16 Bible Verses About Covenant Making

In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.

Thus they made a covenant at Beer–sheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?

And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;

And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee;

This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.

Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.

And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:

And I will make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:

And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

And Abraham said, I will swear.

And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.

Wherefore he called that place Beer–sheba; because there they sware both of them.

And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

And the Lord said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.