Genesis 31:50
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.
Genesis 31:50 in other translations
| BSB | 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.” |
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| WEB | 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.” |
| ASV | 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. |
| YLT | 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.' |
| DARBY | 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! |
| BBE | 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. |
| 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. |
What does Genesis 31:50 mean?
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 31:43-55
Laban could neither justify himself nor condemn Jacob, therefore desires to hear no more of that matter. He is not willing to own himself in fault, as he ought to have done. But he proposes a covenant of friendship between them, to which Jacob readily agrees. A heap of stones was raised, to keep up the memory of the event, writing being then not known or little used. A sacrifice of peace offerings was offered. Peace…
Genesis 31:50 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Genesis 31:50
- Jeremiah 42:5
Then they said to Jeremiah, The Lord be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not even according to all things for the which the Lord thy God shall send thee to us.
- Jeremiah 29:23
Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours’ wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the Lord.
- Micah 1:2
Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord God be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
- Judges 11:10
And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, The Lord be witness between us, if we do not so according to thy words.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:5
For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:
- Malachi 3:5
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.
- Matthew 19:5-6
And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
- Malachi 2:14
Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
- 1 Samuel 12:5
And he said unto them, The Lord is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found ought in my hand. And they answered, He is witness.
- Leviticus 18:18
Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.
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Context
- Genesis 31:49
And Mizpah; for he said, The Lord watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.
- Genesis 31:50
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.
- Genesis 31:51
And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee;
Genesis 31:50 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Si afligieres mis hijas, ó si tomares otras mujeres además de mis hijas, nadie está con nosotros; mira, Dios es testigo entre mí y entre ti. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Si tu maltraites mes filles, et si tu prends des femmes outre mes filles (il n’y a aucun homme avec nous), regarde, Dieu est témoin entre moi et toi. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wenn du meine Töchter bedrücken, und wenn du noch Weiber nehmen solltest zu meinen Töchtern kein Mensch ist bei uns; siehe, Gott ist Zeuge zwischen mir und dir. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | si afflixeris filias meas, et si introduxeris alias uxores super eas: nullus sermonis nostri testis est absque Deo, qui præsens respicit. |