People swear by someone greater than themselves, and the oath confirms what is said and puts an end to all argument.

人都是指着比自己大的起誓，并且以起誓为实据，了结各样的争论。

人都是指着比自己大的起誓，并且以起誓作保证，了结各样的争论。

人都是指着比自己大的起誓，并且以起誓作保证，了结各样的争论。

人总是指着比自己更大的起誓，并用誓言作保证，了结各样的争论。

因为人起誓都是指着比自己大的起誓。这誓言就了结了他们中间的一切纠纷，作为保证。

人本来指着比自己更大的起誓；对他们，所起的誓就是了结一切争执的确据；

人都是指着比自己大的起誓，並且以起誓為實據，了結各樣的爭論。

人都是指着比自己大的起誓，並且以起誓作保證，了結各樣的爭論。

人都是指着比自己大的起誓，並且以起誓作保證，了結各樣的爭論。

人總是指著比自己更大的起誓，並用誓言作保證，了結各樣的爭論。

因為人起誓都是指著比自己大的起誓。這誓言就了結了他們中間的一切糾紛，作為保證。

人都是指着比自己大的來起誓；起誓對於他們就了結了一切的爭辯，可做確定的保證。

人本來指著比自己更大的起誓；對他們，所起的誓就是了結一切爭執的確據；

蓋人必指大於己者而誓、凡有爭辯、則誓以定之、

凡人之誓、必指大於己者、誓所以堅其信、而違言息矣、

凡人立誓、必指大於己者而誓、既立誓、則事定、而爭辯皆息、

夫人之立誓、必憑大於己者、所以昭慎重而杜爭議也。

People promise things by someone greater than themselves. Giving your word makes a promise certain. It puts an end to all arguing.

For people swear by something greater than themselves, and in all their disputes an oath is final for confirmation.

Now when people take an oath, they call on someone greater than themselves to hold them to it. And without any question that oath is binding.

For people swear by something greater than themselves, and for them a confirming oath ends every dispute.

For people swear an oath by one greater than themselves, and with them an oath serving as confirmation is an end of every dispute.

For men indeed swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is for them an end of all dispute.

For men swear by the greater: and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation.

For men swear by something greater than themselves, and for them a confirming oath ends every dispute.

For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation[ is] to them an end of all strife.

For people swear by something greater than themselves, and the oath serves as a confirmation to end all dispute.

For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation.

the issue between them will be settled by the taking of an oath before the Lord that the neighbor did not lay hands on the other person’s property. The owner is to accept this, and no restitution is required.

“‘ As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, he shall die in Babylon, in the land of the king who put him on the throne, whose oath he despised and whose treaty he broke.Pharaoh with his mighty army and great horde will be of no help to him in war, when ramps are built and siege works erected to destroy many lives.He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Because he had given his hand in pledge and yet did all these things, he shall not escape.“‘ Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: As surely as I live, I will repay him for despising my oath and breaking my covenant.I will spread my net for him, and he will be caught in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon and execute judgment on him there because he was unfaithful to me.

When God made his promise to Abraham, since there was no one greater for him to swear by, he swore by himself,

But Abram said to the king of Sodom,“ With raised hand I have sworn an oath to the Lord, God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,

Now swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or my descendants. Show to me and the country where you now reside as a foreigner the same kindness I have shown to you.”

May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” So Jacob took an oath in the name of the Fear of his father Isaac.

He replied,“ Accept these seven lambs from my hand as a witness that I dug this well.”So that place was called Beersheba, because the two men swore an oath there.

Therefore, anyone who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it.And anyone who swears by the temple swears by it and by the one who dwells in it.And anyone who swears by heaven swears by God’s throne and by the one who sits on it.

Then Joshua made a treaty of peace with them to let them live, and the leaders of the assembly ratified it by oath.Three days after they made the treaty with the Gibeonites, the Israelites heard that they were neighbors, living near them.So the Israelites set out and on the third day came to their cities: Gibeon, Kephirah, Beeroth and Kiriath Jearim.But the Israelites did not attack them, because the leaders of the assembly had sworn an oath to them by the Lord, the God of Israel. The whole assembly grumbled against the leaders,but all the leaders answered,“ We have given them our oath by the Lord, the God of Israel, and we cannot touch them now.This is what we will do to them: We will let them live, so that God’s wrath will not fall on us for breaking the oath we swore to them.”

The king summoned the Gibeonites and spoke to them.( Now the Gibeonites were not a part of Israel but were survivors of the Amorites; the Israelites had sworn to spare them, but Saul in his zeal for Israel and Judah had tried to annihilate them.)