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Complete Jewish Bible

Leviticus 19:12

Do not swear by my name falsely, which would be profaning the name of your God; I am Adonai .

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blasphemy;   Falsehood;   False Teachers;   God;   Oath;   Perjury;   Quotations and Allusions;   Thompson Chain Reference - Blasphemy-Profanity;   Courts;   Oaths;   Perjury;   Profanity;   Swearing;   The Topic Concordance - Name;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Swearing Falsely;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Oath;   Weights;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   God, Names of;   Love;   Punishment;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Gaal;   Matthew, the Gospel According to;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ethics;   Leviticus;   Oaths;   Pentateuch;   Perjury;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the Old Testament;   Congregation, Assembly;   Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Hexateuch;   Holiness;   Law;   Poverty;   Priests and Levites;   Sanctification, Sanctify;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Oaths;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Oath;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Oath,;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Crime;   Law in the New Testament;   Leviticus;   Name;   Oath;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Bebai;   Commandments, the 613;   Ethics;   Perjury;   Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
You shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.
King James Version
And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord .
Lexham English Bible
and you shall not swear falsely in my name, and so one of you profane the name of your God; I am Yahweh.
New Century Version
You must not make a false promise by my name, or you will show that you don't respect your God. I am the Lord .
New English Translation
You must not swear falsely in my name, so that you do not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord .
Amplified Bible
'You shall not swear [an oath] falsely by My name, so as to profane the name of your God; I am the LORD.
New American Standard Bible
'And you shall not swear falsely by My name, so as to profane the name of your God; I am the LORD.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Also yee shall not sweare by my name falsely, neither shalt thou defile the name of thy God: I am the Lord.
Legacy Standard Bible
And you shall not swear falsely by My name, so as to profane the name of your God; I am Yahweh.
Contemporary English Version
Do not misuse my name by making promises you don't intend to keep. I am the Lord your God.
Darby Translation
And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of thy God: I am Jehovah.
Easy-to-Read Version
You must not use my name to make false promises. If you do that, you will show that you don't respect the name of your God. I am the Lord !
English Standard Version
You shall not swear by my name falsely, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord .
George Lamsa Translation
You shall not swear by my name falsely and so profane the name of your God; I am the LORD.
Good News Translation
Do not make a promise in my name if you do not intend to keep it; that brings disgrace on my name. I am the Lord your God.
Christian Standard Bible®
Do not swear falsely by my name, profaning the name of your God; I am the Lord.
Literal Translation
And you shall not swear by My name to a falsehood; nor shall you pollute the name of your God; I am Jehovah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Ye shal not sweare falsely by my name, & so to vnhalowe the name of thy God: for I am the LORDE.
American Standard Version
And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of thy God: I am Jehovah.
Bible in Basic English
And do not take an oath in my name falsely, putting shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Ye shall not sweare by my name falsely, neither shalt thou defile the name of thy God: I am the Lorde.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And ye shall not swear by My name falsely, so that thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.
King James Version (1611)
And ye shall not sweare by my Name falsly, neither shalt thou prophane the Name of thy God: I am the Lord.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And ye shall not swear unjustly by my name, and ye shall not profane the holy name of your God: I am the Lord your God.
English Revised Version
And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, so that thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.
Berean Standard Bible
You must not swear falsely by My name and so profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thou schalt not forswere in my name, nethir thou schalt defoule the name of thi God; Y am the Lord.
Young's Literal Translation
`And ye do not swear by My name to falsehood, or thou hast polluted the name of thy God; I [am] Jehovah.
Update Bible Version
And you shall not swear by my name falsely, and [thus] you profane the name of your God: I am Yahweh.
Webster's Bible Translation
And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I [am] the LORD.
World English Bible
You shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of your God: I am Yahweh.
New King James Version
And you shall not swear by My name falsely, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.
New Living Translation
"Do not bring shame on the name of your God by using it to swear falsely. I am the Lord .
New Life Bible
Do not lie when you make a promise in My name, and so put the name of your God to shame. I am the Lord.
New Revised Standard
And you shall not swear falsely by my name, profaning the name of your God: I am the Lord .
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Nor swear by my name falsely, - And so profane the name of thy God: I, am Yahweh.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt not swear falsely by my name, nor profane the name of thy God. I am the Lord.
Revised Standard Version
And you shall not swear by my name falsely, and so profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.
THE MESSAGE
"Don't swear falsely using my name, violating the name of your God. I am God .
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'You shall not swear falsely by My name, so as to profane the name of your God; I am the LORD.

Contextual Overview

11 "‘Do not steal from, defraud or lie to each other. 12 Do not swear by my name falsely, which would be profaning the name of your God; I am Adonai . 13 Do not oppress or rob your neighbor; specifically, you are not to keep back the wages of a hired worker all night until morning. 14 "‘Do not speak a curse against a deaf person or place an obstacle in the way of a blind person; rather, fear your God; I am Adonai . 15 (RY: v, LY: ii) "‘Do not be unjust in judging — show neither partiality to the poor nor deference to the mighty, but with justice judge your neighbor. 16 "‘Do not go around spreading slander among your people, but also don't stand idly by when your neighbor's life is at stake; I am Adonai . 17 "‘Do not hate your brother in your heart, but rebuke your neighbor frankly, so that you won't carry sin because of him. 18 Don't take vengeance on or bear a grudge against any of your people; rather, love your neighbor as yourself; I am Adonai .

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

ye shall: Leviticus 6:3, Exodus 20:7, Deuteronomy 5:11, Psalms 15:4, Jeremiah 4:2, Jeremiah 7:9, Zechariah 5:4, Malachi 3:5, Matthew 5:33, Matthew 5:34, James 5:12

profane: Leviticus 18:21, Leviticus 24:11, Leviticus 24:15, Leviticus 24:16, Ezekiel 36:20-23

Reciprocal: Genesis 24:3 - swear Leviticus 21:6 - profane Leviticus 22:2 - that they profane not Deuteronomy 6:13 - shalt swear Joshua 2:17 - General Isaiah 48:1 - not in truth Jeremiah 5:2 - though Jeremiah 34:16 - polluted Zechariah 5:3 - sweareth

Cross-References

Genesis 7:1
(ii) Adonai said to Noach, "Come into the ark, you and all your household; for I have seen that you alone in this generation are righteous before me.
Genesis 19:14
Lot went out and spoke with his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters, and said, "Get up and leave this place, because Adonai is going to destroy the city." But his sons-in-law didn't take him seriously.
Genesis 19:17
When they had brought them out, he said, "Flee for your life! Don't look behind you, and don't stop anywhere in the plain, but escape to the hills! Otherwise you will be swept away."
Genesis 19:22
Hurry, and escape to that place, because I can't do anything until you arrive there." For this reason the city was named Tzo‘ar [small].
Genesis 19:23
By the time Lot had come to Tzo‘ar, the sun had risen over the land.
Numbers 16:26
There he said to the assembly, "Leave the tents of these wicked men! Don't touch anything that belongs to them, or you may be swept away in all their sins."
Jeremiah 32:39
I will give them singleness of heart and singleness of purpose, so that they will fear me forever — this will be for their own good and for the good of their children after them.
2 Peter 2:7
but he rescued Lot, a righteous man who was distressed by the debauchery of those unprincipled people;
2 Peter 2:9
So the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and how to hold the wicked until the Day of Judgment while continuing to punish them,
Revelation 18:4
Then I heard another voice out of heaven say: "My people, come out of her! so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not be infected by her plagues,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And ye shall not swear by my name falsely,.... Or "to a falsehood" x, to any of the above cases; as that a man has not the deposit of another's in his hands, when he has; or that such a man owes him so much money, when he does not, or any other false thing. Stealing, dealing falsely, lying, and false swearing, are mentioned together, as following one another, and as tending to lead on, the one to the other, as Jarchi observes;

"if thou stealest, this will lead thee on to deal falsely, and then to lie, and after that to swear;''

and who further remarks, because it may be thought a man is guilty only because of the proper name (of God he may swear by); therefore to comprehend all the surnames (or epithets of God, such as gracious, merciful, c.) it is said, "ye shall not swear by, my name falsely": every name which is mine, by which he is called and so Gersom, any epithet or attribute of his, or any word or phrase by which he is described, as he that made the heavens, or that dwelleth in the heavens, or liveth for ever and ever, and the like; and the word being of the plural number, ye shall not swear, takes in, as Aben Ezra thinks, him that causes to swear, as well as him that swears:

neither shall thou profane the name of thy God: through swearing falsely by it, or through any rash or vain oath in common conversation; not only perjury in a court of judicature, but all profane oaths, curses, and imprecations are forbidden, as breaches of the third command, which this refers to; :-:

I [am] the Lord; whose name is holy, and who can and will revenge every abuse of it in a profane way, and to the injury of men.

x לשקר "ad fallaciam ullam", Junius Tremellius, Piscator so Ainsworth.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Leviticus 19:11 forbids injuries perpetrated by craft; Leviticus 19:13, those perpetrated by violence or power, the conversion of might into right. In Leviticus 19:13 “defraud” should rather be, oppress.


 
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