20 so that your eyes watch over this temple
day and night,
toward the place where you said
you would put your name;(A)
and so that you may hear the prayer
your servant prays toward this place.
21 Hear the petitions of your servant
and your people Israel,
which they pray toward this place.
May you hear in your dwelling place in heaven.
May you hear and forgive.
22 If a man sins against his neighbor
and is forced to take an oath[a]
and he comes to take an oath
before your altar in this temple,

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Footnotes

  1. 6:22 Lit and he lifts a curse against him to curse him

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