Leviticus 5:4
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4 ‘Or if a person [a]swears, speaking thoughtlessly with his lips (A)to do evil or (B)to do good, whatever it is that a man may pronounce by an oath, and he is unaware of it—when he realizes it, then he shall be guilty in any of these matters.
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- Leviticus 5:4 vows
Ecclesiastes 5:2-6
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2 Do not be (A)rash with your mouth,
And let not your heart utter anything hastily before God.
For God is in heaven, and you on earth;
Therefore let your words (B)be few.
3 For a dream comes through much activity,
And (C)a fool’s voice is known by his many words.
4 (D)When you make a vow to God, do not delay to (E)pay it;
For He has no pleasure in fools.
Pay what you have vowed—
5 (F)Better not to vow than to vow and not pay.
6 Do not let your (G)mouth cause your flesh to sin, (H)nor say before the messenger of God that it was an error. Why should God be angry at your [a]excuse and destroy the work of your hands?
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- Ecclesiastes 5:6 Lit. voice
Acts 23:12
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12 And when it was day, (A)some of the Jews banded together and bound themselves under an oath, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had (B)killed Paul.
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Mark 6:23
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23 He also swore to her, (A)“Whatever you ask me, I will give you, up to half my kingdom.”
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1 Samuel 25:22
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22 (A)May God do so, and more also, to the enemies of David, if I (B)leave (C)one male of all who belong to him by morning light.”
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Judges 11:31
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31 then it will be that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the people of Ammon, (A)shall surely be the Lord’s, (B)and I will offer it up as a burnt offering.”
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Numbers 30:8
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8 But if her husband (A)overrules her on the day that he hears it, he shall make void her vow which she took and what she uttered with her lips, by which she bound herself, and the Lord will release her.
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Matthew 14:9
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9 And the king was sorry; nevertheless, because of the oaths and because of those who sat with him, he commanded it to be given to her.
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Matthew 14:7
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7 Therefore he promised with an oath to give her whatever she might ask.
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Ezekiel 17:18-19
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18 Since he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, and in fact (A)gave[a] his hand and still did all these things, he shall not escape.’ ”
19 Therefore thus says the Lord God: “As I live, surely My oath which he despised, and My covenant which he broke, I will recompense on his own head.
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- Ezekiel 17:18 Took an oath
Psalm 132:2-5
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2 How he swore to the Lord,
(A)And vowed to (B)the Mighty One of Jacob:
3 “Surely I will not go into the chamber of my house,
Or go up to the comfort of my bed;
4 I will (C)not give sleep to my eyes
Or slumber to my eyelids,
5 Until I (D)find a place for the Lord,
A dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob.”
2 Kings 6:31
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31 Then he said, (A)“God do so to me and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat remains on him today!”
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2 Samuel 21:7
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7 But the king spared (A)Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of (B)the Lord’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
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1 Samuel 24:21-22
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21 (A)Therefore swear now to me by the Lord (B)that you will not cut off my descendants after me, and that you will not destroy my name from my father’s house.”
22 So David swore to Saul. And Saul went home, but David and his men went up to (C)the stronghold.
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1 Samuel 14:24-28
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Saul’s Rash Oath
24 And the men of Israel were distressed that day, for Saul had (A)placed the people under oath, saying, “Cursed is the man who eats any food until evening, before I have taken vengeance on my enemies.” So none of the people tasted food. 25 (B)Now all the people of the land came to a forest; and there was (C)honey on the ground. 26 And when the people had come into the woods, there was the honey, dripping; but no one put his hand to his mouth, for the people feared the oath. 27 But Jonathan had not heard his father charge the people with the oath; therefore he stretched out the end of the rod that was in his hand and dipped it in a honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his [a]countenance brightened. 28 Then one of the people said, “Your father strictly charged the people with an oath, saying, ‘Cursed is the man who eats food this day.’ ” And the people were faint.
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- 1 Samuel 14:27 Lit. eyes
1 Samuel 1:11
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11 Then she (A)made a vow and said, “O Lord of hosts, if You will indeed (B)look on the affliction of Your maidservant and (C)remember me, and not forget Your maidservant, but will give Your maidservant a male child, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and (D)no razor shall come upon his head.”
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Judges 21:18
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18 However, we cannot give them wives from our daughters, (A)for the children of Israel have sworn an oath, saying, ‘Cursed be the one who gives a wife to Benjamin.’ ”
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Judges 21:7
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7 What shall we do for wives for those who remain, seeing we have sworn by the Lord that we will not give them our daughters as wives?”
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Judges 9:19
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19 if then you have acted in truth and sincerity with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then (A)rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you.
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Joshua 9:15
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15 So Joshua (A)made peace with them, and made a covenant with them to let them live; and the rulers of the congregation swore to them.
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Joshua 2:14
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14 So the men answered her, “Our lives for yours, if none of you tell this business of ours. And it shall be, when the Lord has given us the land, that (A)we will deal kindly and truly with you.”
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Numbers 30:6
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6 “If indeed she takes a husband, while bound by her vows or by a rash utterance from her lips by which she bound herself,
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Leviticus 27:2-34
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2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: (A)‘When a man [a]consecrates by a vow certain persons to the Lord, according to your [b]valuation, 3 if your valuation is of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old, then your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver, (B)according to the shekel of the sanctuary. 4 If it is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels; 5 and if from five years old up to twenty years old, then your valuation for a male shall be twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels; 6 and if from a month old up to five years old, then your valuation for a male shall be five shekels of silver, and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver; 7 and if from sixty years old and above, if it is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
8 ‘But if he is too poor to pay your valuation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall set a value for (C)him; according to the ability of him who vowed, the priest shall value him.
9 ‘If it is an animal that men may bring as an offering to the Lord, all that anyone gives to the Lord shall be holy. 10 He shall not substitute it or exchange it, good for bad or bad for good; and if he at all exchanges animal for animal, then both it and the one exchanged for it shall be (D)holy. 11 If it is an unclean animal which they do not offer as a sacrifice to the Lord, then he shall present the animal before the priest; 12 and the priest shall set a value for it, whether it is good or bad; as you, the priest, value it, so it shall be. 13 (E)But if he wants at all to redeem it, then he must add one-fifth to your valuation.
14 ‘And when a man [c]dedicates his house to be holy to the Lord, then the priest shall set a value for it, whether it is good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand. 15 If he who dedicated it wants to [d]redeem his house, then he must add one-fifth of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall be his.
16 ‘If a man [e]dedicates to the Lord part of a field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it. A homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver. 17 If he dedicates his field from the Year of Jubilee, according to your valuation it shall stand. 18 But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall (F)reckon to him the money due according to the years that remain till the Year of Jubilee, and it shall be deducted from your valuation. 19 And if he who dedicates the field ever wishes to redeem it, then he must add one-fifth of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall belong to him. 20 But if he does not want to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed anymore; 21 but the field, (G)when it is released in the Jubilee, shall be holy to the Lord, as a (H)devoted field; it shall be (I)the possession of the priest.
22 ‘And if a man dedicates to the Lord a field which he has bought, which is not the field of (J)his possession, 23 then the priest shall reckon to him the worth of your valuation, up to the Year of Jubilee, and he shall give your valuation on that day as a holy offering to the Lord. 24 (K)In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to the one who owned the land as a possession. 25 And all your valuations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: (L)twenty gerahs to the shekel.
26 ‘But the (M)firstborn of the animals, which should be the Lord’s firstborn, no man shall dedicate; whether it is an ox or sheep, it is the Lord’s. 27 And if it is an unclean animal, then he shall redeem it according to your valuation, and (N)shall add one-fifth to it; or if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.
28 (O)‘Nevertheless no [f]devoted offering that a man may devote to the Lord of all that he has, both man and beast, or the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted offering is most holy to the Lord. 29 (P)No person under the ban, who may become doomed to destruction among men, shall be redeemed, but shall surely be put to death. 30 And (Q)all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord’s. It is holy to the Lord. 31 (R)If a man wants at all to redeem any of his tithes, he shall add one-fifth to it. 32 And concerning the tithe of the herd or the flock, of whatever (S)passes under the rod, the tenth one shall be holy to the Lord. 33 He shall not inquire whether it is good or bad, (T)nor shall he exchange it; and if he exchanges it at all, then both it and the one exchanged for it shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.’ ”
34 (U)These are the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses for the children of Israel on Mount (V)Sinai.
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- Leviticus 27:2 Or makes a difficult or extraordinary vow
- Leviticus 27:2 appraisal
- Leviticus 27:14 sets apart
- Leviticus 27:15 buy back
- Leviticus 27:16 sets apart
- Leviticus 27:28 Given exclusively and irrevocably
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