In the Hebrew Bible, as well as in the Ancient Near East and throughout classical antiquity more generally, an oath is a conditional self-curse invoking deities that are asked to inflict punishment on the oath-breaker. The object of the command "thou shalt not take in vain" is את־שם־יהוה אלהיך et-shem-YHWH eloheikha this-same name of YHWH, thy elohim', making explicit that the commandment is against the misuse of the proper name Yahweh specifically. Many scholars also believe the commandment applies to the casual use of God's name in interjections and curses (blasphemy). Hebrew Bible passages also refer to God's name being profaned by hypocritical behavior of people and false representation of God's words or character. Other scholars believe the original intent was to prohibit using the name in the magical practice of conjuration. Some have interpreted the commandment to be against perjury, since invoking God's name in an oath was considered a guarantee of the truth of a statement or promise. The expression "to take in vain" is also translated less literally as "to misuse" or variants. The word here translated as "in vain" is שוא ( shav' 'emptiness', 'vanity', 'emptiness of speech', 'lying'), while 'take' is נשא nasa' 'to lift', 'carry', 'bear', 'take', 'take away' (appearing in the second person as תשא). The Hebrew לא תשא לשוא is translated as "thou shalt not take in vain".
2.3 In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.God himself is presented as swearing by his own name ("As surely as I live …") to guarantee the certainty of various events foretold through the prophets. In the Hebrew Bible itself, the commandment is directed against abuse of the name of God, not against any use there are numerous examples in the Hebrew Bible and a few in the New Testament where God's name is called upon in oaths to tell the truth or to support the truth of the statement being sworn to, and the books of Daniel and Revelation include instances where an angel sent by God invokes the name of God to support the truth of apocalyptic revelations.
īased on this commandment, Second Temple Judaism by the Hellenistic period developed a taboo of pronouncing the name Yahweh at all, resulting in the replacement of the Tetragrammaton by "Adonai" (literally "my lords" – see Adonai) in pronunciation. Thou shalt not take the name of the L ORD thy God in vain for the L ORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. " Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain" ( Hebrew: לֹא תִשָּׂא אֶת-שֵׁם-ה' אֱלֹהֶיךָ לַשָּׁוְא) ( KJV also "You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God" ( NRSV) and variants) is the second or third (depending on numbering) of God's Ten Commandments to man in the Abrahamic religions.
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