Endnote 2 – “Put Your Hand Under My Thigh”—The Patriarchal Oath

Two of these texts have been translated by Finkelstein in J. B. Pritchard (ed.), Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, 3rd edition (Princeton, 1969), 543–544 (text A) and 544–545 (text B). The crucial sections of several of the texts are translated and discussed in the Harris article (see note 7).