Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my father's house, and give me a true token:
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Gill's Exposition
Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the Lord,.... Which being a religious action, and done by men that feared the Lord, she knew it would be binding upon them: the Targum is,"swear to me by…
Barnes' Notes
A true token - literally, “a sign” or “pledge of truth; “something to bind them to keep their promise faithfully. The “token” was the oath which the spies take Jos 2:14.
Adam Clarke
Swear unto me by the Lord - This is a farther proof that this woman had received considerable instruction in the Jewish faith; she acknowledged the true God by his essential character Jehovah; and…
The matter is here settled between Rahab and the spies respecting the service she was now to do for them, and the favour they were afterwards to show to her. She secures them on condition that they…
Cambridge Bible
a true token "a verrey tokne," Wyclif; i.e. a token of truth, a sign; comp. Exo 3:12, "And this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee;" 1Sa 2:34; Isa 7:11; Luk 2:12.
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