"For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife."
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And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,
Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.
And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.
The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac.
And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them.
And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)
As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.
Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.
For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbor's goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.
For men at all times make their oaths by what is greater; and any argument is ended by the decision of the oath.
For men indeed swear by a greater, and with them the oath is a term to all dispute, as making matters sure.
For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all contradiction.
For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation.
for men indeed do swear by the greater, and an end of all controversy to them for confirmation `is' the oath,