If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath be laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath come before Thine altar in this house. the reference being to the practise of having men swear by or before the altar, where witnesses were not available, Matthew 23:20, the oath in that case being equal to an imprecation calling down the curse of God in the event of a false oath,

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