefathers, in their unfaithfulness which they committed against Me, and also in their acting with hostility against Me—

Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look at the stubbornness of this people or at their wickedness or their sin.

“Truly is not my house so with God?
For He has made an everlasting covenant with me,
Ordered in all things, and secured;
For all my salvation and all my desire,
Will He not indeed make it grow?

“Thus says the Lord, ‘If you can break My covenant for the day and My covenant for the night, so that day and night will not be at their appointed time,

To show mercy toward our fathers,

And to remember His holy covenant,

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
After those days, says the Lord:

I will put My laws into their minds,

And I will write them

on their hearts.

And I will be their God,
And they shall be My people.

The dark

You shall not behave thus toward the Lord your God, for every abominable act which the Lord hates they have done for their gods; for they even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips,

So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

Habitations

O Lord, lead me in Your righteousness because of my foes;
Make Your way straight before me.

“Simeon and Levi are brothers;
Their swords are implements of violence.

General references

The soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim away and escape;