Bible Verses About Contracts

and Joshua maketh with them peace, and maketh with them a covenant, to keep them alive; and swear to them do the princes of the company.

And it cometh to pass, at the end of three days after that they have made with them a covenant, that they hear that they are their neighbours--that in their midst they are dwelling.

and the sons of Israel have not smitten them, for sworn to them have the princes of the company by Jehovah God of Israel, and all the company murmur against the princes.

And all the princes say unto all the company, `We--we have sworn to them by Jehovah, God of Israel; and now, we are not able to come against them;

this we do to them, and have kept them alive, and wrath is not upon us, because of the oath which we have sworn to them.'

And the princes say unto them, `They live, and are hewers of wood and drawers of water for all the company, as the princes spake to them.'

And Joshua calleth for them, and speaketh unto them, saying, `Why have ye deceived us, saying, We are very far from you, and ye in our midst dwelling?

and now, cursed are ye, and none of you is cut off from being a servant, even hewers of wood and drawers of water, for the house of my God.'

And they answer Joshua and say, `Because it was certainly declared to thy servants, that Jehovah thy God commanded Moses His servant to give to you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you; and we fear greatly for ourselves because of you, and we do this thing;

and now, lo, we are in thy hand, as it is good, and as it is right in thine eyes to do to us--do.'

And he doth to them so, and delivereth them from the hand of the sons of Israel, and they have not slain them;

and Joshua maketh them on that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the company, and for the altar of Jehovah, unto this day, at the place which He doth choose.

my servants bring down from Lebanon to the sea, and I make them floats in the sea unto the place that thou sendest unto me, and I have spread them out there; and thou dost take them up, and thou dost execute my desire, to give the food of my house.'

And Hiram is giving to Solomon cedar-trees, and fir-trees, all his desire,

and Solomon hath given to Hiram twenty thousand cors of wheat, food for his house, and twenty cors of beaten oil; thus doth Solomon give to Hiram year by year.

`For the reign of the heavens is like to a man, a householder, who went forth with the morning to hire workmen for his vineyard,

and having agreed with the workmen for a denary a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

`And having gone forth about the third hour, he saw others standing in the market-place idle,

and to these he said, Go ye--also ye--to the vineyard, and whatever may be righteous I will give you;

and they went away. `Again, having gone forth about the sixth and the ninth hour, he did in like manner.

And about the eleventh hour, having gone forth, he found others standing idle, and saith to them, Why here have ye stood all the day idle?

they say to him, Because no one did hire us; he saith to them, Go ye--ye also--to the vineyard, and whatever may be righteous ye shall receive.

`And evening having come, the lord of the vineyard saith to his steward, Call the workmen, and pay them the reward, having begun from the last--unto the first.

And they of about the eleventh hour having come, did receive each a denary.

`And the first having come, did suppose that they shall receive more, and they received, they also, each a denary,