“‘You shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.
⛓ Read Leviticus 19 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Quotation1
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
'You shall not swear by my name falsely' — direct source for 'you shall not swear falsely.'
High confidenceAllusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Do not swear… let your yes be yes' rests on 'you shall not swear by my name falsely,' the Holiness-Code regulation of oaths that James radicalizes into avoiding oaths altogether.
High confidence"You shall not swear by my name falsely" grounds the whole oath casuistry of vv16-22; the Pharisaic gradations of binding vs. non-binding oaths violate the simple seriousness of vowing.
Medium confidence