President Obama took the oath of office in January on the Bible that Abraham Lincoln owned and used at his first inauguration.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

Did I conceive all this people, did I bear them, that You should say to me, 'Carry them in your bosom as a nurse carries an infant,' to the land that You have promised on oath to their fathers?

这些人是我十月怀胎生下的吗？,您告诉我吧，如养育之父抱着吃奶的孩子’,直抱到您起誓应许他们祖宗的地方去？

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If then You slay this people to a man, the nations who have heard Your fame will say, 'It must be because the Lord was powerless to bring that people into the land He had promised them on oath that He slaughtered them in the wilderness.

如今你若把这些人杀了，那听到你名声的国家会说,耶和华因为不能把这些人领进,向他们起誓的应许之地,所以在旷野中把他们杀了。

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Presumably,he will be taking the oath of office shortly, and become the thirty-sixth president of the United States."

VOA: special.2009.08.16

And Deuteronomy is also something of a loyalty oath, except that the people are pledging their loyalty to a god rather than to a human king.

申命记也是一种忠诚试验，虽然人们是,对神宣誓他们的忠诚而不是对一个人类。

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The words of the oath are in the Constitution - all except "so help me God."

VOA: special.2009.01.19

It symbolizes the victory of the forces of life, oath and holiness over death and impurity.

这象征着生命力的胜利，誓言和神圣能够战胜死亡和不洁。

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Vice President Arthur took the oath of office a few hours after the president's death.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

She may not use God's name in a false oath, to attest to or swear by a false oath. She is to honor God's Sabbath day, and honor parental authority, which is arguably an extension of God's authority.

她不可以以上帝的名义宣假誓,她应该敬重上帝的安息日，敬重父母亲的,权威，尽管人们对它是否是上帝权威的延伸是有争议的。

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He quickly sent for a judge to give him the oath of office as President.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

Specifically you'll see that the rationale for observing the Sabbath is different. God's name in Deuteronomy 5 is not to be used in a vain oath as opposed to a false oath. There are differences in the meaning.

你会发现两者对守安息日习俗的论述是特别不同的,《申命记》第五章的描述是，不可以妄称上帝的名,而不是不可以以上帝的名义作假誓，它们表达的意思。

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The best that historians can say is that the oath has ended with "so help me God" at least since Chester Arthur's inauguration in 1881.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

There is generally a concluding invocation of witnesses, usually the gods are invoked as witnesses to a binding oath, some kind of covenantal oath that brings the treaty into effect, and it's witnessed by gods.

一般也包括一段援引见证人的文字，一般是上帝见证一个有约束力的誓言的诞生，这个誓言可以使条约生效，上帝是见证人。

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The Chief Justice of the United States then spoke the presidential oath.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

It is not because you are the most numerous of peoples that the Lord set His heart on you and chose you ; indeed, you are the smallest of peoples; but it was because the Lord favored you and kept the oath He made to your fathers that the Lord freed you with a mighty hand and rescued you from the house of bondage, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

并非因你们的人数多于别民,耶和华专爱你们，拣选你们,原来你们的人数在万民中是最少的;,只因耶和华爱你们,又因要守他向你们列祖所起的誓,就用万能的手领你们出来,从为奴之家救赎你们，脱离埃及王法老的手。

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One by one,the senators swore an oath to be just.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

There was such a large crowd that a ship's cable, a heavy rope, was stretched across the portico to separate the crowd from Jackson as he took the oath and delivered his inaugural address.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

(SAYING) In his oath for office, Mr.Orban promised to uphold the constitution and to seek God's guidance in his work.

VOA: standard.2010.05.29

Madagascar's new leader,Andry Rajoelina, takes the oath of office Saturday amid hope that his transitional government will end months of political instability.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

Mr.Orban,who was also prime minister between 1998 and 2002, took the oath Saturday after ousting the Socialist party in elections last month.

VOA: standard.2010.05.29

Sebelius was given a second, ceremonial oath of office on Friday, by Vice President Joe Biden.

VOA: standard.2009.05.01