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וטעם ולא תשבעו בשמי לשקר. אחר לא תגנובו כי החשוד בגנבה ופקדון ישבע. וטעם תשבעו. להכניס המשביע: [AND YE SHALL NOT SWEAR BY MY NAME FALSELY.] This follows Ye shall not steal, for the one who is suspected of theft and dealing falsely with regard to a deposit swears.45See Lev. 5:20-25. Scripture employs the plural ye shall not swear because it wants to include the one who causes an oath to be taken.46One is not permitted to concoct a story and force someone to take an unnecessary oath (Krinsky).
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וטעם וחללת. שהנשבע לשקר מכחש השם כאשר פירשתיו: Scripture reads, so that thou profane the name of thy God because, as I have noted,47See I.E. on Ex. 20:7 (Vol. 2, pp. 423-425). the one who swears falsely denies God.