And you shall not swear by My name for falsehood, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am Jehovah.

And the son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name and cursed; and so they brought him to Moses. (His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)

And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying: Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.

You shall not take the name of Jehovah your God in vain, for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.

Offer to God thanksgiving, and make good your vows to the Most High,

But to the wicked God says, What is it you do, to declare My Statutes, and to take up My Covenant in your mouth;

lest I be full and deny You and say, Who is Jehovah? Or lest I be poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.

And you shall swear, Jehovah lives, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in Him, and in Him they shall glory.

Again, you have heard that it was said to those of old, You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform your oaths to the Lord.

nor by the earth, for it is His footstool; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.

But let your word be Yes, yes; No, no. For whatever is more than these is from evil.

Woe to you, blind guides, who say, Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple is a debtor.

And, Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it is a debtor.

Therefore he who swears by the altar, swears by it and by all things on it.

And he who swears by Heaven, swears by the throne of God and by Him who sits on it.

But Jesus kept silent. And the high priest answered and said to Him, I adjure You by the living God: Tell us if You are the Christ, the Son of God!

Jesus said to him, You said it. Nevertheless, I say to you, Hereafter you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.

Moreover I call God as witness against my soul, that to spare you I came no more to Corinth.

For men indeed swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is for them an end of all dispute.

Thus God, determining to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, pledged it by an oath,

But above all things, my brethren, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath. But let your Yes, be Yes, and your No, No, so that you do not fall under condemnation.

Now therefore, I beg you, swear to me by Jehovah, since I have shown you kindness, that you also will show kindness to my father's house, and give me a true token,

And the men said to her: We will be exempt from this oath of yours which you have made us swear,

This we will do to them: We will let them live, that wrath not be upon us because of the oath which we have sworn to them.

Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David besought the face of Jehovah. And Jehovah answered, It is because of Saul and his bloody house, because he had killed the Gibeonites.

So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites. The children of Israel had sworn peace to them, but Saul had sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah.)

Now therefore, do not hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man and know what you ought to do to him; but bring his gray hair down to the grave with blood.