Nave’s Topical Bible
Contracts
34 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- Between Abraham and Abimelech, concerning wells of water
- Violated
- First contract between Laban and Jacob for Laban's daughter
- Violated
- Second contract
- Violated
- For cattle
See FRAUD
- Between Solomon and Hiram
- Dissolved
- By mutual consent
- By blotting out
- Modes of ratifying
- By giving presents
- By consummating in the presence of the public at the gate of The city
- By erecting a heap of stones
- By oaths
Genesis 26:3,31; Joshua 9:15,20; 1 Chronicles 16:16; Hebrews 6:16-17
- By joining hands
Proverbs 6:1; Proverbs 11:21; Proverbs 17:18; Proverbs 22:26; Ezekiel 17:18
- With salt
- By taking off the shoe
- Written instrument
See COVENANTS
See VOWS
- SCRIPTURES ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE BINDING FORCE OF
Exodus 21:2-6; Leviticus 6:1-2,4-7; Joshua 9:3-9,15-16,18-27; Matthew 20:1-16; Galatians 3:15
Bible verses about “Contracts”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Genesis 21:25And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.
- Genesis 21:26And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to day.
- Genesis 21:27And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.
- Genesis 21:28And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
- Genesis 21:29And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?
- Genesis 21:30And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.
- Genesis 21:31Wherefore he called that place Beer–sheba; because there they sware both of them.
- Genesis 21:32Thus they made a covenant at Beer–sheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
- Genesis 26:15For all the wells which his father’s servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.
- Genesis 29:15And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be?
- Genesis 29:16And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
- Genesis 29:17Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured.
- Genesis 29:18And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
- Genesis 29:19And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.
- Genesis 29:20And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
- Genesis 29:27Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
- Genesis 29:28And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
- Genesis 29:29And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
- Genesis 29:30And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
- Genesis 29:23And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.
- Genesis 29:24And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for an handmaid.
- Genesis 29:25And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?
- Genesis 29:26And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.
- Genesis 30:28And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.
- Genesis 30:29And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me.
- Genesis 30:30For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the Lord hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?
- Genesis 30:31And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock:
- Genesis 30:32I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.
- Genesis 30:33So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
- Genesis 30:34And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.
- Genesis 30:37And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
- Genesis 30:38And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.
- Genesis 30:39And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
- Genesis 30:40And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban’s cattle.
- Genesis 30:41And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.
- Genesis 30:42But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.
- Genesis 30:43And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.
- Genesis 31:7And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
- Genesis 30:27And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that the Lord hath blessed me for thy sake.
- 1 Kings 5:9My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive them: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.