Should Oaths be Made?
A:1 Oaths, should they be taken?
It has been said "Do not be false in your oath, but complete to YHWH your vow." For the Torah says: "And you shall not swear by My Name falsely, so that you profane the Name of your Elohim: I am YHWH." (Lev. 19:12) And: "When a man vows a vow unto YHWH, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word: he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth." (Num. 3 (30:2)). And: "When you shall vow a vow unto YHWH your Elohim, you shall not be slack to pay it. For YHWH your Elohim, will surely require it of you, and it will be sin in you. But if you shall forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in you. That which is gone out of your lips, you shall observe and do, according as you have vowed freely unto YHWH your Elohim--even that which you have promised with your mouth." (Deut. 22 (23:21)- 24 (23:23))
Yeshua Ben Sira said:
" Hear, O ye children, the discipline of the mouth: he that keepeth it shall never be taken in his lips. The sinner shall be left in his foolishness: both the evil speaker and the proud shall fall thereby. Accustom not thy mouth to swearing; neither use thyself to the naming of the Holy One. For as a servant that is continually beaten shall not be without a blue mark: so he that sweareth and nameth God continually shall not be faultless. A man that useth much swearing shall be filled with iniquity, and the plague shall never depart from his house: if he shall offend, his sin shall be upon him: and if he acknowledge not his sin, he maketh a double offence: and if he swear in vain, he shall not
be innocent, but his house shall be full of calamities. There is a word that is clothed about with death: God grant that it be not found in the heritage of Jacob; for all such things shall be far from the godly, and they shall not wallow in their sins. Use not thy mouth to intemperate swearing, for therein is the word of sin. Remember thy father and thy mother, when thou sittest among great men. Be not forgetful before them, and so thou by thy custom become a fool, and wish that thou hadst not been born, and curse they day of thy nativity. The man that is accustomed to opprobrious words will never be reformed
all the days of his life." (Sira 23:7-15)
The Essenes taught:
"A man must not swear either by Aleph and Lamedh (Elohim) or by Aleph and Daleth (Adonai) Swearing is to be avoided. It is worse than perjury; he who cannot be believed without [swearing by] Elohim, is already condemned." (Damascus Document Col. 15, 1 & Josephus; Wars; 2:8:6)
Yeshua the Messiah taught:
"You shall not swear by a confirming word--not by heaven, for it is Elohim's throne, And not by the earth, for it is the footstool of His feet, and not by Yerushalayim, for it is the city of the great king. And you shall not swear by your head, in that you have no power to whiten one hair or turn it black again. But let your words be, Yes, yes; No, no: for whatever is more than these words, is of evil." (Matt. 5:34-37)
Yakov HaTzadik first Nasi of the Nazarene Sanhedrin taught:
"Before every thing [else] my brothers, do not swear: neither by heaven nor by earth, not even by another oath. On the contrary, let your word be yes, yes, and no, no, lest you should be condemned under judgment." (Ya'akov 5:12)
It has been said "Do not be false in your oath, but complete to YHWH your vow." For the Torah says: "And you shall not swear by My Name falsely, so that you profane the Name of your Elohim: I am YHWH." (Lev. 19:12) And: "When a man vows a vow unto YHWH, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word: he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth." (Num. 3 (30:2)). And: "When you shall vow a vow unto YHWH your Elohim, you shall not be slack to pay it. For YHWH your Elohim, will surely require it of you, and it will be sin in you. But if you shall forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in you. That which is gone out of your lips, you shall observe and do, according as you have vowed freely unto YHWH your Elohim--even that which you have promised with your mouth." (Deut. 22 (23:21)- 24 (23:23))
Yeshua Ben Sira said:
" Hear, O ye children, the discipline of the mouth: he that keepeth it shall never be taken in his lips. The sinner shall be left in his foolishness: both the evil speaker and the proud shall fall thereby. Accustom not thy mouth to swearing; neither use thyself to the naming of the Holy One. For as a servant that is continually beaten shall not be without a blue mark: so he that sweareth and nameth God continually shall not be faultless. A man that useth much swearing shall be filled with iniquity, and the plague shall never depart from his house: if he shall offend, his sin shall be upon him: and if he acknowledge not his sin, he maketh a double offence: and if he swear in vain, he shall not
be innocent, but his house shall be full of calamities. There is a word that is clothed about with death: God grant that it be not found in the heritage of Jacob; for all such things shall be far from the godly, and they shall not wallow in their sins. Use not thy mouth to intemperate swearing, for therein is the word of sin. Remember thy father and thy mother, when thou sittest among great men. Be not forgetful before them, and so thou by thy custom become a fool, and wish that thou hadst not been born, and curse they day of thy nativity. The man that is accustomed to opprobrious words will never be reformed
all the days of his life." (Sira 23:7-15)
The Essenes taught:
"A man must not swear either by Aleph and Lamedh (Elohim) or by Aleph and Daleth (Adonai) Swearing is to be avoided. It is worse than perjury; he who cannot be believed without [swearing by] Elohim, is already condemned." (Damascus Document Col. 15, 1 & Josephus; Wars; 2:8:6)
Yeshua the Messiah taught:
"You shall not swear by a confirming word--not by heaven, for it is Elohim's throne, And not by the earth, for it is the footstool of His feet, and not by Yerushalayim, for it is the city of the great king. And you shall not swear by your head, in that you have no power to whiten one hair or turn it black again. But let your words be, Yes, yes; No, no: for whatever is more than these words, is of evil." (Matt. 5:34-37)
Yakov HaTzadik first Nasi of the Nazarene Sanhedrin taught:
"Before every thing [else] my brothers, do not swear: neither by heaven nor by earth, not even by another oath. On the contrary, let your word be yes, yes, and no, no, lest you should be condemned under judgment." (Ya'akov 5:12)
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