Why do false oaths get folded into the same guilt-offering category as more obvious wrongs? Speech violations apparently carry the same ritual weight as physical ones here. Words, in this system, are not treated as cheaper than actions.
Legal & Ethical קול האלה הושמע [AND IF A SOUL SIN] AND HEAR THE VOICE OF AN OATH in a matter to which he was witness, i. e. that he (the person interested in the evidence) called upon him (the witness) by an oath that if he knows any evidence favourable to hi...
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