{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/fbe/fbe156.htm","path":"bib/fbe/fbe156.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/fbe/fbe156.htm","text":"The Forgotten Books of Eden, by Rutherford H. Platt, Jr., [1926]\nEnoch instructs his sons not to swear either by heaven or earth, and shows God's promise, even in the mother's womb.\nI SWEAR to you, my children, but I swear not by any oath, neither by heaven nor by earth, nor by any other creature which God created.\n2 The Lord said: 'There is no oath in me, nor injustice, but truth.'\n3 If there is no truth in men, let them swear by the words 'yea, yea,' or else, 'nay, nay!\n4 And I swear to you, yea, yea, that there has been no man in his mother's womb, but that already before, even to each one there is a place prepared for the repose of the soul, and a measure\nfixed how much it is intended that a man be tried in this world.\n5 Yea, children, deceive not yourselves, for there has been previously prepared a place for every soul of man.","title":"The Forgotten Books of Eden: The Book of the Secrets of Enoch: Chapter XLIX","type":"page"}