Deuteronomy 4:26 (KJV)

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I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it ye shall not prolong your days upon it but shall utterly be destroyed

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I call heaven.A most solemn method of adjuration, in use among all the nations in the world; God and man being called upon to bear testimony to the truth of what was spoken, that if there was any flaw or insincerity it might be detected, and if any crime, it might not go unpunished. Such appeals to God shew at once the origin and use of oaths. De 30:18 De 30:19 De 31:28 De 32:1 Isa 1:2 Jer 2:12 Jer 6:19 Jer 22:29 Eze 36:4 Mic 1:2 Mic 6:2

ye shall. De 29:28 Le 18:28 Le 26:31-35 Jos 23:16 Isa 6:11 Isa 24:1-3 Jer 44:22 Eze 33:28 Lu 21:24

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