The men said to her, Our life for yours, if you don't utter this our business; and it shall be, when Yahweh gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you.
"Swear unto me by Jehovah   ..." "The words here refer to an unwritten promised agreement, as distinguished from a written covenant,"[23] but it was of a kind that both parties accepted as absolutely valid and binding upon them both.