“Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these.”
Or if anyone thoughtlessly takes an oath to do anything, whether good or evil — in any matter one might carelessly swear about — even though they are unaware of it, when they learn of it they will be guilty. The fourth case is the thoughtless oath — a commitment made without sufficient consideration of what was being promised. The oath could be to do good or to do evil; in either case, thoughtless oath-taking that results in failure to fulfill is a sin requiring the sin offering. Matthew 5:37 says let your yes be yes and your no be no — the prohibition on careless oath-taking that Jesus articulates is the New Covenant expression of the principle that Leviticus 5:4 addresses through the sin offering system.
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