Deut 4:26

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I call heaven.

A most solemn method of adjuration, in use among all the nations in the world; God and man being called upon to bear testimony to the truth of what was spoken, that if there was any flaw or insincerity it might be detected, and if any crime, it might not go unpunished.

Such appeals to God shew at once the origin and use of oaths.

Deut 30:18; Deut 30:19; Deut 31:28; Deut 32:1; Isa 1:2; Jer 2:12; Jer 6:19; Jer 22:29; Ezek 36:4

Mic 1:2; Mic 6:2

ye shall.

Deut 29:28; Lev 18:28; Lev 26:31-35; Josh 23:16; Isa 6:11; Isa 24:1-3; Jer 44:22

Ezek 33:28; Luke 21:24