“Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.”
And do not take an oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black. The final oath-form addressed is the personal oath — swearing by one's own head. The prohibition is grounded in the observation that one does not control one's own head: you cannot make one hair white or black. The logic is the same as for the cosmic oaths: swearing by anything that is ultimately God's possession is swearing by God, and the oath therefore should be replaced by simple honest speech.
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