“If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.”
If you mistreat my daughters or if you take any wives besides my daughters, even though no one is with us, remember that God is a witness between you and me. The specific prohibitions are Laban's version of the covenant terms. The appeal to God as witness when no human is watching is the acknowledgment that covenant faithfulness operates under divine observation. The application: the covenant that is kept when no one is watching is the covenant kept before the divine witness who always watches.
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