Ezekiel 20:15

20:15 I also swore ¹  to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them to the land I had given them – a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.

Ezekiel 20:23

20:23 I also swore ²  to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands. ³ 

Ezekiel 47:14

47:14 You must divide it equally just as I vowed to give it to your forefathers; ⁴  this land will be assigned as your inheritance. ⁵ 

Genesis 14:22

14:22 But Abram replied to the king of Sodom, “I raise my hand ⁶  to the Lord, the Most High God, Creator of heaven and earth, and vow ⁷ 

Deuteronomy 32:40

32:40 For I raise up my hand to heaven,

and say, ‘As surely as I live forever,

Revelation 10:5

10:5 Then ⁸  the angel I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven

[20:15]  ¹ tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”

[20:23]  ² tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”

[20:23]  ³ sn Though the Pentateuch does not seem to know of this episode, Ps 106:26-27 may speak of God’s oath to exile the people before they had entered Canaan.

[47:14]  ⁴ sn Gen 15:9-21.

[47:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “will fall to you as an inheritance.”

[14:22]  ⁶ tn Abram takes an oath, raising his hand as a solemn gesture. The translation understands the perfect tense as having an instantaneous nuance: “Here and now I raise my hand.”

[14:22]  ⁷ tn The words “and vow” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[10:5]  ⁸ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the vision.