rent his clothes

Genesis 37:29, 30, 34, 35
When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes, . . .

Genesis 42:36-38
Their father Jacob said to them, "You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is no more. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is happening against me!" . . .

2 Samuel 13:30, 31
While they were on the way, a report reached David: "Absalom has struck down all the king's sons; not one of them is left!" . . .

2 Samuel 18:33
The king was shaken and went up to the gate chamber and wept. And as he walked, he cried out, "O my son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!"

Job 1:20
Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped,

have opened

Leviticus 27:28, 29
Nothing that a man sets apart to the LORD from all he owns--whether a man, an animal, or his inherited land--can be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is most holy to the LORD. . . .

Numbers 30:2-5
If a man makes a vow to the LORD or swears an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he must not break his word; he must do everything he has promised. . . .

Psalm 15:4
who despises the vile but honors those who fear the LORD, who does not revise a costly oath,

Ecclesiastes 5:2-6
Do not be hasty to speak, and do not let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God. After all, God is in heaven and you are on earth. So let your words be few. . . .

I cannot

Judges 21:1-7
Now the men of Israel had sworn an oath at Mizpah, saying, "Not one of us will give his daughter in marriage to a Benjamite." . . .

1 Samuel 14:44, 45
And Saul declared "May God punish me, and ever so severely, if you, Jonathan, do not surely die!" . . .

Matthew 14:7-9
so much that he promised with an oath to give to her whatever she asked. . . .

Acts 23:14
They went to the chief priests and elders and said, "We have bound ourselves with a solemn oath not to eat anything until we have killed Paul.