Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain

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"Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain" (KJV; also "You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God" (NRSV) and variants, Biblical Hebrew: לֹא תִשָּׂא אֶת-שֵׁם-יהוה אֱלֹהֶיךָ לַשָּׁוְא, romanized: Lōʾ ṯiśśāʾ ʾeṯ-šēm-YHWH ʾĕlōhēḵā laššāwəʾ‍) is the second or third (depending on numbering) of God's Ten Commandments to man in Judaism and Christianity. Exodus 20:7 and Deuteronomy 5:11 read: Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Based on this commandment, Second Temple Judaism by the Hellenistic period developed a taboo of pronouncing the name YHWH (reconstructed by modern scholars as Yahweh) at all, resulting in the replacement of the Tetragrammaton by "Adonai" (literally "my lord") in pronunciation. Throughout most of Jewish and Christian history, the commandment in the Hebrew Bible has been understood to be prohibiting the misuse of God's name via abusive speech...

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