Deuteronomy 32:40

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For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.

Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have sworn to the Lord

God Most High,

possessor of heaven and earth,

I will bring you to the land which I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I will give it to you for a possession; I am the Lord.’”

Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will surely do to you;

And you will swear, ‘As the Lord lives,’

In truth, in justice and in righteousness;

Then the nations will bless themselves in Him,
And in Him they will glory.”

In the same way God, desiring even more to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose, interposed with an oath,

Then the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his right hand to heaven,