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Revised Standard Version

Leviticus 19:12

And you shall not swear by my name falsely, and so profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.

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.
Complete Jewish Bible
Do not swear by my name falsely, which would be profaning the name of your God; I am Adonai .
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.
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 "You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. 12 And you shall not swear by my name falsely, and so profane the name of your God: I am the LORD. 13 "You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning. 14 You shall not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God: I am the LORD. 15 "You shall do no injustice in judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor. 16 You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand forth against the life of your neighbor: I am the LORD. 17 "You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason with your neighbor, lest you bear sin because of him. 18 You shall not take vengeance or bear any grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.

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
Then the LORD said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.
Genesis 19:14
So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, "Up, get out of this place; for the LORD is about to destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be jesting.
Genesis 19:17
And when they had brought them forth, they said, "Flee for your life; do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley; flee to the hills, lest you be consumed."
Genesis 19:22
Make haste, escape there; for I can do nothing till you arrive there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zo'ar.
Genesis 19:23
The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zo'ar.
Numbers 16:26
And he said to the congregation, "Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be swept away with all their sins."
Jeremiah 32:39
I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for their own good and the good of their children after them.
2 Peter 2:7
and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the licentiousness of the wicked
2 Peter 2:9
then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trial, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,
Revelation 18:4
Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in 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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