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It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay. Let not your mouth lead you into sin, and do not say before the messenger[a] that it was a mistake; why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?

For when dreams increase, empty words grow many:[b] but do you fear God.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 5:6 Or angel
  2. Ecclesiastes 5:7 Or For in a multitude of dreams there is futility, and ruin in a flood of words

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