Hai Elohim^* – The Oath of Oaths

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But behold I said unto them that: As the Lord liveth, and as we live, we will not go down unto our father in the wilderness until we have accomplished the thing which the Lord hath commanded us.

Book of Mormon   1 Nephi 3:15

The Oath of Oaths is no longer spoken

Hai Elohim was its ancient name

“As the Lord liveth” was the token

Binding all within its claim

“As the Lord liveth, and as we live”

The strongest oath man could proclaim

Was the most solemn vow to give

Before the Lord with His holy name

The oath to God bestowed

A covenant not lightly spoke

A vow to pay what was owed

Or God’s wrath He would invoke

Hai Elohim is no longer employed

As a promise to our fellow man

But our words are null and void

If our vows are made of sand

May our word be a spoken covenant

A sacred vow that’s certain and sure

A Hai Elohim from a Godly servant

A holy testament whose words endure

^*Note: For thousands of years the Hai Elohim was the one thing

that was most sacred and inviolable among the Middle Eastern desert people and their descendants. 

There are at least 45 invocations of the Hai Elohim in sacred scripture – primarily in the Old Testament.

Larry Doyle Crenshaw