בְּרִית

berit

beh-REET

covenant

Where it comes from

Hebrew does not make a covenant, it cuts one — karat berit. The idiom comes from the animals cut in half in Genesis 15, and it tells you a covenant is not a handshake.

Genesis 9:9

And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you.

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