Now therefore, please swear to me by Yahweh, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal kindly with my father's house, and give me a true token;
"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.