“And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to day.”
Abimelech says he does not know who has done this, that Abraham did not tell him, and that he heard about it only today. The denial is accepted as genuine. The willingness of both parties to take each other's word within the framework of the treaty oath is the practical expression of covenant trust. The application: the trust created by an oath is the trust in which the other person's word becomes credible.
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