Genesis 24:41
אָז תִּנָּקֶה מֵ אָלָתִי כִּי תָבֹוא אֶל מִשְׁפַּחְתִּי וְ אִם לֹא יִתְּנוּ לָךְ וְ הָיִיתָ נָקִי מֵ אָלָתִי
At that time you are clean from my curse,816 for you are coming in toward my family, and if they are not giving to-yourself. And you have become clean from my curse.
| 816 | Curse Strong’s #423, alah. a curse. “Oath” does not do this word justice. The context here obviously shows that this is something not clean. The root verb is alah (#422) to swear, curse. The point of an “oath” is to bind someone, regardless. “Yahweh, your elohe, the whole of the Curses [alah] of These ones over your enemies and over those who hate thee…” Deut. 30:7 literal “Upon thus a curse [alah] has eaten the earth…” Isaiah 24:6 literal “And the Priest has written the Curses [alah] of These ones in the Book, and he has wiped out toward dual-waters of the Bitterness.” Numbers 5:23 literal |