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And it wasn't that they were... Cussing.
They were mistreating each other.
They weren't doing right by each other.
Well, what's interesting is when you make an oath by the name of Yahweh, what you really are doing is you're... Yeah, you're borrowing credit from Yahweh's...
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You're borrowing from Yahweh's reputation.
So you are using his name, but for the purpose of calling up his reputation and saying, hey, you know Yahweh is faithful and good.
And so trust me, because I'm going to bring Yahweh's name into this, meaning his reputation into this.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's a good way to put it.
And so the danger, if you're going to be deceitful by doing that, you are tarnishing or abusing.
It seems like deceptive is a word that works for both.
Like you can deceive with a lie, but then you can also be deceived by something's value.
You can think, oh, this person's going to rescue me, but that was a deception because they can't.
That's interesting.
So Shav is pointing to the purpose of something.