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You shall fear the LORD your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name.
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Verse 13. Only. This is omitted in Heb.; but the Septuagint and Jesus Christ retain it, (Matthew 4:10,) as the sense requires. You cannot serve God and mammon. Lu. 16:13. Calmet.—Name, and not by that of idols, whenever you may be authorized to take an oath. Bible.—To swear by any other, is to acknowledge him in some sort for a god. When we take an oath on proper occasions, and with due respect and caution, we perform and act of religion. Calmet.
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