20  Behold, whosoever will maintain this title upon the land, let them come forth in the strength of the Lord, and ^aenter into a covenant that they will maintain their rights, and their religion, that the Lord God may bless them.

  3  And I will make thee ^aswear by the Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:

  6  And those who were desirous that Pahoran should remain chief judge over the land took upon them the name of freemen; and thus was the division among them, for the freemen had sworn or ^ccovenanted to maintain their rights and the privileges of their religion by a free government.