Thematic Bible: Permitted in bearing witness
Thematic Bible
Oaths » Permitted in bearing witness
{And then}, if they diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, '{as Yahweh lives},' even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they will live in the midst of my people.
the oath of Yahweh will be between the two of them [concerning] whether or not he has reached out his hand to his neighbor's possession, and its owner will accept [this], and he will not make restitution.
Then the priest will make her swear an oath, and he will say to the woman, "If a man has not slept with you, and if you have not had an impurity affair under your husband, go unpunished from the waters of bitterness that brings this curse.
"You shall fear Yahweh your God, and you shall serve him, and by his name you shall swear.
[If] a man sins against his neighbor and he pronounces an oath against him to curse him, and the curse comes before your altar in this house,