Genesis 21:24
And Abraham said: I will swear.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Dixitque Abraham : Ego jurabo.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπεν Ἀβραάμ Ἐγὼ ὀμοῦμαι.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּ֨אמֶר֙ אַבְרָהָ֔ם אָנֹכִ֖י אִשָּׁבֵֽעַ
Haydock's commentary
I will swear. The matter was of sufficient importance. Abraham binds himself, but not his posterity, who by God's order fought against the descendants of this king.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.