Then Peter began to swear, with most solemn imprecations: "I do not know the man." At that moment a cock crowed;

But he began to swear with the most solemn imprecations: "I do not know the man you are speaking about."

Then as soon as it was day, some of the Jews forming a conspiracy, bound themselves under the direst imprecation, declaring that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.

So they came to the high-priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves by the direst imprecation, to taste nothing till we have killed Paul.